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List of fictional countries is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it — as opposed to inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet (see below).

Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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[edit] B

  • BabaKiueria: a country in Australia in the movie BabaKiueria
  • Babalstan: Middle Eastern country in the movie Harum Scarum
  • Babar's Kingdom
  • Backhairistan: from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius animated TV series
  • Bacteria: thinly-disguised version of Fascist Italy from the movie The Great Dictator. Bears the same name as the microorganism.
  • Bahar: gulf state from an episode of Spooks. Capital city: Bahar city.
  • Bahavia: country where Meena Paroom's father is the ambassador in the Disney Channel series, "Cory In The House".
  • Bahkan: a nation threatened by the Federated Peoples' Republic in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Fool's Gold"
  • Baki: homeland of Omio in Madeleine L'Engle's writing, a small Pacific island nation once dominated by British
  • Balinderry: strategically-placed quasi-Irish nation that is crucial to a defence radar system, but has an IRA-type insurgency, in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man
  • Balnibarbi: land containing the metropolis called Lagado from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • Baltonia: probably a Baltic country in the movie Esupai
  • Bandrika (sometimes spelled Vandreka): Eastern European Alpine country, the setting of the first part of the movie The Lady Vanishes. The language spoken in this country is an amalgamation of several European languages.
  • Bangalla: from The Phantom comic strip. The Phantom's base lies in the deep woods of this central African nation.
  • Bapetikosweti: The "homeland" state of which the South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys (under the guise of his drag character, Evita Bezuidenhout) was ambassador to South Africa. It is a word-play on the former "Bantustan" state of Bophuthatswana (unrecognised as a sovereign state by any country other than South Africa). Bophuthatswana was re-incorporated into South Africa shortly after its first democratic election on 27 April 1994, after which Uys discontinued using his parody state (claiming that Bapetikosweti too had been "re-incorporated" into South Africa).
  • Barataria: island kingdom, presumably somewhere in the Mediterranean. The setting for Act II of the operetta The Gondoliers, by Gilbert and Sullivan.
  • Barclay Islands (the Barclays): British-dependent Caribbean archipelago off the Bahamas embroiled in conflict between Castro's Cuba and the drug trade in Frederick Forsyth's novel The Deceiver.
  • Basenji: a country neighboring Russia in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie
  • Belka: a country from the Ace Combat series of video games. Highly influenced by Nazi Germany. Capital city: formerly Sudentor, currently Dinsmark.
  • Beninia: from John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar
  • Bensalem: utopian island nation located somewhere off the Western coast of the continent of America from Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis
  • Beth Ja Brin: Middle-Eastern country appearing in Danger Man
  • Betonia: European kingdom in the movie His Royal Highness (1932)
  • Birani: African nation featured in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy. Located near Namibia and Angola. Has a Banana Forest at a place called Dumgase.
  • Birdwell Island: de facto independent island community in the Clifford the Big Red Dog series similar in geography and custom to an islands off of the east coast of the United States.
  • Blecchistan: Central Asian country from The Onion article titled "Body Of Missing Mad Magazine Reporter Found In Blecchistan"
  • Blefuscu: a land where all the people are tiny from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Enemies of Lilliput
  • Bocamoa: a gold producing white supremacist African country from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Kitara"
  • Bonande: West African country in the movie La Nuit de la vérité
  • Bongo Congo: African kingdom in cartoon King Leonardo and his Short Subjects
  • Booty Island: a pirate island in the Caribbean Sea in the game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, part of the Tri-Island area (governed by Elaine Marley)
  • Boravia: a republic from TV program Danger Man In the episode "The Lovers", John Drake receives a call from an old enemy who is now in charge of security for the President of Boravia.
  • Borduria: totalitarian state from the comics series The Adventures of Tintin, located in the Balkans
  • Borginia: a republic from the videogame Dino Crisis
  • Borovia: Central-European country from the Big Knights TV programme.
  • Borovia (2): a communist Eastern European country in the G.I. Joe comics by Marvel Comics.
  • Bothalia: a kingdom in the Balkan Mountains from the movie The Vagabond Prince
  • Brainania: from the animated series Pinky and the Brain
  • Braslavia: Slavic dictatorial country in Patrouille des Castors comics
  • Bratavia: Asian dictatorial country mentioned in an episode of the 1987 German TV comedy Diplomaten küßt man nicht
  • Brazuela: industrialized South American nation between Venezuela and Brazil in Totally Spies! TV series
  • Bregna: a centralized scientific planned state from the animated series Aeon Flux
  • Bretzelburg: central European dictatorship from Spirou et Fantasio comics
  • British Hidalgo: tiny Central American country in the novel Limekiller by Avram Davidson (See Hidalgo)
  • Brobdingnag: country where the people are all giants from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • Brutopia: country appearing in several Donald Duck stories, possibly referring to the Soviet Union
  • Brynthia: one of four kingdoms in the game Dark Tower
  • Bukistan: an Islamic country in the Cary Grant movie Dream Wife
  • Bulmeria: an African country mentioned in the webcomic, It's Walky!
  • Bulungi: from The Onion article titled "U.S. Ambassador To Bulungi Suspected Of Making Country Up"
  • Bumdumborge: from Homestar Runner cartoon series
  • Buranda: African country in the BBC comedy series Yes Minister

