List of fictional European countries
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A
- Adjikistan: Featured Eurasian country in SOCOM: US Navy Seals.
- Alaine: small European kingdom from the movie His Majesty, the American.
- 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).
- Alpenstein: European principality and former ally of Nazi Germany featured in San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups.[1]
- Alpine Emirates: Islamic states in the Bavarian Alps in the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Alsander: Southern European state in James Elroy Flecker's King of Alsander (1914).
- Altis: A small island nation in the Central Mediterranean south of Malta. The setting of the video game ARMA 3.
- Alvania: Balkan kingdom from the movie The Royal Rider. Also a small village in Poland from the movie The Shrine.
- Amestris: small European country from the anime Fullmetal Alchemist.
- Anatruria: Balkanic kingdom in the Bernie Rhodenbarr novel The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart.
- Arendelle: small Nordic kingdom based on real-life Norway in the 2013 film Frozen.
- Arstotzka: the communist state in the video game Papers, Please where the player character works as an immigration inspector at a border checkpoint
- Ascovia: a fictional east European nation featured in the 1987 Eagle Annual
- Austeria: a slight version of Austria on TV series Kings.
- Austrania: European kingdom in the movie The Last Volunteer.
- Axphain: neighbor of Graustark.
B
- 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.
- Balkistan: appeared in Allen Upward's The Prince of Balkistan (1895).
- Baltish, a fictional country from a Lithuanian TV show of the same name.
- 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.
- Barataria, fictional island nation, presumably in the Mediterranean; setting for part of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers. Becomes a Republican Monarchy during the course of the operetta.
- Barscheit: a principality in The Princess Elopes (1905), a "Ruritanian" romance by Harold MacGrath.
- Bergen Ait: An uninhabited island in the Baltic Sea controlled by Great Britain in Biggles in the Baltic.
- Betonia: European kingdom in the movie His Royal Highness (1932).
- 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.
- Borginia: Northern-European country feature in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth.
- Borostyria: kingdom in the 1933 Arsène Lupin novel The Woman with Two Smiles.
- 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.
- Borsovia: a kingdom in Eastern Europe that featured in Gordon Murray's BBC Television children's puppet series A Rubovian Legend, 1955–63.
- Bothalia: a kingdom in the Balkan Mountains from the movie The Vagabond Prince.
- Braslavia: Slavic dictatorial country in Patrouille des Castors comics.
- Bratislavia: a fictional country mentioned in Count Duckula.
- Brazillia: A fictional Balkan republic after Albania joined Yugoslavia to make the Brazilian Republic in 2011 in the Death Enrising Novels.
- Bretzelburg: central European dictatorship from Spirou et Fantasio comics.
- Brogavia: A Nazi-occupied Balkan nation featured in Commando Comics.
- Buiron: appeared in A Thoroughly Modern Princess by Wendy Corsi Staub.
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D
- Dalmatia: a tiny Germanic nation whose royal family were exiled to Great Britain after a communist revolution there. Seen in the TV series You Rang, M'Lord?.
- Darklonia: Country ruled by Destro's cousin, Darklon, in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
- Dawsbergen: neighbor of Graustark.
- Doppelkinn: neighboring principality to Barscheit (Harold MacGrath, The Princess Elopes, 1905).
- Drackenberg: a European country from Lloyd Alexander's The Drackenberg Adventure.
- Drasuvania (ドラスベニア Dorasubenia) is a fictional Eastern Europe country in the world of 11eyes. It is the home country of Verard and Yukiko Hirohara. It lies at the border between Europe and Asia.
- Drecq: appeared 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.
- Dreisenburg: A tiny Germanic nation featured in the pilot of The Secret Service.
- Drusselstein: a fictional Germanic country in Phineas and Ferb. It is the home country of Doofenshmirtz.
- Ducklovia: a country bordering Serbia in Count Duckula.
E
- 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".
- 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).
- Eisneria: a republic in the Balkans from the Road Rovers TV series.
- Elbonia: a fourth-world post-communist Eastern European country in the comic strip Dilbert.
