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exercise greater freedom in creating characters, events, and settings, while at the same time presenting a vaguely familiar locale that readers can recognize. A fictional country leaves the author unburdened by the restraints of a real nation's actual history, politics, and culture, and can thus allow for greater scope in plot construction and be exempt from criticism for vilifying an actual nation, political party, or people. The fictional
Tomania (a
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343:(In 1946 an inscribed pottery shard was found at Tell Qasile (in modern-day Tel Aviv) dating to the eighth century BC. It bears, in Paleo-Hebrew script the text "gold of Ophir to/for Beth-Horon ... 30 shekels". The find confirms that Ophir was a place where gold was imported from, although its location remains unknown.)
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in areas in Africa that, at the time, remained mostly unknown to the West and to the East. Isolated islands with strange creatures and/or customs enjoyed great popularity in these authors' times. By the 19th century, when
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also use fictional countries on Earth as backdrops. Most of these countries exist only for a single story, a TV-series episode or an issue of a comic book. There are notable exceptions where fictional countries appear as recurring plot elements, such as:
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383:List of fictional European countries
373:List of fictional American countries
58:Fictitious countries from the novel
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368:List of fictional African countries
624:. January 20, 1992. Archived from
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452:The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
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378:List of fictional Asian countries
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628:on October 26, 2012.
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151:Edgar Rice Burroughs
61:Nineteen Eighty-Four
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2258:Political narrative
2100:Unreliable narrator
1957:Speculative fiction
1665:Nonlinear narrative
1613:Three-act structure
1473:Deal with the Devil
684:Fictional countries
648:Fictional countries
405:Fictional geography
393:Fictional companies
295:Legendary countries
145:, the protagonist,
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1391:Fictional location
1234:Dramatic structure
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176:and secret agent
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814:Luggnagg
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160:utopian
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