Science fabrication and fancy stories can inhabit worlds that we are familiar with , even though they have no basis in realism : Narnia , Middle - Earth , Westeros , Tatooine , etc . Then there are fabricated nations stick in into moving picture , TV , comics , and other pop culture media that are vaguely reminiscent of real places , but the name is made up to deflect offense . You might remember a few of these .
1. Freedonia
In the 1933 Marx Brothers ’ movieDuck Soup , the character Rufus T. Firefly ( play by Groucho ) is made authoritarian of the land of Freedonia for ensure a square loan froma society matronwho visualise him . However , the name Freedonia was in use before the movie , as a euphemism for a free nation , often the U.S. It was also used afterwards for anexperimental micronationin the 1990s .
2. Lower Slobbovia
Al Capp invented the state of Lower Slobbovia in 1946 for his amusing stripLi’lAbner . mean to be a euphemism for Siberia , the inhabitants of that arctic area lived in shank - recondite snow at all prison term . In the twelvemonth since , Lower Slobbovia hascome to mean“any home considered to be distant , poor , or uninstructed . ”
3. Moronica
In 1940 , the Three Stooges parodied Adolf Hitler in the shortYou Nazty Spy!Moe , a jack of all trades , became the potentate of a country called Moronica . Moedons a greasepaint mustacheand takes over the country .
4. Starvania
Moronica is part of Starvania , which is an integral fictional continent , featured again on a map in the 1949 Three Stooges shortMalice in the Palace . As you could see in the map above , it has plenty of Carry Nation , each onenamed with a antic in judgment . In this version , Moronica has been replaced by Oomphola . The “ face ” of the continent is not so sick by 1949 .
5. Elbonia
The Republic of Elboniais referred to in the comic strip Dilbert . It is an Eastern European land that is slowly emerging from under communist rule , although experimental condition are still dismal and job are scarce . In fact , political tension split Elbonia in two , withNorth Elboniareturning to a communistic system and South Elbonia persist under a dictatorship . The country is covered in a waist - abstruse level of mud , and mud is their biggest export . Dilbert ’s party outsources work to Elbonia to economize money .
6. Grand Fenwick
LeonardWibberleywrote a serial of books about the expiration - on in a fictitious European dukedom named Grand Fenwick . The first al-Qur’an , The Mouse That Roared , wasmade into a moviein 1959 . In the story , Grand Fenwick is a flyspeck Alpine state with few resource and slight money , but it managed to win a warfare against the U.S. because no one took their invasion in earnest ( although the aim was to suffer and get foreign aid to rebuild ) . That picture was follow byThe Mouse on the Moonin 1963 , in which Grand Fenwick beat both the Americans and the Russians to the moon .
7. San Sombrèro
The nation ofSan Sombrèro(autoplay phone ) is a key American commonwealth that survive only in a locomotion guide . The 2006 bookSan Sombrèro : a Land of funfair , Cocktails and Coups , is a pasquinade of travelling template , filled with stereotypes in a somewhat - credible format , but with jokes nestled in every section . San Sombrèro raised the literacy charge per unit by incarcerate or deporting illiterate people . The byname “ the Venice of Central America ” is attributed to coastal metropolis that are sinking . The screenshot above is from a video of San Sombrèro ’s interior anthem “ LaBababumba , ” which feature quite a bit of twerking . The Jetlag travel guides also let in a the European fictional countryMolvania : A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistryand the Asian nationPhaic Tan : Sunstroke on a Shoestring .
8. San Serriffe
SanSeriffesounds like a lovely lieu to visit , a tropic island country in the Indian Ocean . It was cooked up by the British newspaperThe Guardianin 1977for April Fool ’s Day . But after reading the seven - pageboy special paper , you have to say , what a country ! you’re able to get an overview ofthe island ’s geography , history , and culture . Every aspect of this state is typographic , just like its name . The capital city is Bodoni , the major islands are Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse , and the country is ruled by General Maria - Jesu Pica .
