Throughout popular culture, authors and other producers have chosen to satirize or else refer to real places by providing fictional equivalents to them. Sometimes, this is accepted by those being parodied since, while it resembles their country, they can tell that it isn't meant to be a true representation. In other cases, it becomes so controversial that that work never sees the light of day in that country, or is forced to radically change its production for one reason or another. An effort is made to list this fictional countries and what real places they replace here.
There are a number of things to keep in mind when reading the following table of character equivalency:
There are a number of things to keep in mind when reading the following table of character equivalency:
- an asterisk (*) indicates a part of a country which is independent in this world but not in actual history
- a circumflex (^) will be used to indicate a "conditional replacement," a fictional character who replaces a real person only in select parallel dimensions or split timelines
Real Place
Afghanistan
Albania Beaver Dam, Wisconsin Bellingshausen Island Bighorn Mountains Billings, Montana Bristol Island Bulgaria Candlemas Island Commercial Township, New Jersey Cook Island Dorrance, Kansas Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopian Empire (1137-1974) Hormozgan Province, Iran Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City, Missouri Lewes, Delaware Libya Liechtenstein Maurice River Township, New Jersey Monaco Montagu Island Mozambique Nanga Parbat Nepal Pakistan Panama Petaluma, California Peter I Island Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin Pretoria, South Africa San Martín Base San Rafael, California Santa Rosa, California Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan Saunders Island Singapore South Sandwich Islands St. Helena and Wynot, Nebraska Syria Thule Island Tiverton, Rhode Island Vindication Island Visokoi Island Vojvodina Zambia Zavodovski Island Zimbabwe |
Fictional Replacement
Helmajistan
Syldavia Fawcett City Leapshort Arklay Mountains Raccoon City Leaplong Krakozhia Leapup Blüdhaven Leapround Smallville Buranda Equatorial Kundu Zangaro Wadiya Azania Qumar* Keystone City Central City Metropolis Carbombya Bretzelburg Gotham City Genovia Leapthrough Mombaka Nanda Parbat Kyrat Qumran (formerly Kumranistan) Val Verde Hill Valley Rockfort Island Point Place Archona Umbrella Corporation Antarctic Base Coast City Star City Midway City Leapover Madripoor Leap Islands Blue Valley Bialya Leapunder Happy Harbor Leapdown Leaplow Kasnia* Zamunda Leaphigh Matobo |
Source Material
Full Metal Panic!
Tintin DC Comics The Monikins Resident Evil Resident Evil The Monikins The Terminal The Monikins DC Comics The Monikins DC Comics Yes, Minister The West Wing and The Newsroom The Dogs of War The Dictator Scoop The West Wing DC Comics DC Comics DC Comics Transformers Spirou et Fantasio DC Comics The Princess Diaries The Monikins Red Scorpion DC Comics Far Cry Yes, Minister 20th Century Fox media Back to the Future Resident Evil That '70s Show The Domination of the Draka Resident Evil DC Comics DC Comics DC Comics The Monikins Marvel Comics The Monikins DC Comics DC Comics The Monikins DC Comics The Monikins The Monikins DC Comics Coming to America The Monikins The Interpreter |