List of fictional countries by region explained
This list of fictional countries groups fictional countries and imagined nations together, by the region of the world in which they are supposed to be located.
Africa
Bahari: North African country from Scorpion
Beninia: African nation from Stand on Zanzibar
Bozatta: African nation from Scorpion
Buranda: African nation from Yes Minister
Carbombya, Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of: North African country from Transformers
Clonka Minkus: African country created by British animator David Firth for his series The News Hasn't Happened Yet.
Dahomalia: African nation from Stand on Zanzibar
Democratic Republic of Dahum: African nation from James Bond novel Solo
Gafir: A fictional nation situated at the cross roads of the red sea, littered with desert, once under British rule until the year 1950, was created as an April Fools' Day joke as Instagram’s country of the day in 2018.
Gindra: East African country from
Kangan: African nation from Anthills of the Savannah
Sangala: West African country from 24
Wakanda: Small African nation featured in the Marvel Comics series The Avengers. The nation is ruled by King T'Challa, also known as the superhero Black Panther.
See Fictional African countries.
Americas
See Fictional American countries.
Antarctica
- Hili-liland: a nation near the South Pole, founded by Ancient Romans, in the 1899 novel A Strange Discovery by Charles Romeyn Dake. It is south of Tsalal and has a more developed civilization. It consists of Hili-li City on Hili-li Island, along with some outlying island colonies.
- Leaphigh, Leaplow, Leapup, Leapdown, Leapover, Leapthrough, Leaplong, Leapshort, Leapround, Leapunder: ten independent kingdoms in the Antarctic archipelago of the Leap Islands, in the 1835 novel The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper
- Tsalal: an island in the 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe and its 1897 sequel An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne. It has a tribal society led by a chief, Too-Wit.
Asia
See Fictional Asian countries.
Oceania
Europe
See main article: List of fictional European countries.
Island nations
Antarctic
- Hili-liland: a nation near the South Pole, founded by Ancient Romans, in the 1899 novel A Strange Discovery by Charles Romeyn Dake. It is south of Tsalal and has a more developed civilization. It consists of Hili-li City on Hili-li Island, along with some outlying island colonies.
- Leaphigh, Leaplow, Leapup, Leapdown, Leapover, Leapthrough, Leaplong, Leapshort, Leapround, Leapunder: ten independent kingdoms in the Antarctic archipelago of the Leap Islands, in the 1835 novel The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper
Atlantic
- Birdwell Island: de facto independent island community in the Clifford the Big Red Dog series similar in geography and custom to an islands off of the east coast of the United States.
- Fröland: Island in the North Sea in the Dutch TV series Fröland - country?
- Islandia
self-isolated country in Austin Tappan Wright's novel Islandia
- Sahrani: Atlantic island divided into the northern communist Democratic Republic of Sahrani and the oil-rich democratic monarchy of the Kingdom of South Sahrani in the video game Armed Assault
Caribbean
- Barclay Islands (the Barclays): British-dependent Caribbean archipelago off the Bahamas embroiled in conflict between Castro's Cuba and the drug trade in Frederick Forsyth's novel The Deceiver.
- Booty Island: a pirate island in the Caribbean Sea in the game , part of the Tri-Island area (governed by Elaine Marley)
- Cascara: a tiny Caribbean island in the movie Water
- Cayuna: an imaginary Caribbean island modelled on Jamaica in the novels of John Hearne
- Crab Island: poor Caribbean island shaped like a crab, under the domination of Crocodile Island, in the Patrouille des Castors comics
- Crocodile Island: Caribbean island shaped like a crocodile, with a dictatorial government which seems to be heavily influenced by Tahiti, in the Patrouille des Castors comics
- Guarma: A Caribbean island east of Cuba that Arthur Morgan, Dutch, Javier, Micah, and Bill Gets stranded on in Chapter 5 of Red Dead Redemption 2
- Jambalaya Island: an ex-pirate island in the Caribbean, turned to a tourist attraction center, in Escape from Monkey Island
- Mêlée Island: a pirate island in the Caribbean Sea, from the Monkey Island games, part of the Tri-Island area (governed by Elaine Marley)
- Phatt Island: an island in the Caribbean in the game
- Plunder Island: a pirate island in the Caribbean in the game The Curse of Monkey Island, part of the Tri-Island area (governed by Elaine Marley)
- Porto Santo
a tiny island nation in Latin America visited by Steve Urkel in the Family Matters episode "South of the Border" (Note: Porto Santo is a real island of Madeira Archipelago)
a tiny, rocky island nation located in the Caribbean Sea in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
- San Marcos (2): Caribbean island from an episode of The A-Team
- San Monique: Caribbean nation run by a drug lord in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die
- Santa Costa: Caribbean island dictatorship from the pilot episode of . Appears to lie somewhere between Cuba and the Venezuelan coast on a map seen–briefly–at the start of the episode.
