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In this article. They mention several times the countries from the game Papers, Please , however. Although they mentioned it a few times. The country of Antegria is missing. Unfortunately, I know little about the country, lesser so how to edit this page without destroying it accidentally. So if someone could help on that, it’d b great.
Map 2603:7081:5407:C700:1C12:914E:278A:55DC ( talk) 00:29, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
I don't think the Discworld locations belong in this list, as they are not "on the surface of the earth as we know it" but on "a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle" (quote from the Wikipedia article on Discworld). 2A0A:A546:BEAA:0:AD10:811:B0C3:D92D ( talk) 14:41, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
It should probably be taken off 2600:8800:7286:2400:80F0:82CA:3695:2B57 ( talk) 15:50, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I am wondering on two matters. I'm including them into one thread because they kinda connected. So, about the first thing. Should Native American reservations in the US be included? According to Wikipedia "Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is semi-sovereign, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S. state government in which it is located". Which kinda sounds like depending territory not fully within a country. And this list already includes a few fictional dependencies and even micronations. And as such I was wondering if Indian reservations should be included as well.
And about second part of my question. I includ it here because it inspired this whole topic. The episode "Ka Laina Ma Ke One" of the Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series) features fictional entity of the Nation of Hawaii. It is described as sovereign land outside the state jurisdiction. It is a small community with its own government and border guard. The way they talk about it in the episode makes me think that it is treated as if it has the status of Native reservation (though it isn't really said directly in the show). As such, I'm wondering if it deserves to be included on this list or not.
Also, btw, I think in the episode they use the flag for this entity, but kind find any pictures online. If someone could find some pictures/screenshots of it, I would be greatfull, as I'm trying to add svg images of fictional flags to this article.
Well, this text to quite long. If you read all of this, thank you :) Hope to hear other's options. Artemis Andromeda ( talk) 16:15, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I have removed Ambrosia from Billy Liar from the list. The country in the book and subsequent media is just made up in stories/games made by titular child character, and not an actual state existing within the fictional universe of the book. Do you think it should be added back to the list? Artemis Andromeda ( talk) 17:31, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, is this "Kaiserreich" mod considered to be a "published work of fiction"? I think these additions, especially with these possible copyrighted flags, are questionable. -- Enyavar ( talk) 20:20, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi. A few months ago, I have made an effort to catalogue flags (and other symbols) of countries featured on this list, in order to later make their SVG versions to upload here. However, that's a lot of flags, and I don't have free time to work on them unfortunately. Thus, I thought to post the list here, so if anyone is interested in making some flags, they have a handy list of them. Also, feel free to add more picturs to the list if you find symbols of other fictional countries (just please don't remove anything without consulting me first).
Cheers Artemis Andromeda ( talk) 15:07, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi. I have noticed that there are quite a few countries that were made up by YouTubers, that are included on the list. It's mainly done by Geography Now, which is prominent geography channel. But there are also a few entires, which where done by some other YouTubers that I'm not really familiar with, but non of them seem to have even an article on Wikipedia, so I don't think they entires would be notable enough to be on this list. Should we delete some or all of those countries from the list? Artemis Andromeda ( talk) 01:40, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
Guarma is a Caribbean island in Chapter 5 of Red Dead Redemption 2 Doctor who 218 ( talk) 20:17, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi. I am considering if stuff like countries from Hearts of Iron 4 mods should be deleted ammong a few other things. I think there should be set a specific guidelines on which works qualify to be included in the list. In my opinion they should generally be officially published works, so books, films, tv series, video games, etc. Meanwhile, mods for video game can very much be considered unnoficial fan fiction.
And please don't misunderstand me, I do not mean any disrepct to either modder communites or fan fictio writers, as I respect the dedication that both of those require. But, I do belive they should not be counted as official media, and as such, should not be included here. Especially when, it is hard to decide where to draw the line. There are countless mods for HOI4, and who is too say, when will we stop adding countries from more and more obscure modes.
Sincerely, Artemis Andromeda ( talk) 02:53, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Since the definition at the top of this list states: "Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography." shouldn't Atlantis, which supposedly (fictionally) used to exist but was then submerged be deleted? It doesn't fit the definition, even though it might be the first imaginary country (or island or continent) that might pop into people's minds. Does anyone object to its deletion? WordwizardW ( talk) 22:44, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
The inclusion of Nazi Germany and the Confederate States on this list is ridiculous, the United States from Fallout even more so. These are real countries, or at least ones that historically existed. The fact that some writers have made alterations to their histories in their works doesn't make them fictional. If you were to take this to its logical conclusion, you could say Germany is a fictional country because Team Fortress 2 has a fictional German character - it has a new fictional aspect (TF2's Germany has this fictional character), but it's still a real country. Koopinator ( talk) 13:55, 1 June 2024 (UTC
I do not believe there is much in the movie, but it feels weird