List of fictional European countries

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This is a partial list of fictional countries in Europe.

Contents 1 List moved from elsewhere 1.1 Eastern Europe 1.2 Western Europe 1.3 Uncertain 2 To be merged 2.1 Borduria 2.2 Syldavia 2.3 Borovia 2.4 Bretzelburg 2.5 Darklonia 2.6 Elbonia 2.7 Freedonia 2.8 Genovia 2.9 Gonobutz 2.10 The Duchy of Grand Fenwick 2.11 Graustark 2.12 Groland 2.13 Hav 2.14 Herzoslovakia 2.15 Karistan 2.16 Kasnia 2.17 Krakozhia 2.18 Latveria 2.19 Latvislavia 2.20 Letzenstein 2.21 Molvania 2.22 Orsinia 2.23 Ruritania 2.24 Slovetzia 2.25 Symkaria 2.26 St Gregory 2.27 Sylvania 2.28 Trans-Carpathia 2.29 Wolkekuckukkland 2.30 Vulgaria

[edit] List moved from elsewhere

[edit] Eastern Europe

• Adjikistan: Featured Eurasian country in SOCOM: US Navy Seals.
• Alvania: Balkan kingdom from the movie The Royal Rider
• Anatruria: Balkanic kingdom in the Bernie Rhodenbarr novel The Burglar who thought he was Bogart
• Axphain: neighbor of Graustark
• 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.
• Barscheit: a principality in The Princess Elopes (1905), a "Ruritanian" romance by Harold MacGrath
• Blitva: state in northeastern Europe, ruled by a dictator; in a novel "Banket u Blitvi" (Banquet in Blitva) by Croatian novelist Miroslav Krleža
• Borduria: totalitarian state from the comics series The Adventures of Tintin, located in the Balkans
• 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
• Braslavia: Slavic dictatorial country in Patrouille des Castors comics
• Bretzelburg: central European dictatorship from Spirou et Fantasio comics
• Carpathia: Balkan kingdom from the play The Sleeping Prince by Terrence Rattigan and the subsequent movie The Prince and the Showgirl
• Chiroubistan: a Balkan/Islamic country perpetually at war, in the French comic strip "Henriette"
• Dawsbergen: neighbor of Graustark
• Doppelkinn: neighboring principality to Barscheit (Harold MacGrath, The Princess Elopes, 1905)
• East European Republic: an anti-American power from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Submarine". Possibly the same as the East European Peoples Republic (EEPR) from "The Party" and the European People's Republic from "Invasion".
• Eisneria: a republic in the Balkans from the Road Rovers TV series
• Esturia: Slavic country in Patrouille des Castors comics
• Euroslavia: Eastern European country that comprises most of Europe; home to a super villain the cartoon "The Ripping Friends"
• Evallonia: Central European country in the novels of John Buchan
• Evarchia: Eastern European country from Brigid Brophy's Palace Without Chairs
• Fasilica: appeared in an early 1914 serial by Rex Stout, of later Nero Wolfe fame, reprinted in the 1990s as A Prize for Princes
• Frobnia: Eastern Bloc nation from Infocom's interactive fiction game Border Zone
• Genovia: country in the Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot and Mia Thermopolis is heir to its throne
• Graustark: Eastern European country in several novels by George Barr McCutcheon
• Herzoslovakia: a small Balkan state in Agatha Christie's novels The Secret of Chimneys and The Labours of Hercules
• Hohenwald: home principality of the heroine in Richard Harding Davis, The Princess Aline (1895)
• Ifuvania: Eastern European country used as an experiment, featured in The Far Side cartoon books
• Illyria: Eastern European country in the play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) by Jean-Paul Sartre. Illyira is also a name given by the ancient Romans to a region between the Adriatic sea and the Danube river.
• Ixania: a small Balkan country of little global importance in Eric Ambler's The Dark Frontier
• Karathia: Slavic monarchy in the Three Young Investigators series
• Karistan: Central European country in the movie Legend of the White Horse
• Kasnia: war-torn Eastern European monarchy in the DC Animated Universe
• Katzenstok: a republic in the Balkans from Road Rovers TV series
• Krakozhia: from the movie The Terminal
• Kravonia: Eastern European country from the novel Sophy of Kravonia by Anthony Hope and the subsequent movie
• Krayia: realm of Queen Nadya in Noel Coward's, "The Queen Was in the Parlour" (play, 1922)
• Laevatia: Balkan nation from Nevil Shute's Ruined City
• Lanconia: Eastern European country referenced in Jude Deveraux's romance novels
• Latveria: a kingdom in the Fantastic Four comic-book series ruled by tyrannical Doctor Doom