- Scabb Island: an anarchic pirate island in the Caribbean in the game
- Skull Island (2): a small pirate island in the Caribbean in the game The Curse of Monkey Island
- Tropico: island nation in the Caribbean in the Tropico computer game
Indian Ocean
a land where all the people are tiny from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Enemies of Lilliput
an island nation which was established as a mutant homeland in Marvel Comics
- Houyhnhnms Land: a land where horses rule. The animalistic human-like creatures in this land are called Yahoos. From the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
- Ishkebar: small island nation between India and Thailand from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody TV series, episode "Boston Holiday"
- Javasu: an island in the Indian Ocean, the alleged country of "Princess Caraboo"
- Lilliput
a land where all the people are tiny from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Pala: island utopia in Aldous Huxley's Island
- Saint Georges Island
an island nation located somewhere in the Arabian Sea. It was the centrepoint of the episode A Victory for Democracy from the sitcom, Yes, Prime Minister.
from King Kong movie(s)
Mediterranean
Mediterranean island state in the Over the Edge roleplaying game
- Barataria: island kingdom, presumably somewhere in the Mediterranean. The setting for Act II of the operetta The Gondoliers, by Gilbert and Sullivan.
- Mervo: an island principality in the Mediterranean in the novel The Prince and Betty by P. G. Wodehouse
- Mypos: island nation around the Greek isles, home of Balki from Perfect Strangers
- Pathos: neighbor of Mypos, part of a different Tri-Island Area in Perfect Strangers
- Skeptos: neighbor of Mypos, part of a different Tri-Island Area in Perfect Strangers
Pacific
- Baki: homeland of Omio in Madeleine L'Engle's writing, a small Pacific island nation once dominated by British
- Balnibarbi: land containing the metropolis called Lagado from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Bensalem: utopian island nation located somewhere off the Western coast of the continent of America from Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis
- Caspak: a huge island country located in the South seas somewhere between South America and Australia from Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot and its sequels
- Eleutheria
an island nation in the Southwest Pacific Ocean from the Eleutheria Model Parliament role playing game.
an island nation somewhere in the South China Sea in the movie Surf Ninjas as well as in the film The Last Electric Knight and the TV series Sidekicks. Also mentioned in Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. ????
- Taka-Tuka-Land: Astrid Lindgren's book about Pippi Longstocking mentions a travel to this country in the third book of the series. Pippi's father was a king there in the South Sea.
- Toga Toga Islands: South Pacific island nation featured on The A-Team
- Vanutu: a tiny South Pacific nation consisting of four atolls from the novel State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Other or uncertain
- Aquabania: an idyllic island, the supposed home of The Aquabats
- Cacklogallinia: a kingdom off the coast of South America, from A Voyage to Cacklogallinia by Captain Samuel Brunt
- Cap'D'Far: a small island country from an episode of Scarecrow and Mrs. King whose only export was fish bones
- Dinotopia
a hidden, utopian island from James Gurney's illustrated books
- Flyspeck Island: home of Gunk in the comic strip Curtis -- country?
- Huella Islands: islands off the coast of Cayenne, mentioned in the Hardy Boys books. They are ruled by dictator Juan Posada and their "spy chief" is named Bedoya. The adjective is Huellan.
- Istan: an island state in the online role-playing game, Guild Wars Nightfall
- Lucre Island: a pirate island in the game, Escape from Monkey Island
- Malevelosia: an island kingdom filled with supervillains in Justice Squad
- Mardi archipelago: from Herman Melville's Mardi and a Voyage Thither
- Mesa de Oro: unstable Latin American island in the Three Young Investigators series. (The name means "golden table" in Spanish.)
- Nollop: island state from the novel Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
- San Cristobel: tropical island country in The Guiding Light TV series, also the name for a separate fictional nation in the TV series Automan
- San Esperito: South American island nation from the video game Just Cause. Translated in English means "St. espionage".
- Pokoponesia: island nation from the animated version of The Tick
Transcontinental
A country based in North America which controls the whole Americas, Japan, New Zealand, and parts of the Middle East. From the Japanese anime franchise Code Geass
from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- Holy Russian Empire: A country from the HOI4 mod, .
- United Americas: A conglomerate of North and Latin America mentioned in the Alien series.
- Yukon Confederacy: a country in the novel Fitzpatrick's War by Theodore Judson, which includes North America, Great Britain, and Australia.
Uncertain
- Agraria: Eastern country in the film You Know What Sailors Are
- Altruria: utopian country from William Dean Howells' A Traveler from Altruria
- Anemia: a country in the film Hot Stuff. Bears the same name as the medical condition.
- Ancapistan: a Libertarian utopia created by anarcho capitalists
- Angria: imaginary country from the poems of the Brontë sisters.