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  • Cacklogallinia: a kingdom off the coast of South America, from A Voyage to Cacklogallinia by Captain Samuel Brunt
  • Cagliostro: a tiny duchy in the anime movie The Castle of Cagliostro
  • Calia: from Modesty Blaise episode "The Jericho Caper"
  • Camping Cosmos: the name of this fictive campsite really exists but is set in the surrealist surroundings of the country "Noble Belgique" in the movie Camping Cosmos
  • Candover: medieval country in the novel Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle
  • Cap'D'Far: a small island country from an episode of Scarecrow and Mrs. King who's only export was fish bones
  • Carbombya: country mentioned in the Transformers series
  • Carpania: European kingdom in The Great Race movie
  • Carpathia: Balkan kingdom from the play The Sleeping Prince by Terrence Rattigan and the subsequent movie The Prince and the Showgirl
  • Cascara: a tiny Caribbean island in the movie Water
  • Caspak: a huge island country located in the South seas somewhere between South America and Australia from Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot and its sequels
  • Cayuna: an imaginary Caribbean island modelled on Jamaica in the novels of John Hearne
  • Celama, Kingdom of: mythical land where inhabitants fight for survival as a challenge to their dignity in novels El reino de Celama by Luis Mateo Díez
  • Chekia: mythical kingdom in the movie The Only Thing
  • Chimerica: Central American country from the Hidden Agenda computer game
  • Chiroubistan: a Balkan/Islamic country perpetually at war, in the French comic strip "Henriette"
  • Cimmeria: homeland of the Robert E. Howard character Conan the Barbarian
  • Cockaigne: legendary country described in medieval tales, where all the harshness of medieval peasant life did not exist
  • Concordia: a small country only a few miles across somewhere in Europe in the movie Romanoff and Juliet
  • Confederated Gulf States: Persian Gulf Monarchy run by Sheik Rasul in an episode of Spooks
  • Coronado: unstable South American state in a movie of the same name, presumably named after Francisco Coronado
  • Coronia: a kingdom from the movie King, Queen and Joker
  • Cortuguay: Latin American country beset by revolutions in the film and Harold Robbins novel the Adventurers
  • Costaguana: from Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
  • Country of the Blind: from the short story with the same name by H. G. Wells
  • Crab Island: poor Caribbean island shaped like a crab, under the domination of Crocodile Island, in the Patrouille des Castors comics
  • New Crobuzon: a dystopian city-state created by China Miéville
  • Crocodile Island: Caribbean island shaped like a crocodile, with a dictatorial government which seems to be heavily influenced by Tahiti, in the Patrouille des Castors comics
  • Curuguay: a generic Latin American banana republic seen in The A-Team
  • Cyberia: robot country, goes to Olympics in Futurama. It is fictitious even in context.

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[edit] F

  • Far Eastern Republic: a nation from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Commandante"
  • Fawzia: Middle Eastern kingdom in the movie John Goldfarb, Please Come Home
  • Federated Peoples' Republic: a nation hostile toward the Kingdom of Bahkan in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Fool's Gold". Possibly the same as the Federated People's Republic: from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Time Bomb".
  • Filemonia: one of the countries resulting of the 1991 collapse of USSR as told in Mortadelo y Filemón: El 35 Aniversario
  • Findas: country sunk under the waves in The Book of Conquests by Jim Fitzpatrick
  • Florin: from William Goldman's The Princess Bride
  • Flyspeck Island: home of Gunk in the comic strip Curtis
  • Forest Kingdom: from Simon Green's Blue Moon Rising. Ruled by King John.
  • Franistan: Lucy pretends to be a "Maharincess" (cross between the daughter of a Maharaja and a Princess) from here, in the first season of I Love Lucy.
  • Freedonia: European country from the Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup
  • Freiland: from Freiland by Theodor Hertzka
  • Frell: the kingdom in the novel Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine and the subsequent movie
  • Fritolaysia: Central Asian "doritocracy" from The Onion article titled "Fritolaysia Cuts Off Chiplomatic Relations With Snakistan"
  • Frobnia: Eastern Bloc nation from Infocom's interactive fiction game Border Zone
  • Fröland: Island in the North Sea in the Dutch TV series Fröland
  • Fruitopia: a Pacific island in Australian fruit juice commercials