• Laurania: the republic in Savrola (A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania) by Winston Churchill
• Lavernia: Eastern European country in the movie Another Meltdown (Bi xie lan tian)
• Leutonia: Eastern European home of the Happy Wanderers (Yosh & Stan Shmenge) from SCTV
• Lutha: a small Balkan kingdom from the novel The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Magyaristan: Islamic state in the former Hungary. From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Marisi: appears in Rex Stout's A Prize for Princes (“Ruritanian romance” set in Fasilica and Marisi; serialized in 1914 and reprinted as a book in the 1990s; author is the later creator of the Nero Wolfe mystery series)
• Marshovia (Marsovia, Makovnia): small Eastern European kingdom most likely located somewhere near Transylvania in the operetta The Merry Widow
• Messina: principality in Richard Harding Davis's, The King's Jackal (1891)
• Moldavia: Eastern European country from Dynasty TV series (note: Moldavia really exists as a region)
• Moldavia (2): Eastern European country from the movie Second in Command
• Molvanîa: Eastern European country from a parody travel guidebook; from the same authors as Phaic Tăn and San Sombrèro.
• Moldovakia:Eatern European country in Recess best known for its spies and its luge team.
• Nihilon: a country somewhere in central Europe, run by nihilists, in Alan Sillitoe's comic novel Travels in Nihilon
• Novistrana: from the computer game Republic: The Revolution
• Orsinia: featured in Ursula Le Guin's Orsinian Tales and Malafrena, Orsinia is an Eastern European country.
• Ovitznia: a republic in the Balkans from Road Rovers TV series
• Pepeslavia: from "Su Excelencia" movie starring Mario Moreno Cantinflas. Probably referring to Yugoslavia.
• Pfennig Halbpfennig: presumably German/Eastern European Grand Duchy and setting for the operetta The Grand Duke, by Gilbert and Sullivan. Notable for an unusual law regarding "Statutory Duels", in which duelists compete by drawing playing cards - the loser then dies and becomes a "legal ghost".
• Poldévie: Eastern European country in a famous petition in the 1930s and in many novels by Jacques Roubaud.
• Pontevedro: a poverty-stricken Grand Duchy situated deep in the Balkans from the comedy play L'Attache d'ambassade by Henri Meilhac and the subsequent operetta and movie The Merry Widow. Pontevedro is a veiled reference to the Balkan country of Montenegro.
• Pottibakia: Balkan country from the short story "What Does it Matter? A Morality" by E. M. Forster. Capital city: Ekarest.
• Pottsylvania: from Jay Ward's The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
• Povia: a small monarchy in the Balkans in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Heir Apparent"
• Romanovia: Eastern European country featured in the comedy Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. Dodgeball is the national sport.
• Samavia: Eastern European kingdom in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Lost Prince
• Saroczia: Eastern European country which the United States invades, which serves as the terrorist basis in the video game Winback.
• The Triple Monarchy of Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania: from Dr. Engelbert Eszterhazy stories by Avram Davidson
• The People's Republic of Slaka: a Balkan communist country in Malcolm Bradbury's Rates of Exchange and its sequel Why Come to Slaka? It also featured in the BBC drama, the Gravy Train moves East.
• Slavosk: a country in Eastern Europe from the TV series Danger Man. Drake must travel to Slavosk to rescue the supposed sister of a famous professor from this country.
• Slovetzia: a tiny country in Eastern Europe in the movie The Beautician and the Beast
• Syldavia: Balkan monarchy featured in four stories of The Adventures of Tintin, neighbouring Borduria
• Symkaria: a small Eastern European country from Marvel Comics, the homeland of renowned mercenary Silver Sable
• Veyska: Baltic state suffering dictatorial rule in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Astrologer"
• Wallaria: appeared in Percy James Brebner's Princess Maritza (1907) - probably eastern Europe
• Wallarya: a small country in the Balkans in the movie His Royal Highness
• 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.
• Yugaria: small Balkan nation from the Mission: Impossible: Operation Surma video game
• 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

