History Main / FictionalCountry

* Durning the 2015 US primaries, Over 530 Republican voters were poll. One of the answer they were ask was if they would support or opposes the bombing of Agrabah, the city in Aladdin. 30% response that they would in fact support, while 57% said they were unsure.[[https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/18/republican-voters-bomb-agrabah-disney-aladdin-donald-trump]]

* In a recent poll, 30% of Republican voters supported the bombing of Agrabah, the city in Aladdin.

** * ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'': Wakanda is a small yet high tech nation in the center of Africa with access to [[GreenRocks Vibranium]], a super element. While its people still live in tribal lifestyle and maintain an absolute monarchy, they single handedly developed high tech capabilities and a beyond first world industrial base. While many westerners think it's odd that such a technologically advanced society is still rooted in tribalism, the Wakandans usually point out that they have a higher standard of living than most western countries ''because'' their social roots remain strong. For this reason it also retains a very isolationist stance. On the flip side, the post of king is open to KlingonPromotion. On the flip flip side, the ''current'' king happens to be Marvel's nearest analogue to [=DC's=] Franchise/{{Batman}}.

** Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom rules the tiny country of Latveria, which neighbours Hungary, Serbia and Romania. It is an absolute monarchy that has a large rural population, one airport and a single small city as its capital (Doomstadt), yet it is also one of the most [[FeudalFuture technologically advanced]] countries on the planet as Doom is a [[EmperorScientist scientific genius]] who provides for the needs of every citizen and has an army of [[MechaMooks personally designed robots]] working as soldiers, servants, police, [[RobotMe identical doubles]] and any other essential service. Doom is also ethnically Roma and Latveria prides itself on being a protectorate for the oft-persecuted Roma people. CreatorStanLee said he always liked the name "Latveria" because it sounded like a real country.

* The Marvel Universe has the fictional South-East Asian country of Sin-Cong or Siancong. It was relatively obscure until ''The History of the Marvel Universe'' by Creator/MarkWaid retconned in a decades-long war in the country over magical {{Phlebotinum}} reserves, mainly so that characters with backstories involving the Korean and Vietnam Wars could continue to have backstories related to conflict in Southeast Asia without running into ComicBookTime problems. [[spoiler:Even InUniverse, it's a case of this as it's revealed in ''ComicBook/TheMarvels'' that "Singcong" is really Shan-K'ang, an formed by an alien MotherNature GeniusLoci BackstoryInvader that copied its history from the nations around it.]]

* ''Chanda's Secrets'' and ''Chanda's Wars'' by Allen Stratton take place in a fictional sub-Saharan African country ravaged by the HIV/AIDS epidemic and civil wars.

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* ''Series/{{Ambassadors}}'' follows the lives of British diplomats in the People's Republic of Tazbekistan - a fictional Central Asian country standing in for Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, et al.

* The fictional 'presidentdom' of Groland in the eponymous satirical news show - mostly a thinly disguised parody of France.

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* In later volumes of ''Bushin'', a manga by Daichi Banjo, protagonist Ryusei goes to the Principality of Rosenbach, a fictional European country, to serve as a bodyguard for its princess named Ingram like his father did, thanks to his family skills in jujutsu. Unfortunately, the princess was a constant target of assassination and [[spoiler: his father died protecting him and the princess]]. In the end, [[spoiler: he manages to defeat his father's killer and protect the princess]].

* ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'' has Grulovia, an Eastern European {{Ruritania}} formerly ruled by an oppressive monarchy before its collapse twenty years before the game. While never visited, it features heavily in the backstory. Series protagonist Raz and his family trace their roots to it, and the founding of the Psychonauts - and thus, the entire story - was spurred on by their involvement in the incident that lead to the country's collapse. On top of that, [[spoiler: the BigBad is the missing heir to the Grulovian throne, who blames the Psychonauts for the loss of his wealth and prestige]]. However, this might be a subversion as it's not clear how much the game's universe resembles ours - the first game featured references to real-world countries and history, such as Russia, Napoleon and the American Civil War, [[EarthDrift but these references are absent from the sequel]][[note]]With the exception of Raz's BigBrotherBully Dion insulting him by calling him 'Nostra-dumbass'[[/note]], and a world map shown at various points looks distinctly fictional.

** The most famous of these is the Daevite Empire, a classic evil empire whose nobility used anomalous means to terrorize their own people, and who were so bad that the ''Sarkicists'' were the heroic rebels in comparison. They were, of course, overthrown and no trace exists in the present day- except for a book that writes them further into history when given some sort of ink. [[spoiler:Or, if you believe one article, a central Asian country called Daevastan who dealt with the evil slaveholding bit of their history ''long'' ago, but were victims of Orientalist reality-rewriting.]]

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* From DC Comics: {{Qurac}}, the TropeNamer for its particular type, home of Cheshire, and a rather unsubtle FictionalCounterpart to UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}} (pre-[[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Iraq War]], obviously), right down to its leader, [[PresidentEvil President Marlo]], who is an obvious {{expy}} of Saddam Hussein.

