In the now-cancelled Little Orphan Annie comic strip, there was Quagmiristan and Ratznestistan. The comic was also VERY conservative.
Fictional countries in political thrillers (TV and books)
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Ewing Oil had interests in a country called Southeastasia - their Head of Operations there arrived in JR's office, in filthy overalls, to inform The Great Man that the Government of Southeastasia was going to nationalise the industry. JR acknowledged him, and then sent him back.
I think the Southeastasian wells were sold to Cliff Barnes.
I should get out more.
I think the Southeastasian wells were sold to Cliff Barnes.
I should get out more.
TFSmith121
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Grand Fenwick and Ruritania come to mind
Plus all the pre-Columbian "nations" in the Western Hemisphere in the Book of Mormon...
Not certain if they count as "political thrillers," however. The Prisoner of Zenda, presumably; others' opinions may differ.
Best,
Plus all the pre-Columbian "nations" in the Western Hemisphere in the Book of Mormon...
Not certain if they count as "political thrillers," however. The Prisoner of Zenda, presumably; others' opinions may differ.
Best,
Tintin had Sydlavia, Borduria, SanTheodoros, Nuevo-Rico, Sondonesia, Khemed, SaoRico, Poldovia, Tetaragua and Pilchardarnia.
Somehow a generic South American dictatorship or a Balkan dictatorship.
Somehow a generic South American dictatorship or a Balkan dictatorship.
Could be misremembering this, but I believe Robert Ludlum's "Matarese Circle" has the beginning set in a Corsica that belongs to Italy. Not sure if that was intentional as, IIRC, this is the novel where one character identifies himself as being in "Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia"; and another, on arriving in Beirut, shows his international sophistication by replying to a question "in perfect Lebanese".
From the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle there's the Kingdom of Bohemia (assumingly an autonomous state within Austira-Hungary), the Empire of Scandanavia (assumingly Norway, Sweden and Denmark all in a union) and the Central American banana republic of San Pedro from the story "Wisteria Lodge", with the national colors of Green and White.
In the second book of the Advise and Consent series, A Shade of Difference, Allen Drury intoduced a fictional African country named Gorotoland that eventually became the site of a Cold War proxy war and was the location where the tensions betwwwn USSR and PRC wxploded into open war in his concluding volume, The Promise of Joy.
for those interested in flags, I started a section years ago on the Flags Of The World website dedicated to fictional entities that is now edited by Antonio Martin.
This is the listing on fictional earth countries.
This is the listing on fictional earth countries.
While some of the large and near futuristic fictional countries would be hard to explain, I often wondered what would be the ramification of having all the small generic countries all exist in a shared alternate earth.
if for example instead of having half a dozen mini-states in Europe (san marino, liechstenstein, Andorra, etc...) you had dozens more so, it would start to have an impact on politic and as they would take up place belonging to a country that exist in OTL, end up butterflying certain events.
It would be an interesting projects but probably to prevent it getting out of hand should be limited either in sources (comics, tv), era or type (excluding spoof ones for example). Countries considered for inclusion should probably have a territorial size limit and "hidden kingdoms" should be excluded outright to prevent too many butterflies.
if for example instead of having half a dozen mini-states in Europe (san marino, liechstenstein, Andorra, etc...) you had dozens more so, it would start to have an impact on politic and as they would take up place belonging to a country that exist in OTL, end up butterflying certain events.
It would be an interesting projects but probably to prevent it getting out of hand should be limited either in sources (comics, tv), era or type (excluding spoof ones for example). Countries considered for inclusion should probably have a territorial size limit and "hidden kingdoms" should be excluded outright to prevent too many butterflies.
I remember a debate on a different forum years about whether having hatay being a sovereign country was intentional on the part of the film makers or if they were just really crap at geography. Their were some surprisingly good argument on both sides.
apart from them being mostly white folks, what could the Japanese possibly think they had in common ?
Surprise I didn't find anyone even mentioning about the Duchy Grand Fenwick from "The Mouse That Roar". And it was even adapted into two movie, in which the first starred Peter Sellers.
History overall, the Duchy was found by English knight Sir Roger Fenwick in 1370 and is the only other official English speaking country in Europe. Said Duchy is somewhere located between France and Switzerland. It's economy is Pre-industrial and it's exports are wool and Pinot Grand Fenwick wine. There are only two cars used in the country, in which one was used by Duchess Gloriana XII and the other used by the Count of Mountjoy.
The Duchy's government is a monarchy, and has two opposing political parties which their names reflect their positions on whether to dilute the wine exports of the Duchy.
Military wise, the Duchy armed forces are absolutely devoid of any modern firearms and any other weapons, other than the longbow. Essentially they are at a medieval stasis in terms of warfare.
Fenwick first gain international prestige all from the beginning of a dispute of counterfeit wine making by the United States and eventually wind up with a prototype super-nuclear bomb that could create instant mutual assure destruction, leading the Duchy to forming an alliance with other small nations, the Tiny Twenty, to using the bomb for world peace and making brinkmanship during the 1950's at the time of the book's contemporary Cold War setting. In the movie, the bomb turns out to be a dud but everyone who knows it decide to keep this a secret from breaking the peaceful status quo.
Much later, Grand Fenwick becomes the first nation to win the Space Race by landing the first person on the Moon by using a special rocket fuel based from Pinot Grand Fenwick wine. AND THEN it became the most richest nation in the world when the Duchess surprisingly makes some good choices in the stock market (so rich that the Duchess complains that there are TOO much money that she decided to BURN them) and founding a large oil deposit that could surpass Kuwait.
History overall, the Duchy was found by English knight Sir Roger Fenwick in 1370 and is the only other official English speaking country in Europe. Said Duchy is somewhere located between France and Switzerland. It's economy is Pre-industrial and it's exports are wool and Pinot Grand Fenwick wine. There are only two cars used in the country, in which one was used by Duchess Gloriana XII and the other used by the Count of Mountjoy.
The Duchy's government is a monarchy, and has two opposing political parties which their names reflect their positions on whether to dilute the wine exports of the Duchy.
Military wise, the Duchy armed forces are absolutely devoid of any modern firearms and any other weapons, other than the longbow. Essentially they are at a medieval stasis in terms of warfare.
Fenwick first gain international prestige all from the beginning of a dispute of counterfeit wine making by the United States and eventually wind up with a prototype super-nuclear bomb that could create instant mutual assure destruction, leading the Duchy to forming an alliance with other small nations, the Tiny Twenty, to using the bomb for world peace and making brinkmanship during the 1950's at the time of the book's contemporary Cold War setting. In the movie, the bomb turns out to be a dud but everyone who knows it decide to keep this a secret from breaking the peaceful status quo.
Much later, Grand Fenwick becomes the first nation to win the Space Race by landing the first person on the Moon by using a special rocket fuel based from Pinot Grand Fenwick wine. AND THEN it became the most richest nation in the world when the Duchess surprisingly makes some good choices in the stock market (so rich that the Duchess complains that there are TOO much money that she decided to BURN them) and founding a large oil deposit that could surpass Kuwait.
if we go OPFOR type fictional countries, you had Agressor in the US back in the days and Kamaria in Australia.