- Arcacia: mythical kingdom in the film A Royal Family
- Ardistan: from the novel Ardistan and Dschinnistan by Karl Friedrich May
- Aslan: from anime Area 88. Sometimes also transliterated Asran.
- Auspasia: the noisiest and most talkative nation in the world; appears in Georges Duhamel's Lettres d'Auspasie and La dernier voyage de Candide
- Bahavia: country where Meena Paroom's father is the ambassador in the Disney Channel series, "Cory In The House".
- Bahkan: a nation threatened by the Federated Peoples' Republic in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Fool's Gold"
- Borginia: a republic from the videogame Dino Crisis. It also appears in and , in which it is stated as being in northern Europe.
- Bregna: a centralized scientific planned state from the animated series Aeon Flux
- Bukistan: an Islamic country in the Cary Grant movie Dream Wife. Later referred to in I dream of Jeannie.
- Calia: from Modesty Blaise episode "The Jericho Caper"
- Candover: medieval country in the novel Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle
- Celama, Kingdom of: mythical land where inhabitants fight for survival as a challenge to their dignity in novels El reino de Celama by Luis Mateo Díez
- Chekia: mythical kingdom in the film The Only Thing
- Chernarus: post-soviet Republic from the game DayZ and ArmA 2
- Coronia: a kingdom from the film King, Queen and Joker
- Danu: setting of Timothy Mo's 1991 novel The Redundancy of Courage, based on East Timor
- Derkaderkastan: from the film
- Dschinnistan (Djinnistan): in the novel Ardistan and Dschinnistan by Karl Friedrich May
- Eastern Coalition of Nations: in , the Eastern Coalition of Nations (ECON) was one of the major powers involved in World War III
- Ecuarico: homeland of an exiled dictator in an episode of Gilligan's Island
- Eretz: home of a visiting prime minister, Salka Palmir, in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man ('Eretz' is Hebrew for 'land')
- Far Eastern Republic: a nation from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Commandante"
- Federated Peoples' Republic: a nation hostile toward the Kingdom of Bahkan in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Fool's Gold". Possibly the same as the Federated People's Republic: from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Time Bomb".
- Filemonia: one of the countries resulting of the 1991 collapse of USSR as told in Mortadelo y Filemón: El 35 Aniversario
- Findas: country sunk under the waves in The Book of Conquests by Jim Fitzpatrick
- Forest Kingdom: from Simon Green's Blue Moon Rising. Ruled by King John.
- Freiland: from Freiland by Theodor Hertzka
- Gavel: the republic in the animated picture Ghost in the Shell
- Gnubia: from television series MacGyver
- Gondour
an ideal republic imagined by Mark Twain in his short story The Curious Republic of Gondour.
- Guamania: from the French-Canadian series Dans une Galaxie près de chez vous
- Guravia: a country where the first robot president was elected in the Astro Boy animated series
- Gzbfernigambia: a kingdom from the film Such a Little Queen
- Herland
in the novel Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Hetland: a kingdom from the film Such a Little Queen
- Hillsdown: duchy in Simon Green's Blue Moon Rising. Ruled by Duke Alaric.
- Inguanaguay: Fictional country in Disney cartoon The Replacements.
- Kabulstan: a xenophobic third world military dictatorship in an episode of MacGyver
- Kafaristan: from William Rose Benét's children's book The Flying King of Kurio
- Kajsa (Casha, Kasha): a sultanate, neighbor to Basenji from the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie
- Kamburu: totalitarian desert nation secretly ruled by a fugitive alien, based on Iraq or Libya, in the comic book mini-series
- Kampong: from the novel The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
- Kazahrus: an absolute monarchy known for Human Rights violations from the third season of Blindspot
- Kekistan
based on the word "Kek", a variant of the acronym “LOL” (laugh out loud).
a small independent country facing the Mediterranean Sea from Time Crisis 3 video game. It neighbors Astigos, a small, peaceful island in the Mediterranean Sea.
utopian country from A Description of the Famous Kingdom of Macaria (1641), published by Samuel Hartlib, now attributed to Gabriel Plattes
- Malicuria: a monarchy run by Emperor Aleister, while Princess Mallory is his daughter, from the episode "April's Fool" of the 1987-1996 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon TV series. The episode is set on the Malicurian embassy in the United States.[1]
- Mandavia: a kingdom in the film Speed King
- Marnsburg: a member of the United Nations hostile to the United States in the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Imitation"
- Monica: an anarchist state from the animated series Aeon Flux
- Morevana: a kingdom in which fat is prized in the film The Slim Princess
- Moribundia: from Patrick Hamilton's Impromptu in Moribundia
- Mortadelonia: one of the countries resulting of the 1991 collapse of USSR as told in Mortadelo y Filemón: El 35 Aniversario
- Isle of Naboombu: kingdom of anthropomorphic animals in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- New Swissland: Nation southwest of Greenland in the Captain Underpants series. Every person born in this country is given a ridiculous name at birth.