- England England: The Isle of Wight becomes its own country and an England-themed Theme Park in the book "England England".
- Eroslavia: The main subject of the adult story blog of the same name.
- Essenheim: appeared in John Rowe Townsend's A Foreign Affair (1982).
- Estrovia: European kingdom in the movie A King in New York.
- Esturia: Slavic country in Patrouille des Castors comics.
- Euphrania: tiny kingdom in the movie The Slipper and the Rose.
- Eurasia: the fictional superstate in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four referring to Europe and the former Soviet Union.
- 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.
F
- Falkasia: A virtual micronation created by avatar William Sommerfeld. Governed by the aforementioned avatar, it is stylized to resemble a Post-Cold War Eastern Bloc country under a predominately benevolent dictatorship.
- Fasilica: appeared in an early 1914 serial by Rex Stout, of later Nero Wolfe fame, reprinted in the 1990s as A Prize for Princes.
- Flavonia: appeared in Violet Needham's Betrayer (1950).
- Florin: one of the fictional principalities in William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride.
- Franistan: from the I Love Lucy episode 'The Publicity Agent' in which Lucy pretends to be the "Maharincess of Franistan", royalty from a faraway land who is a big fan of Ricky's, in order to get Ricky some publicity.
- Freedonia: From the Marx Brothers' movie Duck Soup. It is ruled by Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx).
- Frobnia: Communist Eastern Bloc nation in Central Europe from Infocom's interactive fiction game Border Zone, bordering neutral Litzenburg.
G
H
I
- 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.
- Irania: small European kingdom from the movie Trouble for Two.
- Ixania: a small Balkan country of little global importance in Eric Ambler's The Dark Frontier.
J
- Jorassia: appears in Dr. Edgar Cyriax's musical/operetta The Prince of Jorassia, 1938 (English ambassador is Lord Brayneweake).
- Jugendheit: kingdom of King Frederick in Harold MacGrath's The Goose Girl (1909, #8 US best seller) Note that the name is a kind of pig-German literally meaning "youthness".
K
L
M
- Maestrazgo: Hispanic kingdom in the José Juan Carrión´s Blog de Heráldica.
- Magyaristan: Islamic state in the former Hungary. From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Mandrika: Mountainous European country on Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Lady Vanishes (1938).
- Margoth: European kingdom in Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Rider.
- 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.
- Masavania, Kosnia: European kingdoms in the movie If I Were Queen.
- Medioka: Ruritania type of mid-European country presented in Mickey Mouse comic strip story The Monarch of Medioka (1937–38).
- Mendorra: principality located near Germany from the American soap opera, One Life to Live.
- Mervo: island principality in The Prince and Betty by P. G. Wodehouse
- Messina: principality in Richard Harding Davis's, The King's Jackal (1891).
- Mittenheim: grand duchy in The Heart of Princess Osra by Anthony Hope
- Mixo-Lydia: Balkan country in the novels of Angela Thirkell; has a long-standing enmity with neighbouring Slavo-Lydia.
- Moldavia: Eastern European country from Dynasty TV series (note: Moldavia really exists as a nation itself and also as a region in Romania).
- Moldovakia: Eastern European country in Recess best known for its spies and its luge team.
- Molvanîa: Eastern European country from a parody travel guidebook; from the same authors as Phaic Tăn and San Sombrèro.
- Monaco : Western European country and the main setting of the second season of Yakitate!! Japan anime. Unlike the real life Monaco, the Monaco from the anime series is not a principality and is ruled by a King.
- Moronica: parody of Nazi Germany from the Three Stooges short You Nazty Spy.
- Mypos: Native home of Balki Bartokomous on Perfect Strangers.
N
O
- Oceania: fictional superstate in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four referring to Great Britain, the Americas, Australasia and southern Africa.
- Ornowitza: appeared in Violet Needham's Betrayer (1950).
- Orsinia: featured in Ursula K. Le Guin's Orsinian Tales and Malafrena.
- Osterlich: nation invaded by Bacteria and Tomainia in the movie The Great Dictator; obviously supposed to be Austria.
