List of fictional countries set on Earth

This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.), with links to separate articles for further information about the individual entries. The fictional countries in the following list are described as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.

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Name Flag Work Notes Absurdistan Politische Studien (1971)Monatshefte der Hochschule für politische Wissenschaften, München, veröffentlicht vom Isar-Verlag. (1971) An imaginary land in which absurdity is the norm, especially in its public authorities and government. Atlantis Timaeus, and Critias (360 BC) Fictional island mentioned within an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias.Character, Plot and Thought in Plato's Timaeus-Critias. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 42. . It represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state.Hackforth, R. (1944). "The Story of Atlantis: Its Purpose and Its Moral". Classical Review. 58 (1): 7–9. doi:10.1017/s0009840x00089356 Atlantis falling out of favor with the deities and submerging into the Atlantic Ocean. In many other works Atlantis has become an advanced prehistoric civilization in contemporary fiction, from comic books to films.Clay, Diskin (2000). "The Invention of Atlantis: The Anatomy of a Fiction". In Cleary, John J.; Gurtler, Gary M. (eds.). Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. 15. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 1–21. . Babar's Kingdom Babar the Elephant series, first appearance in Histoire de Babar (1931) Country, supposedly in Northern Africa, inhabited by intelligent elephants that are usually bipedal and civilized. Balnibarbi Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) Balnibarbi is a fictional kingdom visited by Lemuel Gulliver after he was rescued by the people of the flying island of Laputa.