It’s a video game where you are a border guard in a fictional communist state. But also it became an internet meme.
Huh, In didn’t get the Artsakh memo, thanks. I also got that we’re supposed to be saying “Czechia” but apparently so have 99% of English speakers.
Larry Hama’s G.I. Joe run had several made up countries, from Eastern Europe (Borovia and, my favorite, Wolkekuckukkland (German for “Cloud Cockoo Land”), to the Middle East (Trucial Abysmia, Benzheen), and Latin America (Sierra Gordo).
He continued this in the revived series with a tip of the hat to Laurel and Hardy, Olliestan.
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Vltava is the name of the largest Czech river - I don’t know the other one.
Both the cases of this I can think of off the top of my head are real places though - Montevideo, Uruguay, and San Diego, USA. (Superbia was founded over the ruins of Montevideo, and San Diego became Sub Diego for several years before being restored.)
There was a dumb joke a few years back when they where still publishing Justice Society. The aging Johnny Thunder had developed dementia and one of the other characters muttered that he was pretty sure Bandarstan had never existed.
I don’t have the comics where these happened, so I had to look them up.
Qurac’s capital was nuked at some point. This was sometimes referenced in later comics as if the country were destroyed. I had some later Titans comics with a supporting character who was Quraci, and I got the impression the country was just gone.
Also, John Ostrander did something obscene to Vlatava when he was writing The Spectre.
And of course, it’s DC. Parts of Australia were missing after the Dominator invasion; and Dan Jurgens’s Superman run had Coast City (sort of ersatz Seattle, but I always thought it seemed like California) destroyed by Hank Henshaw or somebody.
I can’t believe I forgot Coast City getting it. Kind of an important part of Hal’s fall. :smack:
And, now that I’m thinking about it, didn’t Kahndaq get it near the end of 52? (Checks…Nope, that was Bialya, after they murdered Black Adam’s family.)
Looking up when that happened, I discover that Qurac’s capital is Abu Dhabi, so while Qurac, itself, is fictional, nuking its capital would be a case of destroying a real world city. (The map of Qurac used for its Wikipedia entry (seems to be from an issue of Suicide Squad) shows it as carved out of most of Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, and a sliver of Saudi Arabia to tie all that together.)
Coast City is in California. It’s Star City (Green Arrow’s hometown) that’s often treated as a pseudo-Seattle (since Green Arrow operated out of Seattle for some years), though it was also officially in California for several years. Currently, it’s no longer a pseudo-Seattle, it’s actually a new name for what used to be Seattle.
Of course you can extrapolate from one data point. The name “Canada” is an Huron-Iroquois word for “village”. “Israel” is a Biblical Hebrew name that means “Who prevails with God”. Any similarly sounding Indian word (or Indian-sounding) would imply a country in northern North America.
Hebrew or Biblical words (or sounding words) would imply a Jewish state.
Which doesn’t actually address them problem.
If your not-Canada is meant to exist in a world that could be mistaken for the real world, it’s obvious to anyone who’s seen a world map, especially one who’d get that reference, there’s no place in that region it could actually go - Canada and the US are the second and third largest countries in the world, so they obviously take up the whole area.
A good candidate for placing a fictional country is an area with a lot of smaller countries, not a couple huge ones.
Hence tiny forgotten-about principalities, grand duchies and Balkan micro-states, like Pontevedro (The Merry Widow), Averno (an Albert Campion mystery), Strackenz (Royal Flash), Grand Fenwick (The Mouse That Roared), and of course good old Ruritania.
Marvel Comics has a lot of fictional countries as well: Latveria, Wakanda, Genosha, Symkaria, Transia.
They released The Marvel Atlas in 2008 which is an atlas of the Marvel Universe showing all their fictional countries and locations.
Huh. I just realized that Wakanda is the only fictional African country I can think of. Plenty of fictional tribes, but no other fictional countries.
That’s where my family came from. But it is not heavily Jewish.
How about the Duchy of Grand Fenwick?
Three pages and no mention of Ankh-Morpork? With Klatch, Ephebia, Djelybabi and a whole host of other Discworld states standing in for European, Asian and African countries.
Those are places in a fictional world-- If we’re going there, we could also include Gondor, Narnia, Amn, and all sorts of other places. This is about fictional places somewhere in what is otherwise our world.
Zamunda?
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I think I might have seen part of that movie when I was a kid, but sure didn’t know where he was from.
Kôr, where* She* lives & rules.