- Ovitznia: a republic in the Balkans from Road Rovers TV series.
P
- Pannonia: appeared in Guy Boothby's Long Live the King (1900).
- 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.
- Papilloma: Small European Kingdom, later Republic, from film Kath & Kimderella. Papilloma is a tiny and poor Spanish outpost on the heel of Italy. Last ruler was King Javier.
- Peaceland: European country featured in the anime Nadesico, which was once a theme park, but formed its 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.
- Penguin Island (L'île des Pingouins): in the 1908 novel by Anatole France, an island in the North Sea where penguins were miraculously transformed into humans (and which is in fact a satirical view on France).
- Pepeslavia: from the movie Su Excelencia starring Mario Moreno (better known as Cantinflas). Probably referring to Yugoslavia.
- Perusalem is a satire of Germany (Preussen, i.e. Prussia) in The Inca of Perusalem by George Bernard Shaw.
- Petrovakia: a fictional union republic in the game Heavy Weapon, usually referring to Czechoslovakia.
- 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".
- Poictesme: a country situated roughly in the south of France in the books of James Branch Cabell.
- Poldévie: Eastern European country in a famous petition in the 1930s and in many novels by Jacques Roubaud.
- Poldavia: a small country presumably in Eastern Europe in The Blue Lotus from The Adventures of Tintin.
- 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 cartoon series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
- Povia: a small monarchy in the Balkans in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Heir Apparent".
- Pulsovia: an Eastern European country where Jarek comes from in the Spanish humour sketch program "La hora de José Mota".
- (Kalbsbraten-)Pumpernickel: German duchy, a caricature of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in Vanity Fair, The Fitz-Boodle Papers, and other works by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Pushno: appeared in Ernest Corbyn Smart's Alex (1959).
Q
R
- Razkavia: Germanic country in Philip Pullman's The Tin Princess.
- Réndøosîa: a fictional Eastern European country plagued by natural disasters. Homeland of Enk, Adi and Xan who are the main characters on the animated series The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers.
- Republic of Great Britain: A fictional version of Great Britain featured in the Doctor Who story Inferno.
- Republic of Kravta Nova: A fictional Eastern European nation referenced in the Father Ted episode Speed 3, in which it is mentioned that Craggy Island has been helping to ease the republic's unusually high milk surplus.
- Romanovia: Eastern European country featured in the comedy Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. Dodgeball is the national sport.
- Rongovia: Fictional country mentioned in Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris. Has an Embassy to the USA in Trumansburg NY and a very active Ministry of Fine Arts. The capital is Fat City. Rongovia is a state of mind.
- Rubovia: a kingdom in Eastern Europe that featured in Gordon Murray's BBC Television children's puppet series A Rubovian Legend, 1955–63.[3]
- Rumekistan: a fictional Eastern European nation featured in Marvel Comics' Cable & Deadpool.
- Ruritania: a kingdom in central Europe from Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda and associated works.
S
- Sachenia: a tiny state close to the Alps in the movie Herz ohne Krone.
- 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.
- Sauville: small kingdom between France, Switzerland and Italy from anime series Gosick. It consists of parts of the real Italian provinces: Aosta Valley, Liguria, Piedmont.
- Sciriel: Natalie is heiress to the throne in Roland Pertwee's late (1927) Ruritanian romance set just before and after World War I.
- Seravno: a Balkan country from the TV Series Mission Impossible.
- Servia: appeared in Bessie Marchant's A Princess of Servia (c. 1925). Also an ancient foreign name for Serbia.
- Skandistan: Islamic state comprising what was formerly Scandinavia. From the alternate history book The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- 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.
- Slavo-Lydia: Balkan country in the novels of Angela Thirkell; has a long-standing enmity with neighbouring Mixo-Lydia.
- 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. Slovetzia is located between Romania, Ukraine and Hungary; situated roughly in Trans-Carpathia, a real region in the Ukraine. The republic is portrayed as a post-communist Eastern European dictatorship.
- 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 Sir Topham Hatt.
- Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: the "last existing appanage republic of the USSR", a fake country created by monochrom for theatre performances and computer games.