[edit] Western Europe

• Al-Alemand: Islamic state consisting of the former Germany and the Low Countries. From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Alfaine: appeared in Jules Lemaitre's Prince Hermann Regent (1893)
• Alpine Emirates: Islamic states in the Bavarian Alps in the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Bacteria: thinly-disguised version of Fascist Italy from the movie The Great Dictator. Bears the same name as the microorganism.
• 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
• Belmark: Germany, in Leslie Reid's Cauldron Bubble (1934)
• Cagliostro: a tiny duchy in the anime movie The Castle of Cagliostro
• Edwal: Wales, in Leslie Reid's Cauldron Bubble (1934)
• Ehrenstein, of which the capital is Dreiberg: principality of Princess Hildegarde in Harold MacGrath, The Goose Girl (1909, #8 US best seller)
• Essenheim: appeared in John Rowe Townsend's A Foreign Affair (1982)
• Europian Confederacy: a futuristic version of the European Union appeared in The Ununited States of America by Keegan Choffat
• Flavonia: appeared in Violet Needham's Betrayer (1950)
• Florin: one of the fictional principalities in William Goldman's The Princess Bride
• Genovia: European country from the The Princess Diaries novels and movie adaptations (The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement)
• Glenraven: a tiny country in the Alps, no bigger than Liechtenstein, squeezed into the border between France and Italy in Glenraven series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Granbretan: a future evil version of Great Britain where the noble classes hide behind metal masks of various totem animals, created by Michael Moorcock in his The History of the Runestaff books
• Grand Fenwick: a duchy in The Mouse That Roared and sequels by Leonard Wibberley
• Grendel: England in Leslie Reid's Cauldron Bubble (1934)
• Groland: French television channel Canal+ "presipality"
• Grünewald: an imaginary Germanic state where the novel Prince Otto (1885) by Robert Louis Stevenson is set
• Guilder: one of the fictional principalities in William Goldman's The Princess Bride
• Hohenphalia: home principality of Princess Hildegarde in Harold MacGrath's Arms and the Woman (1899)
• Jugendheit: kingdom of King Frederick in Harold MacGrath's The Goose Girl (1909, #8 US best seller) Note that the name just means "youth" in German
• Karlsberg: principality of the hero of Sigmund Romberg's "The Student Prince" (1924 Broadway musical; 1954 film with Mario Lanza)
• Lichtenburg: made famous by Ethel Merman in the musical comedy "Call Me Madam!"
• Lissenberg: appeared in Jane Aiken Hodge's Leading Lady (1990)
• Moronica: parody of Nazi Germany from the Three Stooges short You Nazty Spy
• Ornowitza: appeared in Violet Needham's Betrayer (1950)
• Osterlich: nation invaded by Bacteria and Tomania in the movie The Great Dictator; obviously supposed to be Austria
• Pannonia: appeared in Guy Boothby's Long Live the King (1900)
• Penguin Island (L'île des Pingouins): in the 1908 novel by Anatole France, an island in the North Sea where Penguins were miraculosly transformed into humans (and which is in fact a satitical view on France).
• Poictesme: a country situated roughly in the south of France in the books of James Branch Cabell
• Qwghlm: a country off the northwestern coast of Britain in Neal Stephenson's fictions Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle
• Razkavia: Germanic country in Philip Pullman's The Tin Princess
• Ruritania: a kingdom in central Europe from Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda and associated works
• Sachenia: a tiny state close to the Alps in the movie Herz ohne Krone
• Servia: apeared in Bessie Marchant's A Princess of Servia (c. 1925)
• Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: the "last existing appanage republic of the USSR", a fake country created by monochrom for theatre performances and computer games
• Skandistan: Islamic state comprising what was formerly Scandinavia. From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Island of Sodor: between England and the Isle of Man, the setting for the Reverend Awdry's Thomas the Tank Engine railway network managed by "The Fat Controller"
• Tomania: Nazi Germany-like country from the movie The Great Dictator, ruled by Adenoid Hynkel
• Transiola: appeared in Howard C. Rowe's Mr. Whybrew's Princess (1913)
• Vascovy: appeared in John Oxenham (William A. Dunkerley), A Princess of Vascovy (1899)
• Veyska: Baltic state suffering dictatorial rule in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Astrologer"
• Zembla: Northern European country in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire

