# Tjaikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan...  suffix -stan?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tjaikistan-uzbekistan-kazakhstan-suffix-stan/321489>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 13, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tjaikistan-uzbekistan-kazakhstan-suffix-stan/321489 "2005-09-13T21:15:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eurograff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Eurograff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eurograff)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tjaikistan-uzbekistan-kazakhstan-suffix-stan/321489/21 "2005-09-15T00:39:46Z")

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I don’t know how popular this is in English-speaking culture, but in Germany and much of Eastern Europe the term **Absurdistan** is often used to describe certain conditions (eg. nonsensical law gets passed, people sigh “Welcome to Absurdistan”). It gets as much google hits as, say, Waziristan. There’s even a movie called [Geboren in Absurdistan](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235413/).

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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tjaikistan-uzbekistan-kazakhstan-suffix-stan/321489/22 "2005-09-15T03:15:50Z")

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[Nukehavistan](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/37474), they’re the ones to watch out for!

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