List of fictional city-states in literature
City-states have been an important aspect of human society. There are many fictional ones in literature, including:
Fictional city-states
- Ashtan (Achea on-line Computer game)
- Acmetropolis (Loonatics Cartoon)
- Aeropa (Jak and Daxter universe)
- Alpha Complex (Paranoia role-playing game)
- Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, by Roger Zelazny)
- Ankh-Morpork (Terry Pratchett's Discworld)
- Aramanth (the Wind on Fire trilogy)
- Arvanneth, in Poul Anderson's The Winter of the World - a New Orleans surviving into a future world gripped by a new Ice Age, where it is Earth's most ancient city, its origins hidden in the semi-mythical "Time Before the Ice" [1]
- Bandle City (League of Legends video game)
- Bikini Bottom (SpongeBob SquarePants TV program)
- Bildgewater (League of Legends video game)
- Bregna (Æon Flux TV program)
- Bordeaux-Mobile (Phillip's Reeve's "Mortal Engines" series)
- Brit-Cit (Judge Dredd comic book series)
- Bumblyburg (Veggie Tales cartoon)
- Candy City by Spanish author Alberto López Aroca. The city provides the name of the noir novel Candy City (2010).
- Caprica City (From Battlestar Galactica, technically a province)
- Ched Nasad (Forgotten Realms fantasy world)
- Christmas Town (Nightmare Before Christmas)
- Cities in Flight by James Blish are Earth cities which though the invention of the Spindizzy are able to take off into space, leaving an impoverished Earth behind, and wander the galaxy as independent "okie" cities. Specifically mentioned are Scranton, Pennsylvania, New York City (actually, only Manhattan) and Budapest (wandering space still bisected by the dry course of the Danube).
- Cittamotore (Phillip's Reeve's "Mortal Engines" series)
- City-17 (Half-Life 2 computer game)
- Ciudad Baranquilla (Judge Dredd comic book series)
- Chidanagaram (Phillip's Reeve's "Mortal Engines" series)
- Commorragh (Computer game Warhammer 40,000)
- Cynosure (First Comics multiverse)
- Cyrene (Achea on-line Computer game)
- Dalmasca (Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story on-line computer game universes)
- Demacia (League of Legends video game)
- Diaspar in The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
- Downbelow Station ( by C. J. Cherryh )
- Duchy of Grand Fenwick (The Mouse that Roared by Leonard Wibberly)
- East Meg One (Judge Dredd comic book series)
- The Edge (the Edge Chronicles)
- Eleusis (Achea on-line Computer game)
- Far Drop (Jak and Daxter universe)
- Free City of Greyhawk (Dungeons & Dragons Greyhawk Adventures campaign setting)
- The Free Cities of Natal on the continent of Triagia on Midkemia, a world created by a fantasy role-playing group and popularized by Raymond E. Feist.
- Freljord (League of Legends video game)
- Germantown, Tennessee (home of the Wolfman Clan)
- Gotham City ("Batman")
- Hashan (Achea on-line Computer game)
- Haven City (Jak and Daxter universe)
- Hondo City (Judge Dredd comic book series)
- Ionia (League of Legends video game)
- Kandor (Superman comic book series)
- Khamchatka (Phillip's Reeve's "Mortal Engines" series)
- Khare (Fighting Fantasy)
- Kras City (Jak and Daxter universe)
- Land of the Dead (From Corpse Bride)
- Land of the Living (from Corpse Bride)
- Gutak (Phillip's Reeve's "Mortal Engines" series)
- Juggernautpur (Phillip's Reeve's "Mortal Engines" series)
- Malaria (from the movie Igor)
- Mega-City One (Judge Dredd comic book series)
- Mega-City Two (Judge Dredd comic book series)
- Menzoberranzan (Forgotten Realms, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign)
- Metrofulus (Malaysian film Cicak-Man)
- Metropia (Phantom 2040 TV Program)
- Metropolis (Metropolis (film))
- Metru Nui (Lego Toy Bionicle storyline)
- Midgar (Final Fantasy VII)
- Mhaldor (Achea on-line Computer game)
- Moloch-Maschinenstadt ("A Darkling Plain" by Phillip Reeve)
- Motoropolis (Phillip's Reeve's "Mortal Engines" series)
- Neverwinter (Forgotten Realms, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign)
- New Crobuzon (Books by China Miéville)
- New Kelp City (SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Who Bob What Pants")
- New New York (Doctor Who TV program; The novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, Worlds trilogy by Joe Haldeman)
- Neustern: An autonomous coastal city state invented in the paintings of artist Gary Farrelly[1]
- North Am (Magnus, Robot Fighter science fiction series)
- Novarian series - Twelve city states presented in detail in the sequence of fantasy stories by L. Sprague de Camp: Solymbria, Boaktis, Tarxia, Zolon, Ir, Metouro, Govannion, Alissar, Xylar, Othomae, Kortoli, and Vindium - all sharing a common languague and culture but jealous of their independence and greatly differing in their systems of government; also, Iraz - a distant, non-Novarian city state in the same world, with a different languague and culture
- Noxus (League of Legends video game)
- Olympus (Appleseed manga and anime)
- Opar "Lost" city in the African jungles, in the Tarzan books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, its ancient days of glory described in prequel series by Philip José Farmer
- Paradigm City (The Big O TV program)
- Port Blacksand (Fighting Fantasy)
- Piltover (League of Legends video game)
- Rapture (Bioshock and Bioshock 2)
- Rock Bottom (SpongeBob SquarePants TV program)
- Sanctaphrax ( Paul Stewart's The Edge Chronicles)
- San d'Oria (Final Fantasy XI)
- Sigil (Planescape campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons)
- Silverymoon (Forgotten Realms, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign)
- Sino Cit (Judge Dredd comic book series)
- Spargus City (Jak and Daxter universe)
- St. Canard (Darkwing Duck TV series)
- Stars Hollow (Gilmore Girls television show)
- The Sprawl (Books by William Gibson)
- Steel City (Stahlstadt), a totalitarian German-speaking city-state in Jules Verne's "The Begum's Fortune"
- Stilwater (Saints Row Series)
- Superbia
- Texarkana (A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr.)
- Tinworth (from the Harry Potter books)
- Tokyo Jupiter (RahXephon)
- Town of Halloween (Nightmare Before Christmas)
- Ville-France, an utopian French-speaking city-state in Jules Verne's "The Begum's Fortune
- Waterdeep (Forgotten Realms, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign)
- Xanne-Sandansky(Phillip Reeve's "Mortal Engines" series)
- Zaun (League of Legends video game)
- Zero One (The Matrix series of films)
- Zimbra (Phillip's Reeve's "Mortal Engines" series)
- Zion (The Matrix series of films)
References
- ^ .The map of Neustern is an ongoing project by the artist Gary Farrelly. Work on the cartography of the state commenced when Farrelly was international artist in residency to the University of Texas in Dallas.