[edit] Uncertain

• Alaine: small European kingdom from the movie His Majesty, the American
• Austrania: European kingdom in the movie The Last Volunteer
• Balkistan: appeared in Allen Upward's The Prince of Balkistan (1895)
• Betonia: European kingdom in the movie His Royal Highness (1932)
• Buiron: appeared in A Thoroughly Modern Princess by Wendy Corsi Staub
• Carpania: European kingdom in The Great Race movie
• Carpathia: locale in a sequence of recent vampire-type novels
• Chocovakia: European republic setting for the #0-issue of the Flemish Spike and Suzy-series, borders Belgium, named based on Czechoslovakia.
• Concordia: a small country only a few miles across somewhere in Europe in the movie Romanoff and Juliet
• Cordina: locale in Nora Roberts' romance novels
• Corinthia, of which the capital was Bleiberg: setting of Harold MacGrath's, The Puppet Crown (1901, in which year the book was the #7 US fiction best seller)
• Drackenberg: a European country from Lloyd Alexander's The Drackenberg Adventure
• Drecq: apeared in Adele Ferguson Knight's The Right to Reign: A Romance of the Kingdom of Drecq (1912). Note phonetic similarity to the German noun "Dreck," which means manure; some of these authors must have been really tired of the "Ruritanian romance" genre.
• Estrovia: European kingdom in the movie A King in New York
• Euphrania: tiny kingdom in the movie The Slipper and the Rose
• Freedonia: European country from the Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup
• Hav: a European city and state in Jan Morris's novel Last Letters from Hav
• Irania: small European kingdom from the movie Trouble for Two
• Jorassia: appears in Dr. Edgar Cyriax's musical/operetta The Prince of Jorassia, 1938 (English ambassador is Lord Brayneweake)
• Karlova: European kingdom in Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Rider
• Karovia: European kingdom from the movie Trouble for Two
• Keltic Sultanate: Islamic sultanate comprising the British Isles. From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Krasnia: Ivor Novello's Glamorous Night, Stage play, 1935
• Margoth: European kingdom in Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Rider
• Masavania, Kosnia: European kingdoms in the movie If I Were Queen
• Niroli: focus of a series of Harlequin Presents novels
• Nordland: Ivor Novello's King's Rhapsody, 1949, stage play; probably not in Scandinavia because the characters have rather Balkan-sounding names. (Note: Nordlan is a county of Norway)
• Panquita: European monarchy mentioned in second season of Yakitate!! Japan anime. A member of that nation's royal family, Princess Anne, was a guest judge at the baking exhibition.
• Peaceland: European country featured in the anime Nadesico, which was once a theme park, but formed it's own nation. It is neutral in all conflicts, on earth and beyond, has no taxes, and has a great banking system similar to that of Switzerland. Ruri "Ruri Ruri" Hoshino, a famous character of the series, is originally a princess from there.
• Pushno: appeared in Ernest Corbyn Smart's Alex (1959)
• Perusalem is a satire of Germany in The Inca of Perusalem by George Bernard Shaw.
• Rongovia: Fictional country mentioned in Santaland_Diaries by David Sedaris.
• Sciriel: Natalie is heiress to the throne in Roland Pertwee's late (1927) Ruritanian romance set just before and after World War I
• Strackenz: European country in the novel Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser
• Svardia: a tiny European republic from the Mission: Impossible episode "The Train"
• Sylvania: belligerent neighbor to Freedonia in the movie Duck Soup
• Terresta: European country in the movie His Royal Highness
• Trent, Grand-Duchy of: European Grand-Duchy from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Choice"
• Ulgia: a politically unstable country from the anime Noir
• Verdunia: appeared in A Thoroughly Modern Princess by Wendy Corsi Staub
• Vulgaria: the far-off, make-believe land in the film version of the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Zindaria: a brand new one that existed in Europe during the English Regency era of 1811–1820, Anne Gracie's The Stolen Princess (2008)

