List of fictional countries in the Americas explained
This is a list of fictional countries supposedly located in North, Central, or South America.
North and South America
A totalitarian superstate combining the United States and the British Empire, in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, consisting of the entire Americas, as well as Great Britain, Ireland, Greenland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, and Southern Africa.
North America
- Aemonkia: a federal democratic communist state under a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship in North America in Dead or Alive series.
- Ayx Empire: a fascist absolute monarchy in North America in the Ninja Gaiden series. It is ruled by the evil Emperor Garuda.
- Magisteria: a North American Germanic, Romance and Slavic English, French, German and Dutch-speaking fascist absolute monarchy in Dead or Alive series. It is ruled by Lord Tatorusis.
- Opium: A country in the novel, The House of the Scorpion.
- San Sombrero
a North American country from a parody travel guidebook; from the same authors as Molvanîa and Phaic Tăn.
- Sarcozia: a republic in North America in WinBack, where the terrorist group the Crying Lions originate from.
Canada
A fictional country from the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. As described by Swift, Brobdingnag extends some 2000 miles westward from Canada's Pacific coast, and is inhabited by a race of giants.
United States
country formed by Evangelical Christians in the former Confederate States of America in the novel Prayers for the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno.
- Commonwealth of American States (CAS): Fictional country located in the territory of what was once the United States in Arthur C. Clarke's The Hammer of God. Its capital is located in Washington, its legislature is called the General Assembly whose members are referred to as senators, and West America is one of its constituent regions.[1] [2]
- Republic of Columbia:
- Countries in Fallout (video game series).
- Caesar's Legion is an autocratic, ultra-reactionary, utilitarian slaver army founded in 2247 by Edward Sallow (Who later adopted the name "Caesar") and Joshua Graham. It is largely inspired and partially based on the ancient Roman Empire, though it isn't the Roman Empire, the Roman Republic or even its military, the Legion. It is a slave army with trappings of foreign-conscripted Roman legionaries during the late empire. All military, no civilian, and with none of the supporting civilian culture. It appears only in .
- The New California Republic (NCR) is a federal presidential republic founded in New California by Aradesh also formerly leader of Shady Sands, comprising five contiguous states and additional territories and holdings in pre-War regions in Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, and parts of Mexico. The Republic dedicates itself to the values of the old world: Democracy, liberty, the rule of law, all in order to make the wasteland a better place. However, its policies resulted in difficulties in recent years. It was founded in 2186, is mentioned in Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, and appears in Fallout 2 & .
- The Enclave is a nation state established after the Great War, formed by members of the pre-War United States government and military industrial complex. It claims authority over the territory of the United States of America, considering itself the legal continuation of the U.S. government and styling itself as such. First appearing in Fallout 2, then later in Fallout 3, its add-on Broken Steel, and is mentioned from its few remaining now retired survivors appearing in Fallout: New Vegas with former soldiers, now followers for the Children of Atom in the Fallout 4 add-on Far Harbor.
- Shi (Fictional Nation) is a post-apocalyptic nation that is against all post-great war politics. It was founded by survived Chinese spies that established most areas from ruins of San Francisco as City State and uses some elements of the Chinese culture, such as their ancestors' customs, clothing, language, and demeanor. The younger generations, however, seem to rely more on the surviving popular culture interpretations of Chinese culture (such as kung-fu holovideos), rather than actual cultural traditions. It appears in Fallout 2 and is indirectly mentioned in Fallout 4.
- Republic of Dave (also formerly called Kingdom of Tom, Kingdom of Larry, the Republic of Stevie-Ray, Billsylvania, and the New Republic of Stevie-Ray) is a small farming settlement in the far northeast corner of the Capital Wasteland (Fallout 3) that is considered by its close-knit inhabitants to be a sovereign nation-state. This nation is actually closer to a Micronation, because since on-off monarchies and republics with an only family control it, and they only had one citizen working as a teacher or merchant (optional) during the game. This "Nation" only appears in Fallout 3.
- The Free Economic Zone of New Vegas is a neoliberal autocratic faction led by Pre-Great War survivor Robert House in Fallout: New Vegas. Although it is formally founded if House establishes sovereignty over the Mojave region, in practice, it exists in a practical capacity throughout Mr House's rule in New Vegas.
- Coalition States: A fascist empire founded upon the post-apocalyptic ruins of the American Midwest in the Rifts role-playing game.[3]
- Countries in Jericho (2006 TV series)
A country in the television series Jericho that forms after nuclear weapons are detonated in many of the United States' major cities. Its capital is Cheyenne, Wyoming, and it controls all of the states west of the Mississippi River, with the exception of Texas.