- Nivia: from the Photon TV series
- Nordenija: republic created by British artist Chris Shade
- Norgborg: Small nation located within the Arctic Circle, featured in San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups.[2]
- Nouvelle Atlantide or New Atlantis: a huge, rich, powerful, and very far from peaceful nation in Anatole France's Penguin Island. Similar to the United States.
- Opperland: a fictitious country based on the Netherlands where the Dutch language is treated entertainingly, http://www.opperland.nl/
- Oriosa: Tarrant Hawkin's home country in Michael A. Stackpole's series The Dragon Crown War Cycle.
- Ostnitz: country from the Border Zone computer game
- The Land of Oz: L. Frank Baum's Oz books as well as the novel and play Wicked and its sequels.
- Perusalem: land ruled by The Inca of Perusalem in the short satiric play by George Bernard Shaw
- Petoria: from the "E. Peterbus Unum" episode of Family Guy
- Pianostan: a country once visited by Inspector Gadget where its people remain happy so long as their King remains miserable
- Pomerania: a nation in the film Anchors Aweigh. It has a navy which accepts non-Pomeranians. Not to be confused with the real Pomerania, formerly a region of Prussia.
- Radiata: Home country in Radiata Stories
- Realia: a republic in the Boiling Point video game
- La Republica de las Bananas (literally, "banana republic"): from the board game Junta
- Riallaro archipelago: from Godfrey Sweven's Riallaro, the Archipelago of Exiles
- Rolisica: country in the film Mothra most likely a disguise of the United States. Capital city: New Kirk.
- San Gordio: a kingdom in the film The Cowboy Prince
- San Pedro: from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"
- Sercia: a republic in Time Crisis video game
- Serena Republic: a small country mentioned in the Metal Gear Acid 2 video game
- Tanah Masa: from Karel Čapek's War with the Newts
- Taronia: from the film Thirty Day Princess
- Tawaki: from the film Man of the Moment
- Termina: the country in which takes place.
- Tirania (also Republic of Tirania): country governed by dictator Bruteztrausen; Spanish secret agents Mortadelo and Filemón helped depose Bruteztrausen and president Rompetechen was then elected.
- Tontecarlo: a gambler's paradise in Superlópez comic-books until Superlópez's tourism visit. Clearly based on Monte Carlo; "Tonte" refers to Spanish word tonto (=fool).
- Trobokistan: former Soviet satellite nation in Totally Spies! TV series
- Ünderland: a small duchy bordering Michigan, from The Venture Bros. animated TV series. Formerly ruled by supervillain Baron Ünderbheit, now a democracy under the presidency of Girl Hitler.
- Unistat: analogue of the United States in the Schrödinger's Cat trilogy of Robert Anton Wilson
- The United States of Anatidae: Duckworld equivalent of the United States in the film Howard the Duck.
- Valaria: a kingdom in the film The Colonel of the Red Hussars
- Valeria: Spanish speaking democracy from Mission: Impossible episode "Wheels"
- Valeska: a tropical country from the Three Stooges short Saved by the Belle
- Vambria: an Arctic communist dictatorship on the 1990s Disney animated TV series TaleSpin
- Vandreka: see Bandrika
- Versovia: dictatorship from Australian children's miniseries Eugenie Sandler P.I. from ABC Kids
- Volsinia: the country with unknown location in Frritt-Flacc by Jules Verne
- Yudonia: a country mentioned in the episode "We're Married" from Drake & Josh sitcom. Very similar to countries like Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
- Zagorias Federation: Mediterranean country, featured in Time Crisis 3 video game, which invades Astigos, a small island, a territory of the neighbouring nation of Lukano
- Zanzibar Land
sole nuclear power in the Metal Gear series of video games
Pun-based names
country appearing in several Donald Duck stories, possibly referring to the Soviet Union
- Contraria: from the series WordGirl is the homeland of Nocan the Contrarian.
- Double Crossia: a country mentioned in the Three Stooges short You Nazty Spy
- Elbonia
Eastern European country from the comic strip Dilbert
- Jumbostan and Unsteadystan: from the world of Donald Duck
- Lower Slobbovia: ice-covered wasteland from the comic strip Li'l Abner
- North Elbonia: A Communist neighbour of Elbonia (see above); loosely based on North Korea.
- San Glucos: from The Simpsons episode "Sweets and Sour Marge"
- Yurp: a poor country depicted in I Am Weasel animated TV series (pun on "Europe")
- Zombikistan: possibly Eastern European country mentioned in MadWorld as being the original location of Mad Castle and whose major export is apparently zombies.
Notes and References
- Web site: Episode 29 on www.ninjaturtles.com. 29 December 2009. Mirage Studios.
- [Tom Gleisner|Gleisner, T.]