[edit] To be merged

[edit] Borduria

[edit] Syldavia

• King Ottokar's Sceptre
• Destination Moon (Tintin)
• Explorers on the Moon
• The Calculus Affair

[edit] Borovia

• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, renamed into Borigia/Krazny-Marengo, capital Krogdnz

[edit] Bretzelburg

• A Central European dictatorship in the Spirou et Fantasio comic album Q.R.N. over Bretzelburg.Known in the region of Slovakia,and Hungary.

[edit] Darklonia

• Country ruled by Destro's cousin, Darklon, in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.

[edit] Elbonia

• A fourth-world post-communist Eastern European country in the Dilbert comic strip.

[edit] Freedonia

• From the Marx Brothers' movie "Duck Soup". It is ruled by Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx).

[edit] Genovia

• From The Princess Diaries novel series and movie adaptations (The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement). In the novels, it is a principality between Italy and France; in the film it is between Spain and France. Either way, it is based on Monaco, and to a lesser extent on Andorra.

[edit] Gonobutz

• Bob de Moor's Barelli comics

[edit] The Duchy of Grand Fenwick

• The Mouse that Roared and sequels.

[edit] Graustark

• see article for list of novels

[edit] Groland

• A parody of France and European microstates, shown on Canal Plus television.

[edit] Hav

• A city and state, somewhat like the Crimea geographically, in the Jan Morris novel Last Letters from Hav.

[edit] Herzoslovakia

• Agatha Christie's The Secret of Chimneys
• Agatha Christie's "The Stymphalean Birds" from The Labours of Hercules

[edit] Karistan

A country from Polish-American movie Legend of the white horse (pl : Biały smok)

[edit] Kasnia

DC comics location

[edit] Krakozhia

[edit] Latveria

• Marvel Comics and various spin-offs featuring Doctor Doom

[edit] Latvislavia

• A fictional European country in Donald Duck. Known of its national football team.

[edit] Letzenstein

• A tiny state, presumably based on Liechtenstein, which is featured in Meriol Trevor's "Letzenstein Chronicles" series of books.

[edit] Molvania

• A tourist guide book spoof.

[edit] Orsinia

• Crypto-Poland, in Ursula K. Le Guin's Orsinian Tales and Malafrena

[edit] Ruritania

• The Prisoner of Zenda
• Rupert of Hentzau

[edit] Slovetzia

• From the movie Beautician and the Beast. It is a tiny state (possibly qualifying as a European microstate) between Romania, Ukraine and Slovakia; situated roughly in Trans-Carpathia, a real region in the Ukraine. The republic is a post-communist Eastern European dictatorship.

[edit] Symkaria

• Marvel Comics, home of Silver Sable, the neighboring country of Latveria.

[edit] St Gregory

• A British Crown dependency in the Channel Islands, featured in the ITV series Island at War. Based upon Jersey and Guernsey.

[edit] Sylvania

• From the Marx Brothers' movie Duck Soup. It was the country attacked by Freedonia.

[edit] Trans-Carpathia

• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, country in Eastern Europe.

[edit] Wolkekuckukkland

• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, the neighboring country of Darklonia; the name is German for Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, from Aristophanes' play, "The Birds".

[edit] Vulgaria

• Home to the Baron and Baroness Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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