A country in the television series Jericho. It is only a fictional country because it only rules over the states east of the Mississippi River. Its capital is Columbus, Ohio.
A country that was formerly the state of Texas, but has the same borders. Its capital is San Antonio because Dallas and Houston were destroyed. it sides with the United States of America at the end of season 2.
In the world of The Man in the High Castle the United States has been partitioned by the victorious Axis powers after World War II.
- United States of America, a puppet state of Nazi Germany consisting of the northern east coast of the former United States and several central states. In the television series it is an occupied province called Nazi America or the American Reich.
- "The South", a racist regime in the Southeast of the former United States, which collaborates with Nazi Germany. It does not appear in the television series.
- Monroe Republic was ruled by Sebastian Monroe. His government was a neo-feudal republic dictatorship controlling the former Northeastern United States including Michigan, Wisconsin, most of Virginia, New Jersey, as well as a small part of Canada. The Republic's military, the Monroe Militia, enforces strict laws against citizens owning firearms, which are often punished by death.
- The Patriots are neo-fascist, totalitarian, semi-Paramiltiary/Political group formed from the pre-blackout American government. Their "capital" was Guantánamo Bay before they returned to Washington D.C.
- Georgia Federation is a nation-state with a government largely modeled after pre-blackout america located in the former 'Dixie' states. They have a high population and standard of living.
- Plains Nation, is dominated by Native American-like tribes after blackout, whom circulate a specified territory in the Midwest. There are also many scattered settlements, though they are largely self-governed.
- Texas, a nation located in the former US state of Texas, as well as former Mexican Territory, this nation's governance is mostly like that of pre-blackout america, and a high standard of living is enjoyed. While not as advanced as the Georgia Federation, it is stated to be more militarily capable, and the 'Texas Rangers' are served as the main military force. Whilst military and farming technology here is mundane, Texans show great architectural skill, and even have networked newspapers, most notably the 'Austin Star Times'.
- California Commonwealth, a nation formed from the previous states of California, Oregon and Washington.
- Wasteland, an area shown on a map of the Former continental U.S., it is likely that this area is a lawless region, rather than a political entity.[4]
- Ecotopia
an ecological utopia appearing in the novels Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach. See also Cascadia, a secessionist idea based in part on Callenbach's Ecotopia.
a stereotypical Christian republic in the novel The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
As it appeared on the web following the 2004 Elections.
- Liberion: A country based on the United States of America in Strike Witches.
- New Korean Federation of Occupied America: A totalitarian puppet state formed as a result of an invasion by the Greater Korean Republic in the video game Homefront. Stretches from the West Coast to an irradiated Mississippi River, as well as Alaska and Hawaii, and borders the actual United States east of the Mississippi.
- Opium
from the novel The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer. It is a future nation between Aztlan (formerly Mexico) and the United States. This nation is part of a deal made between the Mexican and American governments and a powerful drug lord named El Patrón, promising that the drugs he makes will be sold in Europe and Asia and will also take care of the illegal immigrant problem if he is allowed a strip of land.
A post-apocalyptic country in "The Hunger Games" Trilogy that exists in parts of what used to be the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It consists of a wealthy city known as The Capitol, as well as Districts 1 through 12, which each provide a certain material for the Capitol's residents. The Districts were forced to send challengers to compete in the Hunger Games, long contests with typically only one winner, the last contestant to remain alive.
Is an Oligarchic Micro or Small nation that only occupies the Griffin household and later invades the Swanson's backyard as "Joehio" in the Family Guy episode "E. Peterbus Unum" and briefly mentioned in "Stew-Roids".
- "Republic" of Boulder City, also called "Boulder Free Zone": It is a re-established democratic city-state formed and founded by "Mother" Abagail in aftermath of World-ending flu; which actually closer of Theocratic-based democracy which formed in Stephen King's The Stand.
- Countries in Russian Amerika, the alternate history novel, has 20th-century North America made up of several independent sovereign nations:[5] The point of divergence is that the United States lost the Civil War with the Confederacy; and as a post-war consequence, the Union loses all ground west of the Mississippi River as American-claimed western lands secede from the Union.
