Favorite made up country

[Jonte_1979]

Poll question: Favorite made up country

[TheBigGuy]

1. Belgium

...a very "made up" country. You could same the same about nearly all of Africa, too.

[Spirochete]

3. That old standby..

Lower Slobbovia

[mitchum]

2. Freedonia

[SweetZombieJesus]

9. Ditto

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[nuxvomica]

4. Another vote for Freedonia

Not only was it the country in "Duck Soup", it was also the name of the country John Lennon proposed founding. Did you know that "Nux Vomica" was a phony country in a Three Stooges movie? It was near "Hangovia".

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

36. Hail, Hail Freedonia!

Does anybody have the complete lyrics to Groucho's "Rules of my administration?" If I recall them correctly, they sound a lot like Shrub: "If you think the country's in bad shape now, just 'till I get through with it."

[Breezy du Nord]

5. The Land of Chocolate...

mmm... dough nuts!

[leftist_rebel1569]

25. heh

yeah, that one's up there...

Zamunda was the best, though...

[I AM SPARTACUS]

6. UTOPIA...

[SOteric]

7. Elbonia

[Robb]

37. I'll second Elbonia, w/ "Enronabad"

...as a close second.

[JVS]

8. Pottsylvania

LONG LIVE FEARLESS LEADER!

[TheBigGuy]

27. good one!

The ruling party must be the GOP!

[kayell]

10. The Conch Republic

although it may not count as entirely "made up"

[catzies]

13. Conch Republic!

I wish I was there now.

[PurityOfEssence]

11. Vulgaria!

The evil country in Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang (written by Ian Fleming, lest we forget)

I love it in the movie where Gert Frobe is mounting the gangway to the Balloon from the state-owned airline "Vulg-air"

Fredonia's a close second.

Bacteria (the country ruled by the Mussoliniesque "Benzino Naploini" in "The Great Dictator")

[Zero Gravitas]

43. You're a true Vulgarian, aren't you?

[number9]

12. thought you meant music!!!!!

Even sod hut dwellers git the blues
Even though they paid their dues
Ain't no one to sit and choose
which sod hut dweller don't git the blues.

okeydokie.

[BGAL1965]

14. HAIL HAIL FREEDONIA!!!!!

Land of the brave and FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[solinvictus]

15. Another "Rocky & Bullwinkle" reference

Upper Whatchacalistan. It is the country used secretly by the World Economic Council for currency issues and is so secret, NO ONE knows it exists.

[noiretextatique]

16. Escawegia

for kicks, i used to tell some of my college classmates i was from there. fyi, it's near madagascar, fictionally speaking, of course.

[VolcanoJen]

17. Jagermeisterstaat.

It's festive, and funny, because it's German-sounding.

[TheBigGuy]

26. Toumania.

...i think this is from some play.

[Jim Ryalto]

18. Parmistan

or, perhaps, Karabal, on the Caspian Sea.

[Archae]

19. Anvilania

Let's see who can remember where that country was mentioned, and how they won a war. :-)

[lazarus]

21. heh

Animaniacs?

[Archae]

22. You got it.

"I want your anvils!"

*crunch* *smash* :D

[lazarus]

24. all skeptics

Should love Animaniacs. Harlan Ellison once called it the finest show on television. :D

[Ein]

20. Oceania

[LSdemocrat]

23. How can you forget Petoria?

from Family Guy?

[goobergunch]

28. The Republic of Goobergunchia

http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=goobergunchia

...although I do like Grand Fenwick and Freedonia.

[Lefty48197]

29. The 3 stooges Nazi episode where they showed the map

or was that the Marx brothers? Either way, I'm sure one of those countries was the best made up country.

[goobergunch]

30. Stooges (n/t)

[Kolesar]

34. Anakanapanastan

3 Stooges

[Nailzberg]

31. Margaritaville

I was actually in the corner for Zamunda. But, you know, Margaritaville really is a great place. Been there many times.

[roguevalley]

32. Middle Earth

*Especially* if all the men look like that. Drool.

[mac56]

33. The Island Of Misfit Toys.

nm

[Tikki]

35. Ah...to visit once again....

..with Artlaun, the Nardoxian from Piroo, and partake of some of his finest indigenous 'tip'.

...but that was another place, another time...

[MissMillie]

38. Meepos

It was on that 80s sitcom w/ Balki and "cousin Larry"... I forget what it was called.

[Vitruvius]

39. Ruritania

:)

[REP]

40. The Jingoistic States of Buttered Guns

http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=buttered_guns

[mvd]

41. NoBush

Couldn't help pick an anti-Bush one. I am such an outraged citizen! :grr: :grr:

[Uzybone]

42. Nextisistan

I got that from a Ted Rall comic. Had a map of Bush showing countries to be invaded after Irap...Syria, Iran, country over there and Nextisistan.

[commander bunnypants]

44. I gotta go with Chimpanastan

It makes me bust out laughing every time I hear it



DEMMAN

[smallprint]

45. Parador

from "moon over parador", that cheesy fun 80s movie where richard dreyfus plays an actor hired to impersonate the dictator of a banana republic

second vote:
any of the countries on that new yorker cover right after the u.s. invaded afghanistan-- remember that one? that was funny as hell