Fictional Asian countries

Fictional Asian countries

This is a list of fictional countries supposedly located somewhere in the continent of Asia.

Central Asia

*Adjikistan: central Asian nation located near Afghanistan and Pakistan in the video game ""
*Albenistan: Central Asian country in the d20 adventures "Raid on Ashkashem", "the Qalashar Device", and "the Khorforhan Gambit" written by Fraser Ronald and published by Sword's Edge Publishing
*Aldastan: Central Asian country, adjacent to Kazakhstan, in the "" video game
*Basenji: a country neighboring Russia in the sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie"
*Frigyzstan: another fictional union republic in the game Heavy Weapon, usually referring to Kyrgyzstan.
*Khembalung: Buddhist Himalayan country whose population moves to an island, in the "Science in the Capital" series by Kim Stanley Robinson
*Kuristan: from the movie "Mr. Magoo", central Asian nation that is home to the famous jewel "The Star of Kuristan"
*Mandalia: a kingdom in Asia, located "somewhere between India, China and the Soviet Union", from the 1986 German TV series "Kir Royal"

East Asia

*Eastasia: from the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell

outh-West Asia

*Agrabah: Arabian mystical land in the animated movie "Aladdin" and its sequels
*Ajir (or Azhir): a Middle East republic neighboring Karak in the "" TV episode "Nitro"
*Azaran: Middle Eastern country in "The Andromeda Breakthrough" TV series
*Babalstan: Middle Eastern country in the movie "Harum Scarum"
*Bahar: gulf state from an episode of "Spooks". Capital city: Bahar city.
*Beth Ja Brin: Middle-Eastern country appearing in "Danger Man"
*Confederated Gulf States: Persian Gulf Monarchy run by Sheik Rasul in an episode of "Spooks"
*East Yemen: located somewhere in the Middle East, from the sitcom "Yes, Prime Minister". Formerly known as "The People's Democratic Republic of East Yemen", it was a Soviet backed Communist dictatorship which often raided its neighbour, West Yemen.
*Elkabar: Persian Gulf kingdom, from the "" episode "The Slave"
*Fawzia: Middle Eastern kingdom in the movie "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home"
*Golithia: a country between Turkey and the Soviet Union from the graphic novel ""
*Ishtar: a Middle Eastern emirate in the movie "Ishtar"
*Karak: Middle Eastern country, neighboring Ajir in the "" TV episode "Nitro"
*Khemed: Arabic monarchy from the world of comic book hero Tintin
*Lugash: Mideast nation from the "Pink Panther" series of movies
*Muldovia: An Arabian state with vast oilfields featured in an episode of "The Secret Service"
*Ohtar: Middle Eastern country in the 1984 Goldie Hawn film "Protocol"
*Qamadan: an oil-rich Arab kingdom and American ally from the "" TV episode "The Brothers"
*Qumar: Middle Eastern state from the television series "The West Wing"
*Qumran (Kumrahn): Arab country in the BBC comedy series "Yes Minister"
*Qurac: A fictional Persian Gulf country in the DC Comics Universe, often used when DC needs a terrorist state.
*Salamia: a country in the Middle East in the Tamil movie "Vikram"
*Salouf: Arabic oil-rich monarchy in the movie "Where the Spies Are"
*Saradia: Middle Eastern country in the movie "Godzilla vs. Biollante"
*Suroq: Middle Eastern country from the "" TV episode "Terror"
*Trucial Abysmia: Middle Eastern country in the G.I. Joe comics.
*Uqbar: from Jorge Luis Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
*West Yemen: a fictitious and presumably democratic country in the Middle East which bordered East Yemen. From an episode in the sitcom, "Yes, Prime Minister".

outh Asia

*Halla: a kingdom from the movie "Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne"
*Hermajistan: A fictional nation used to replace Afghanistan in the anime version of Full Metal Panic. The change was made after the September 11, 2001 attacks, as the protagonist was originally raised in Afghanistan. A later part of the story involves an operation in Hermajistan.
*Howduyustan: Carl Barks' satirical version of India.
*Munma Holy Republic: Islamic republic, formed out of the southern quarter of Iran and Pakistan, in "Appleseed" manga
*Shundi: a kingdom from the movie "Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne" which was filmed by Satyajit Ray from a novel by Upendrakishore Raychoudhury
*Selgina: a small country located high in the Himalayas in the movie "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster"
*Shangri-La: a mystical, harmonious valley, enclosed in the western end of the Himalaya in James Hilton's novel "Lost Horizon"
*Thulahn: Himalayan country in "The Business" by Iain Banks
*Zekistan: a Middle Eastern country between Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and Tajikistan in the "Full Spectrum Warrior" computer game and ""; its history and setting closely resemble Afghanistan's and Iraq's.

outheast Asia

*Iriadeska: South Eastern Asian country in the short story "Iriadeska's Martians" by Frederik Pohl
*Kandah State: Sultanate in Ann Halam's "Taylor Five"; located on Borneo between Malaysia and Indonesia
*Phaic Tăn: South East Asian country from a parody travel guidebook; from the same authors as Molvanîa and San Sombrèro.
*Ragaan: Southeast Asian country located between Thailand and Malaysia featured in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV series "Embassy"
*Sarkhan: Southeast Asian country from the novel "The Ugly American" by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick and the subsequent movie
*Shadaloo: Southeast Asian state in the 1994 film "Street Fighter", based on the Capcom computer game (in which the same word was used to describe various other things, including a criminal organisation). In the television series "Street Fighter II V", a similar name, Shadowlaw, referred to a master organization controlled by Bison which several lesser syndicates operated under.
*Sunda: in Eric Ambler's State of Siege [http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/blacklizard/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375726774] , is similar to Indonesia but much smaller, confined to a single island. (In reality there is a Sunda Strait and many islands known collectively as the Sunda Islands, but no specific one island with the name.)
*Yatakang: archipelagic Australasian "guided socialist democracy" from John Brunner's novel "Stand on Zanzibar". Apparently roughly in the region of, and analogous to, Indonesia.

Uncertain

*Bratavia: Asian dictatorial country mentioned in an episode of the 1987 German TV comedy "Diplomaten küßt man nicht"
*Jumbostan and Unsteadystan: from the world of Donald Duck.


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