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[edit] H

  • Halla: a kingdom from the movie Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
  • Hav: a European city and state in Jan Morris's novel Last Letters from Hav
  • Herland: in the novel Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Herzoslovakia: a small Balkan state in Agatha Christie's novels The Secret of Chimneys and The Labours of Hercules
  • Hetland: a kingdom from the movie Such a Little Queen
  • Hidalgo: Central American country in the Doc Savage novels and film
  • Hillsdown: duchy in Simon Green's Blue Moon Rising. Ruled by Duke Alaric.
  • Hindustan: small country located in the center of the African desert. From "The Blood Stone" by Jamila Gavin.
  • Hoenn: a region or state in the Pokémon world
  • Land of the Houyhnhnms: a land where horses rule. The animalistic human-like creatures in this land are called Yahoos. From the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
  • Howduyustan: Carl Barks' satirical version of India.
  • Huella Islands: islands off the coast of Cayenne, mentioned in the Hardy Boys books. They are ruled by dictator Juan Posada and their "spy chief" is named Bedoya. The adjective is Huellan.
  • Hy-Brazil: An island of Irish fokelore that appears and disappears
  • Hyetsu: archipelago of islands, regrouping three nations, off the coast of South America

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[edit] K

  • Kabulstan: a xenophobic third world military dictatorship in an episode of MacGyver
  • Kafaristan: from William Rose Benét's children's book The Flying King of Kurio
  • Kajsa (Casha, Kasha): a sultanate, neighbor to Basenji from the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie
  • Kalubya: North African country corresponding to the location of Libya in Operation Thunderbolt arcade game
  • Kalya: West African country in the novel The Zinzin Road by Fletcher Knebel. Capital city: Ft. Paul.
  • Kamanga: Southern African country in the novel Tenth Man Down by Chris Ryan. Capital City: Mulongwe. Kamanga is poverty-stricken, war-torn and has an AIDS epidemic.
  • Kambezi: African country occurring in several MacGyver episodes, e.g. "Black Rhino"
  • Kamburu: totalitarian desert nation secretly ruled by a fugitive alien, based on Iraq or Libya, in the comic book mini-series JLA: Destiny
  • Kampong: from the novel The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
  • Kandah State: African sultanate in Ann Halam's Taylor Five; located on Borneo between Malaysia and Indonesia
  • Kanto: fictional state in Pokémon world, based on the area around Tokyo, Japan
  • Karak: Middle Eastern country, neighboring Ajir in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Nitro"
  • Karathia: Slavic monarchy in the Three Young Investigators series
  • Karistan: Central European country in the movie Legend of the White Horse
  • Karlova: European kingdom in Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Rider
  • Karovia: European kingdom from the movie Trouble for Two
  • Kasnia: war-torn Eastern European monarchy in the DC Animated Universe
  • Katanga: African country, neighboring Sierra Leone, in Frederick Forrest's The Dogs of War
  • Kazenotani: "The Valley of the Wind", a small semi-independent nation in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
  • Katzenstok: a republic in the Balkans from Road Rovers TV series
  • Keltic Sultanate: Islamic sultanate comprising the British Isles. From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Kenyopia: belligerent African nation in Totally Spies! TV series attempting to conquer its fictitious neighbor Lyrobia (see below)
  • Khembalung: Buddhist Himalayan country whose population moves to an island, in the Science in the Capital series by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Khemed: Arabic monarchy from the world of comic book hero Tintin
  • Kinakuta (Queenah-Kootah): island state from Neal Stephenson's novels Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle
  • Kinjanja: African country in the movie A Good Man in Africa (1994) starring Sean Connery
  • Klopstockia: from the W. C. Fields movie Million Dollar Legs
  • Krakozhia: from the movie The Terminal
  • Kravonia: Eastern European country from the novel Sophy of Kravonia by Anthony Hope and the subsequent movie
  • Kreplakistan: Soviet Republic from the Austin Powers movies, likely based of the real Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, now the Republic of Karakalpakstan. ("kreplach" - Eastern European Jewish dish consisting of meat-filled dumplings.)
  • Kuala Rokat: a far eastern country, from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Seal"
  • Kumrahn: see Qumran
  • Kurio: from William Rose Benét's children's book The Flying King of Kurio
  • Kuristan: from the movie Mr. Magoo, central Asian nation that is home to the famous jewel The Star of Kuristan
  • Kurland: mythical kingdom in the movie A Royal Family (but see Courland)
  • Kush: African country from John Updike's novel The Coup