- United States of America (formerly Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York State, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, the majority of Illinois, and the southeastern part of Quebec)
- Confederate States of America (formerly Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, the southwestern portion of Illinois, the eastern half of Kansas, the Philippines, most of Mexico, Cuba, and Hispaniola)
- Republic of Texas (formerly Texas, Oklahoma, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and the majority of New Mexico)
- First People's Nation (formerly Sonora, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Arizona, the westernmost portion of New Mexico, the western half of Kansas, the central and southwestern portion of Ontario, and the southernmost portion of Manitoba)
- Franklin (formerly eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina)
- Deseret (formerly Utah, the northeastern portion of Nevada)
- Republic of California (formerly California, Baja California, Oregon, and the majority of Nevada)
- French Canada (formerly Quebec, Newfoundland, Labrador, the northeastern portion of Ontario)
- British Canada (formerly Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Washington state, the northwestern portion of Ontario, the southeastern portion of the Yukon Territory, and the majority of British Columbia and Manitoba)
- New Spain (formerly Central America)
- Republic of Hawaii (formerly Hawaii, the Outlying Islands)
- Russian Amerika (formerly Alaska, the majority of the Yukon Territory, and the northwestern portion of British Columbia)
- Countries in Crimson Skies
- Industrial States of America, a large industrial nation created by the secession of Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Indiana in the Crimson Skies series. Its capital is Chicago.
- Empire State, a nation formed out of the secession of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the Crimson Skies universe. The capital is New York City.
- Arixo, the republic formed by the merger of the seceded states New Mexico and Arizona in the Crimson Skies series. Its capital is in Phoenix.
- Navajo Territory, a homeland state for the Navajo northern Arizona in the Crimson Skies series.
- Pacifica, the peaceful Crimson Skies nation created out of former British Columbia, Washington state, and Oregon. Its capital is South Vancouver.
- Nation of Hollywood, a bombastic and arrogant nation with its capital in Los Angeles created out of California due to secession in Crimson Skies. Its air force maintains relative hegemony over the Gulf of Mexico.
- People's Collective, a Christian-based communist state with a capital in Omaha created out of the seceded states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa from Crimson Skies.
- Deseret, a Mormon theocratic country created out of Utah in Crimson Skies.
- Lakota Territory, a homeland for the Lakota people created out of annexed land from the states of North Dakota and Montana. From Crimson Skies.
- Confederation of Dixie, a half-revival of the Confederate States of America containing the states of Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas from Crimson Skies. Its capital is in Atlanta.
- Atlantic Coalition, a loose confederacy of the states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut capitaled in Boston from Crimson Skies.
- Free Colorado, a nearly lawless nation capitaled in Denver from Crimson Skies.
- Countries in Fracture:
- The Atlantic Alliance, a nation create out Washington D.C. and most others on the Eastern Seaboard that practice extensive high technology and cyborging to augment it citizens survival. Its capital is very implied be Washington D.C. itself, ruled by Unnamed Atlantican president that have anti-biotechnology policies spark the Second American Civil War in 2161.
- Republic of Pacifica, a nation created out California and several other states on the Western Seaboard that practices extensive bioengineering to augment its citizens survival. Its capital is in San Francisco, it is ruled by General Nathan Sheridan, and its secession sparks the Second American Civil War in 2161.
- United Socialist States of America: A nation from the novel Back in the USSA.
Caribbean
Central America
Central American country, the setting of Amerzone video game.
Central American country based on Honduras in the novel Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry.
Meso-American nation with a population numbering nine million,5% of whom are indigenous Aztec. Featured in episode 18, season 2 of Scorpion.
Central American country from the computer game Hidden Agenda.
an island country somewhere in the Central America, in the 2006 video game Just Cause.
- San Lorenzo: a republic in Central America in both mentioned in Hey Arnold! and later finally appeared in .
- San Marcos (4): civil-war torn Central American country in an episode of MacGyver, in the 1971 motion picture Bananas, in an episode of The A-Team, as well as a 2014 episode of Archer.
- San Pequeño: Country where nurse Gina Cuevas came from on 1990s sitcom Nurses.
- San Sombrèro
Central American country from a parody travel guidebook; from the same authors as Molvanîa and Phaic Tăn.
Central American country in the novel A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone.
Central American country in The Fairly OddParents.
Spanish-speaking country resembling Panama, Nicaragua or maybe Colombia, in the films Commando, Predator and Die Hard 2.
South America
South American country in the film Les Trottoirs de Saturne
country straddling the Andes in the novel High Citadel by Desmond Bagley. Capital: Santillana.
- Costa Gravas: former Communist state, whose dictator Alejandro Goya opens his country up to democratic elections in the TV show Chuck. The name is similar to Greek-born movie director Costa-Gavras.
- Costaguana: from Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, said to be a hybrid of several real countries.