** [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] in the case of ComicBook/TheJoker, and his short-lived amassadorship in ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily''. In the miniseries itself, Joker is hired by the real-world Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeni to become [[UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} Iran's]] ambassador to the UN. However, the Joker's ranting about how similar he and Iran were (as well as the series touching obliquely, but noticably, on the then-current Iran-Contra Scandal) obviously left a bad taste in [=DC's=] editors' mouths. While never changed in reprints itself, any references in later books were quietly retconned to establish Joker was the UN Ambassador for Qurac.

** {{Uberwald}}: Eastern Europe as a sinister horror setting

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has a couple anomalous countries in its archives.

* TheGoodKingdom[=/=]MicroMonarchy: Theoretically anywhere in the Old World, but usually Western or Southern Europe.

* ''Film/MissionImpossible: Operation Surma'' features Yugaria, another [[{{Ruritania}} generic Balkan state]] ruled by an [[PresidentEvil evil dictator]]. The name is apparently a {{portmanteau}} of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.

* In the 1930s, democratic and socialist politicians in France received letters from dissidents in the East European nation of Poldevia asking for their support. This turned out to be a hoax perpetrated by a right-wing journalist who wanted to show them up and embarrass them and attracted a lot of attention at the time. (In the Tintin album ''The Blue Lotus'', the Poldevian Consul in Shanghai is one of the patrons of the titular opium den). One right-wing French publicist said at the beginning of World War II that young Frenchmen did not want to die for the Poldevians, apparently equating the real-world threat to Poland with the plight of a fictional country.

* The Marvel Universe has the fictional South-East Asian country of Sin-Cong or Siancong. It was relatively obscure until ''The History of the Marvel Universe'' by Creator/MarkWaid retconned in a decades-long war in the country over magical {{Phlebotinum}} reserves, mainly so that characters with backstories involving the Korean and Vietnam Wars could continue to have backstories related to conflict in Southeast Asia without running into ComicBookTime problems. [[spoiler:Even InUniverse, it's a case of this as it's revealed in ''ComicBook/TheMarvels'' that "Singcong" is really Shan-K'ang, an formed by an alien MotherNature GeniusLoci BackstoryInvader and it copied its history from the nations around it.]]

* The Marvel Universe has the fictional South-East Asian country of Sin-Cong or Siancong. It was relatively obscure until ''The History of the Marvel Universe'' by Creator/MarkWaid retconned in a decades-long war in the country over magical {{Phlebotinum}} reserves, mainly so that characters with backstories involving the Korean and Vietnam Wars could continue to have backstories related to conflict in Southeast Asia without running into ComicBookTime problems.

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** ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Ace Attorney Investigations]]'' has Republic of Zheng Fa, in Asia. Also in the same game are the European countries of the Kingdom of Allebahst and the Republic of Babahl, which used to be one country called the Principality of Cohdopia until a civil war caused a separation. The countries were going to go through a reunification until two murders, the appereance of a phantom thief, and a raging fire all occurred at the embassies during the goodwill event. [[spoiler:The reunification was able to occur after the Allebashtian ambassador was arrested and convicted.]]
** ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Spirit of Justice]]'' introduces The Asian country of Kingdom of Khura'in, on the western edge of Himalayan mountain.

* Creator/CSLewis's novel ''Literature/TillWeHaveFaces'' takes place in the fictional kingdom of Glome, which was located to the north of Greece.

* ''Franchise/MissionImpossible: Operation Surma'' features Yugaria, another [[{{Ruritania}} generic Balkan state]] ruled by an [[PresidentEvil evil dictator]]. The name is apparently a {{portmanteau}} of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria.

* Since the third installment of the series, the ''VideoGame/DarkParables'' games are at least partially spent in one of these. The formula usually has the detective arriving in a real world country, then traveling from there to a FictionalCountry. The tenth game skips the real world portion entirely and takes the detective directly to the fictional realm of Barsia.

* The Marvel Universe has the fictional South-East Asian country of Sin-Cong or Siancong. It was relatively obscure until ''The History of the Marvel Universe'' by Creator/MarkWaid retconned in a decades-long war in the country over magical {{Phlebotinum}} reserves, mainly so that characters with backstories involving the Vietnam War could continue to have backstories related to conflict in Southeast Asia without running into ComicBookTime problems.

* Academy City and the Elizarina Alliance of Independent Nations in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''. The former is an independent state in Japan and is the forefront of all science and technology in the [[TheVerse Toaruverse]], while the latter is an alliance of nations which split themselves from Russia.

* ''LightNovel/{{Gosick}}'' is set in Sauville. Sauville is a tiny French-speaking country between France and Italy. It is supposed to look like a typical western European nation.

May overlap with CommieLand, DarkestAfrica, DividedStatesOfAmerica (if [some of] the seceding states unite into a ''new'' one that is separate from the others and is ''not'' a successor to the original United States), UnitedEurope, LadyLand (if set in a [[LikeRealityUnlessNoted real-world]] setting, and especially if it's founded by the Amazons of Myth/GreekMythology), OneNationUnderCopyright (in MegaCorp–dominated settings).

* All nations in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':