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[edit] M

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  • Isle of Naboombu: kingdom of anthropomorphic animals in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  • Nagonia: African country in Yulian Semyonov's spy novel TASS is authorized to announce... (ТАСС уполномочен заявить...), and in the Soviet movie of the same title
  • Nambabwe: a parody of Namibia (formerly South West Africa) during the time of its UN-supervised independence from South Africa. A spoof of the transition by the UN peace-keeping forces was the subject of a comedy film by Leon Schuster, Oh Shucks...Here Comes UNTAG.
  • Nambutu: African country featured in the James Bond movie Casino Royale
  • Narnia: a fantasy world created by C. S. Lewis as a location for his Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven fantasy novels for children
  • Nation of Joe: apparently including only Joe, goes to Olympics in Futurama
  • Natumbe: African country from Dynasty TV series
  • Nayak: imaginary West African country in the movie La Nuit de la vérité
  • NetFrica: country in the Megaman Battle Network series analogous to Africa
  • Netopia: country in the Megaman Battle Network series analogous to North America and Europe (Ameroppa in the original Japanese version)
  • New Swissland: Nation southwest of Greenland in the Captain Underpants series. Every person born in this country is given a ridiculous name at birth.
  • New Zanzibar: African country from The Simpsons episode, "Simpson Safari." As the Simpsons were on an airplane landing in Tanzania, the flight attendant claimed the country had just been renamed to "New Zanzibar," and a second later, she claimed it was again renamed to "Pepsi presents New Zanzibar."
  • Nibia: African country in the movie Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
  • Nihilon: a country somewhere in central Europe, run by nihilists, in Alan Sillitoe's comic novel Travels in Nihilon
  • Nivia: from the Photon TV series
  • Nollop: island state from the novel Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
  • Nordenija: republic created by British artist Chris Shade
  • North Elbonia: A Communist neighbour of Elbonia (see above); loosely based on North Korea.
  • Nouvelle Atlantide or New Atlantis: a huge, rich, powerful, and very far from peaceful nation in Anatole France's Penguin Island. Similar to the USA
  • Novistrana: from the computer game Republic: The Revolution
  • Nuevo Rico: South American country from The Adventures of Tintin, neighbouring San Theodoros
  • Nukehavistan: former Soviet republic from The Onion article titled "U.S. Intelligence: Nukehavistan May Have Nuclear Weapons"

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[edit] T

  • Taka-Tuka-Land: Astrid Lindgren's book about Pippi Longstocking mentions a travel to this country in the third book of the series. Pippi's father was a king there in the South Sea.
  • Tanah Masa: from Karel Čapek's War with the Newts
  • Taprobane: a country described as "about ninety percent congruent with the island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)" from Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise
  • Taronia: from the movie Thirty Day Princess
  • Tawaki: from the movie Man of the Moment
  • Tecala: South American country from the movie Proof of Life
  • Tecan: Central American country in the novel A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
  • Terresta: European country in the movie His Royal Highness
  • 'Termina: the country in which the Lengend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask takes place.
  • Thulahn: Himalayan country in The Business by Iain Banks
  • Tijata: Central American dictatorship from the movie The In-Laws
  • Tir Na n'Og: "Land of the Youth," the Celtic paradise
  • Tirania (also Republic of Tirania): country governed by dictator Bruteztrausen; Spanish secret agents Mortadelo and Filemón helped depose Bruteztrausen and president Rompetechen was then elected.
  • Toga Toga Islands: South Pacific island nation featured on The A-Team
  • Tomania: Nazi Germany-like country from the movie The Great Dictator, ruled by Adenoid Hynkel
  • Tontecarlo: a gambler's paradise in Superlópez comic-books until Superlópez's tourism visit. Clearly based on Montecarlo; "Tonte" refers to Spanish word tonto (=fool).
  • Totalslava: from Homestar Runner cartoon series
  • Transvalia: not actually a state in its own right, but rather a parody of the so-called "Boerestaat" named Orania (which was to be a whites-only "homeland" that right-wing Afrikaners wished to establish after South Africa's transition to democracy on 27 April 1994). Leon Schuster made a comedy film called "Sweet and Short", which was a parody of life in the New South Africa. Interestingly enough, the film was made in 1990 shortly after Nelson Mandela was released from prison - many of the fictional events portrayed therein actually came to pass in post-apartheid South Africa.
  • Trent, Grand-Duchy of: European Grand-Duchy from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Choice"
  • Trobokistan: former Soviet satellite nation in Totally Spies! TV series
  • Tropico: island nation in the Caribbean in the Tropico computer game
  • Trucial Abysmia: Middle Eastern country in the G.I. Joe comics.
  • Tsalal: an island in the novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe and its sequel An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne

