Wunderland

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Wunderland is a fictional planet from Larry Niven's Known Space series. Although Niven invented the world, almost all information of it (and all of its appearances to date) take place in the Man-Kzin Wars series of books, most of which are by other authors.

Wunderland orbits Alpha Centauri, and was settled by humans in the late 21st century. It has a lower gravity than Earth. Much, if not all, of its population seems to be of Dutch extraction. It is ruled by an oligarchy; the upper-class men of Wunderland (as well as their imitators) are marked by wearing assymetrical beards, a fact that many other humans in Known Space find amusing.

At the start of the Man-Kzin Wars, Wunderland was attacked by the Kzin fleet, which it held off for several months as some of its population escaped to Earth in retrofitted colonization ships. Wunderland served as the headquarters of the Kzinti command staff, despite occasional harassment by guerilla fighters both on the ground and located in the system's asteroid belt (the "Serpent Swarms").

Sometime between the end of the Man-Kzin Wars and the setting of Ringworld, there was a revolution on Wunderland; Louis Wu was forced to fight as a rebel for three months before escaping offworld.