Fictitious Countries in TV and Film

[captcalhoun]

Maluda from The Unit

Bezerkistan from Doonesbury (okay, okay, not TV or film, but hey someone mentioned Lower Slobbovia and Elbonia)

Sierra Gordo from the GI Joe comics (S. American banana republic that suffers a revolution, which govt. buys arms from Cobra while the Joes aid the counter-revolutionaries.)

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

"Moon Over Parador" features, as you might guess, a country called Parador.

It's not on film, but the Three Investigators novel "The Secret of the Silver Spider" took place in Varania.

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

 

[stj]

How could we have left out the great power amongst the fictional nations?
The Grand Duchy of Fenwick, the Mouse That Roared.

You Bastard! I thought, "No one is going to even mention that one"-I'm going to claim the Golden No-Prize and the Margarine Dildo award! (Throws self on ground and pounds dirt with fists) It's not fair!!!!

So my entry is Wakanda. Top that, Biaaatch!(Oh, wait, crap, you already did...).

I liked the movie too. By the way, Leonard Wibberley wrote a sequel I think.

 

[doubleohfive]

Moldavia - Dynasty.
Mypos - Perfect Strangers
Londinium (city) - Batman
Smallville - Smallville
Caprica (planet) - nuBSG


How funny that you posted this thread. I'm currently working on a pilot that deals extensively with the politics of a fictional nation.

 

[nx1701g]

San Monique from James Bond.

 

[M'Sharak]

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Sorry, I've got no idea what that's from. It's sort of hard to think of a fictitious country you've never heard of before.

Yeah... never heard of that either.

You're both dead to me.

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. In fact, part of Kaufman's schtick in the beginning was that you couldn't understand anything he was saying -- it all sounded like gibberish.

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

Not only is it real, but the man held to be the main historical model for the character of Dracula in Stoker's novel was a 15th-century provincial governor or prince there whose methods of rule were so ruthless and cruel that he earned the name "Vlad the Impaler". The name "Dracula" is taken from from a surname originally held by Vlad's father, who had only a slightly less nasty reputation.

 

[Kegek]

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.

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

Not only is it real, but the man held to be the main historical model for the character of Dracula in Stoker's novel was a 15th-century provincial governor or prince there whose methods of rule were so ruthless and cruel that he earned the name "Vlad the Impaler". The name "Dracula" is taken from from a surname originally held by Vlad's father, who had only a slightly less nasty reputation.

Though it's also worth noting that Bram Stoker's knowledge of Vlad Tepes was sketchy at best. The vampire was originally called Count Wampyr, and it was when researching details to make his Transylvania more convincing (a place he'd never been to) that he stumbled across a few paragraphs describing one voivode Dracula; a footnote noting (iirc inaccurately) that Dracula meant 'devil'; hence Dracula's alias of Count de Ville later in the novel.

 

[captcalhoun]

Moldavia is a frequent fake E europe country name, but is actually based on the real Moldova.

the bad guy in Ghostbusters II was from Moldavia where he sat on a throne of blood in a castle of pain on a mountain of skulls.


fun place...

 

[Kegek]

Moldavia is a frequent fake E europe country name, but is actually based on the real Moldova.

Not entirely, although there is a relationship between Moldavia and Moldova.

 

[Roshi]

Muir Island in the X-Men and Syldavia in Tintin.

 

[M'Sharak]

Moldavia is a frequent fake E europe country name, but is actually based on the real Moldova.

Not entirely, although there is a relationship between Moldavia and Moldova.

Yes, they're essentially names in two different languages for the same region, currently split into two different political entities.

http://www.eliznik.org.uk/RomaniaHistory/moldavia-history.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavian_SSR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavia#Name

 

[Nardpuncher]

Hatay in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

 

[Holdfast]

"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.

 

[HRHTheKING]

The Isle Of Sodor

 

[Shaytan]

You probably don't know this one but Groland was the 1st one I remebered when I saw this thread.

 

[Roshi]

^Damn! How could I forget Groland?!
I even have the bumper sticker and the Passeport Grolandais...

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

"I go Krakosia"

 

[Emher]

Cagliostro from "Castle of Cagliostro"

 

[UssGlenn]

Hatay in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Actually existed between September 7, 1938 to June 29, 1939.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Hatay

 

[Trekker4747]

Hatay in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Actually existed between September 7, 1938 to June 29, 1939.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Hatay

Eh. It exsisted for 9 months, close enough to being fictitious.