Fictitious Countries in TV and Film

[SpeedRacer]

Hail Freedonia!

Does New New York count?

No, that's a city built atop the ruins of New York.

It could be as big as a nation, which reminds me: Mega-City One, Mega-City Two and Texas City from Judge Dredd could all be regarded as nations.

I was about to start listing all of the other Mega Cities, but then I realized that could take a while.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_dredd#Dredd.27s_world

 

[DsZ]

There's always Svenborgia... and that other country only rich people know about.

 

[Kegek]

No, that's a city built atop the ruins of New York.

It could be as big as a nation,

Well, sure. But lots of things are as big as a nation. Which doesn't mean much considering how small a nation can be. New York as-is has twice the population of many nations and is as bit larger than some very small ones... but it's not a nation.

 

[Roshi]

Cagliostro from "Castle of Cagliostro"

You have excellent taste, Emher!

 

[captcalhoun]

i love Uberwald in the Discworld books...

 

[Harvey]

Caspiar

I'll live.

Actually, I saw a number of the early Foreign Man appearances when they originally aired and I don't remember Caspiar at all.

And I've never heard of Kaufman. I'm afraid I'm not an encyclopaedia of American comedians.

You might be interested in seeing Man on the Moon, with Jim Carey. I was very, very surprised by the film. I was even more surprised to discover, through youtube, that it was almost entirely accurate.

 

[Mistral]

Since Muir Island was mentioned-wouldn't Genosha count?

I was surprised not long ago to learn that Transylvania is a real part of Romania. I thought Bram Stoker invented it.

I'm not surprised at all-my great-grandfather was born there. Why, yes, my eye teeth are a bit pointy-why do you ask?

 

[Mitty]

Without reading through this whole thread, I'm assuming somebody must have mentioned my favourite fictional country of all time, Zamunda?

 

[M'Sharak]

The 'Search Thread' feature says that you're the first to mention it.

 

[Swarles Barkley]

Don't forget the "Isle of Lucy" from "This is Spinal Tap".

 

[Emher]

Cagliostro from "Castle of Cagliostro"

You have excellent taste, Emher!

Then thing is I'm almost ashamed to call myself an anime fan since I just saw that for the first time the other night Did enjoy it tremendously though, was intresting to see a Lupin flick from a time where Inspector Zenigata was still serious. Not that I hate the new ones, but they are a tad formulaic.

 

[ToddPence]

"Ruritania" from "The Prisoner of Zenda".

That's the one that sprang to mind for me too. So famous it's now almost accepted as a standard for a fictional European country.

Ruritania was the model for Edgar Rice Burrough's "Lutha" as well as the "Calbia" featured in the Doc Savage adventure "The King Maker". Ruritania was also treated as an actual historical place in one of the novels from Simon Hawke's Time Wars series, and is made the scenario for a crucial "temporal adjustment" for its time police. The great Edmond Hamilton also nicked the "Prisoner of Zenda" plot and played it out on a galactic-wide scale in "The Star Kings."

 

[stj]

Graustark is often mentioned as an imitation of Ruritania.

 

[Sci]

Plottsilvania.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Who can forget Derkaderkastan?

 

[Fist McStrongpunch]

Vembria and Panda-la from TaleSpin.