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[edit] V

  • Val Verde: Spanish-speaking country resembling Panama, in the movies Commando and Die Hard 2
  • Valaria: a kingdom in the movie The Colonel of the Red Hussars
  • Valeria: Spanish speaking democracy from Mission: Impossible episode "Wheels"
  • Valeska: a tropical country from the Three Stooges short Saved by the Belle
  • Vambria: an arctic communist dictatorship on the 1990's Disney animated TV series Tale Spin
  • Vandreka: see Bandrika
  • Vanutu: a tiny South Pacific nation comprised of four atolls from the novel State of Fear by Michael Crighton
  • Vespugia: South American nation located in Patagonia, site of ancient step pyramids and a history of some Welsh settlement; in books by Madeleine L'Engle. In an alternate timeline it was ruled by a dictator who threatened nuclear warfare.
  • Veyska: Baltic state suffering dictatorial rule in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Astrologer"
  • Virtú: virtual reality in Roger Zelazny's novel Donnerjack
  • Volsinia: the country with unknown location in Dr Trifulgas: A Fantastic Tale by Jules Verne
  • Vulgaria: the far-off, make-believe land in the film version of the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

[edit] W

  • Wakanda: small African nation featured in the Marvel Comics series The Avengers. The nation is ruled by King T'Challa, also known as the super hero Black Panther.
  • Wallarya: a small country in the Balkans in the movie His Royal Highness
  • Watership Down: not a country as such but a rabbit warren with all the attributes of one in the book by the same name. Seen as a metaphor for a Utopian Socialist state, as opposed to the flawed egalitarian/socialist state of the Warren of the Shining Wires, where their comfortable way of life is only possible as they are fed (and subsequently harvested) by humans.
  • West Monrassa: Central African country in an episode of Spooks. Run by President Gabriel Sakoa, a corrupt leader planning a genocide against the people in the north of the country
  • West Xylophone: fulfils the letters W and X in They Might Be Giants' Alphabet of Nations
  • West Yemen: a fictitious and presumably democratic country in the Middle East which bordered East Yemen. From an episode in the sitcom, Yes, Prime Minister.

[edit] X, Y

  • Xing: Eastern country from the manga version of Fullmetal Alchemist, heavily based on imperial China. Their people practice a form of medicinal alchemy.
  • Yakastonia: mountainous eastern European nation, where yodeling is prominent in local culture, but so is surfing on its coast. Important landmark is Mount Bubneboba, and its fresh mountain air is celebrated worldwide. A traditional greeting is doing an armpit fart while repeating the word "zwooba!". Home of exchange student Fentruck on the animated series Doug.
  • Yatakang: archipelagic Australasian "guided socialist democracy" from John Brunner's novel Stand on Zanzibar. Apparently roughly in the region of, and analogous to, Indonesia.
  • Kingdom Of Yr: from Joanne Greenberg's novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
  • Yudonia: a country mentioned in the episode "We're Married" from Drake & Josh sitcom
  • Yugaria: small Balkan nation from the Mission: Impossible: Operation Surma video game
  • Yukon Confederacy: a country in the novel Fitzpatrick's War by Theodore Judson
  • Yuktobania: a country from the Ace Combat series of video games. Highly influenced by USSR. Capital city: Cinigrad.
  • Yumland: a country in the Megaman Battle Network series analogous to Southeast Asia, mostly Thailand
  • Yurp: a poor country depicted in I Am Weasel animated TV series (pun on "Europe")
  • Yurugli: Eastern European country in the movie Our Lips Are Sealed. Name is a play on of 'you're ugly.' Home of the notorious Hachew (sneezing noise) crime family

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