- Country of the Blind
from the short story with the same name by H. G. Wells.
- Cotton Coast: White minority-ruled state located on the Virgin Islands.
- Diamantara: a republic in South America from the anime Michiko & Hatchin.
- Federation of the Americas: a united South America and Central America that invaded the United States in .
- Gran Colombian Empire: a united South American nation with growing influence that goes to war against the United States in the finale season of The Last Ship.
- Hidalgo: a South American country in .
- Inunaguay: An apparently South American nation which appears in the Disney cartoon The Replacements.
- Las Acacias (Republica popular de): Country located inside Argentinian territory, as seen in the Argentinian series Telenoche.
- Luzaguay: A South American country with a dictatorship government which appears in the game Criminal Case. It mixes elements of Paraguay, Uruguay and North Korea.
- Mandoras: A South American country where Adolf Hitler's brain was hidden in Madmen of Mandoras and its extended version, They Saved Hitler's Brain.
- Maple White Land: land of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.
- Miranda / The Mirandan Republic: South American nation from Luis Buñuel's film The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, from which the character Don Rafael is an ambassador to France. It is referred to by several characters as an unpleasant place with a strict military, oppressive leadership, and high murder rate.
- Montenegro: South American nation from Centurions TV series.
- Nova Jambalaya: a Brazilian favela that has become a city-state with a communist-like dictatorship government in Brazilian sitcom Toma Lá, Dá Cá
- Nuevo Rico
South American country from The Adventures of Tintin, neighbouring San Theodoros.
The setting (described as "one of those little republics down there") of Richard Harding Davis' 1897 novel, Soldiers of Fortune.
Fictional country which is developed Condorito comic series.
- Quisto: South American country from Centurions TV series.
- República Popular del Tandil: Republic located inside Argentinian territory, with almost five person with passport, and one embassy in Spain.
- São Rico
Nation located inside the Patagonian region featured on the tenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.
South American nation featured in several of The Adventures of Tintin, home of General Alcazar.
South American country from the film Proof of Life.
from Thomas More's De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia.
- 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.
- Zalay: a republic in South America from the Dead or Alive video game series.
- Zendonia: a communist state in South America from the Dead or Alive video game series.
Unspecified "Latin America" region
- Avalor: Latin American kingdom set in the animated television series Elena of Avalor.
- Baracas: Latin American country set in TV show. It is considered more important for support the torture teams of the U.S. forces in the regional area.
- Cortuguay: Latin American country beset by revolution in the Harold Robbins novel The Adventurers and the 1970 film based on the book.
- Curaguay: a generic Latin American banana republic seen in Hunter (1984 U.S. TV series) (S2E6 Raped Part 1 and S2E7 Raped and Revenge Part 2).
- Curuguay: a generic Latin American banana republic seen in The A-Team.
- Curuguay: a generic Latin America country mentioned in The Equaliser (2021) S02E01
- Parador: Latin American country from the film Moon Over Parador.
- Paragonia: Latin American country in the film The Americano.
- Puerto Guavo: Latin American police state in the Joe 90 episode "Big Fish".
- Republica de los Cocos: a Latin American state in Su Excelencia starring Mario Moreno (commonly known as Cantinflas).
- San Cordova: a democracy in Latin America from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Elixir".
- San Cristobal: a Latin American democracy in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Code".
- San Marcos: Latin American republic in Woody Allen's comedy Bananas.
- San Miguel: small South/Central American dictatorship in the film Deal of the Century.
- San Nicasio: a small country from the TV miniseries Persons Unknown.
- San Pascal: a Latin American country in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Catafalque".
- Santa Fe de Tierra firme: A ficticional American country where Ramón del Valle-Inclán's novel Tyrant Banderas takes place.
- Santales: a small Latin American democracy, from the Mission: Impossible episode "Trek"
- Sapogonia: imaginary country, located somewhere to the south of Mexico, where all mestizos come from, in the novel Sapogonia by Ana Castillo.
Notes and References
- Book: The Hammer of God . 9780795325540 . 30 November 2012 . Rosetta Books .
- Web site: The Hammer of God - Arthur C. Clarke - YouTube . .
- Book: K. . Siembieda . Kevin Siembieda . C. . Bellaire . S. . Therrien . T. . Ward . E. . Wujcik . Erick Wujcik . Rifts Role-Playing Game, Ultimate Edition . limited . August 2005 . . . 1-57457-150-8 . 24–31 . amp.
- Check out a map of North America 15 years after the blackout. Entertainment Weekly. October 17, 2012.
- map provided at beginning of book