- St Gregory: A British Crown dependency in the Channel Islands, featured in the ITV series Island at War. Based upon Jersey and Guernsey.
- Strackenz: a tiny European duchy in the novel Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser that borders Denmark and Germany. It is threatened with invasion by both countries as a result of the Schleswig-Holstein Question.
- Svardia: a tiny European republic located in the Balkens from the Mission: Impossible episode "The Train".
- Syldavia: Balkan monarchy featured in four stories of The Adventures of Tintin, neighbouring Borduria.
- Sylvania: From the Marx Brothers' movie Duck Soup. It was the country which attacked Freedonia.
- Symkaria: a small Eastern European country from Marvel Comics, the homeland of renowned mercenary Silver Sable.
T
- Terresta: European country in the movie His Royal Highness.
- Tcherkistan: East European country from the film Supercondriaque (2014)
- Tescara: European island nation located in the Atlantic Ocean. As a free trade zone enrolled into the United Nations in 1991, it is used as place of origin for the suspects of CSI: New York's season 1 episode 19, "Crime and Misdemeanor".
- Ticktockia: A small country between France and Germany, ruled by King Salazar the Pushy, that invades neighboring Warnerstock in the movie Wakko's Wish.
- Thembria: A frigid land whose pillars are military dictatorship, unbridled incompetence, and constant threat of death from a firing squad. From Disney's cartoon series Tail Spin. Home of Colonel Spigot, Sergeant Dunder, professor Crackpotkin, and others.
- The Triple Monarchy of Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania: from Dr. Engelbert Eszterhazy stories by Avram Davidson.
- Tomainia: Nazi Germany-like country from the movie The Great Dictator, ruled by Adenoid Hynkel.
- Trans-Carpathia: A country in Eastern Europe, used in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Trans-Carpathia is also a real region in the Ukraine.
- Transiola: appeared in Howard C. Rowe's Mr. Whybrew's Princess (1913).
- Tratvia: A country in Europe that formed the setting for the radio series The Embassy Lark, which dealt with the trials and tribulations of the British Ambassador to Tratvia and the foreign relations between Tratvia and the United Kingdom. It would later feature in several episodes of the related radio series The Navy Lark.
- Trent, Grand-Duchy of: European Grand-Duchy from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Choice".
U
- Udonia: a central European country mentioned in a single episode on the Nickelodeon show Drake and Josh.
- Ulgia: a politically unstable country from the anime Noir.
- Ulmreich: Southern European state in James Elroy Flecker's King of Alsander (1914).
- Urdluvia: Borders on Rongovia. Known only from a map of Rongovia in the Rongovian Embassy to the USA In Trumansburg.
- Urseville-Beylestein: Prince Paul's country in the 1902 book Love and the Soul Hunter by John Oliver Hobbes.
V
W
- 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
- Warnerstock: a small country between France and Germany in the movie Wakko's Wish
- Weselton: duchy in Frozen, neighbour of Arendelle
- Westmark: country from Lloyd Alexander's Westmark Trilogy
- 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".
Y
- 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.
Z
- Zembla: Northern European country in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire
- Zindaria: a brand-new one that existed in Europe during the English Regency era of 1811–1820, Anne Gracie's The Stolen Princess (2008).
- Zubrowka: location of the eponymous hotel in the 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel, a European alpine state ravaged by war and poverty;[4] unrelated to the Polish vodka Żubrówka.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gleisner, T., Cilauro, S. and Sitch, R. (2006) San Sombrèro Melbourne: Working Dog Productions
- ↑ Siembieda, K.; Bellaire, C.; Therrien, S.; Ward, T. & Wujcik, E. (August 2005). Rifts Role-Playing Game, Ultimate Edition. Taylor, MI: Palladium Books. p. 16. ISBN 1-57457-150-8.
- ↑ "Realm of Rubovia". A. & J. Roxburgh.
- ↑ "The Republic of Zubrowka Before the War: A Central European Case Study of Social, Political, and Cultural Upheaval.", draft 19, course syllabus, Zubrowska Akademie Historic Library (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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