Talk:List of fictional countries
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"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 inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet (see below)."' Why this limitation? Fictional country article states that "A fictional country is a country that is made up, and does not exist in real life. Fictional lands appear most commonly as settings or subjects of literature or of movies. Fictional countries appear commonly in stories of early science fiction (or scientific romance).Such countries supposedly form part of the normal Earth landscape although not located in a normal atlas. Later similar tales often took place on fictional planets." I therefore think this limitation should be scrapped. Instead we would benefit from a description whether this is a country on Earth 'just like ours plus this country', an alternative history Earth, anther planet (science fiction), or a fantasy world. What do you think?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 12:34, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
- I agree with this. --Sparky Lurkdragon 15:45, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
- The list would probably be too long otherwise. Is there another list for fictional countries on other worlds? -- Astrokey44|talk 14:20, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- The list of fictional countries is limited to those on Earth because there are indeed a lot of fictional places outside our planet. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish which of these far off places are "countries" by Earth definition. More offten than not they are called "worlds", "realms" or "lands" and rarely countries. So limitting the list to countries on Earth seems reasonable. Tavilis 16:40, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- This list is getting too large, and there is a world of difference (pardon the pun) between countries known to be our world and 'lands' in fantasy, sci-fi and the such. Kransky 11:32, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Agreed, there needs to be a separate list for counties on our plant (earth) and one for the rest. Kanga-Kucha
[edit] Bulungi
If a fictional person makes up a fictious country, then is the country really fictious? Kransky 11:32, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't think so, I think to be a fictional country on this list, you have to have your counrty published in the mass media. User:Kanga-Kucha 2:25, 25 January 2007
