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* ''VideoGame/Diablo2'' has Kehjistan, which is based on South Asia, though interestingly has plenty of {{Mayincatec}} influences, a DarkestAfrica feel, and is the seat of power of a monotheistic, very Christian influenced world religion.
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* ''VideoGame/Diablo2'' ''VideoGame/DiabloII'' has Kehjistan, which is based on South Asia, though interestingly has plenty of {{Mayincatec}} influences, a DarkestAfrica feel, and is the seat of power of a monotheistic, very Christian influenced world religion.
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* The ''[[VideoGame/SOCOMUSNavySeals SOCOM US Navy SEAL]]'' series has the nation of Adjikistan, first featured as an ally of the West before it's revealed that they've been doing nasty things to its own citizens. It's located near Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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* The ''[[VideoGame/SOCOMUSNavySeals SOCOM US Navy SEAL]]'' ''VideoGame/SocomUSNavySeals'' series has the nation of Adjikistan, first featured as an ally of the West before it's revealed that they've been doing nasty things to its own citizens. It's located near Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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* In the Literature/{{Discworld}}, Klatchistan serves as the FantasyCounterpartCulture of Afghanistan.
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* In the Literature/{{Discworld}}, Klatchistan serves as the FantasyCounterpartCulture of Afghanistan. ''Literature/SmallGods'' also mentions Ushistan and Istanzia among the countries conquered by Omnia.
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** '''Gumball''': Send you to a wedding in Somewhere-stan with you as the bride
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' has Uncle Duke's public relations firm hired to improve the image of the brutal lout Trff Bmzklfrpz, President-for-life of Berserkistan. No amount of spin-doctoring can save Trff's case; he ends up deposed and living with Duke.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' has Uncle Duke's public relations firm hired to improve the image of the brutal lout Trff Bmzklfrpz, President-for-life [[PresidentForLife President-for-life]] of Berserkistan. No amount of spin-doctoring can save Trff's case; he ends up deposed and living with Duke.
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* Played for laughs in ''Film/AustinPowers International Man of Mystery''. Dr. Evil steals a nuclear warhead from a breakaway Russian republic called Kreplachistan. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreplach Kreplach]] are a type of dumpling.
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* Played for laughs in ''Film/AustinPowers International Man of Mystery''. Dr. Evil [[EmptyQuiver steals a nuclear warhead warhead]] from a breakaway Russian republic called Kreplachistan. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreplach Kreplach]] are a type of dumpling.
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* Kekistan is a fictional country created by users on Website/FourChan.
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*Kekistan ''WebAnimation/TheStrangerhood'': [[spoiler:Wade]] is eventually revealed to actually be the president of a fictional country created by users on Website/FourChan.called "Durntakistan".
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* On this very Wiki, the PlayingWith.QuoteMine page uses a movie called ''Conflicts in Troperistan'' for its examples.
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* Kekistan is a fictional country created by users on Website/FourChan.
* On this very Wiki, the PlayingWith.QuoteMine page uses a movie called ''Conflicts in Troperistan'' for its examples.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Bolbi Stroganovsky is a ForeignExchangeStudent from Backhairistan.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': [[FunnyForeigner Bolbi Stroganovsky Stroganovsky]] is a ForeignExchangeStudent from Backhairistan.
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* Sikh separatists has called for a Sikh-based state known as "Khalistan". India doesn't tolerate this and calls anyone backing this as a separatist.
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* Sikh separatists has have called for a Sikh-based state in South Asia known as "Khalistan". India The Indian government doesn't tolerate this and calls anyone backing this as a separatist.
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* ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'': One of the hypothetical countries mentioned by Strong Bad in "Licensed Product" is "Gunkistan."
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* There have been multiple proposals to give the UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} a country to call their own. One of the more popular names for a hypothetical Romani homeland is "Romanistan".
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For a seemingly insignificant region, Central Asia has had historical significance, being the homelands of apples and many HordesFromTheEast, yet also a melting pot for UsefulNotes/TheSilkRoad. Why we now associate Central Asia with {{Ruritania}} and {{Qurac}} is because of the Russian and Persian influence there; in particular, most of the RealLife Countrystans were formerly part of [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia the Russian Empire]] and [[UsefulNotes/UnionOfSovietSocialistRepublics Soviet Union]], and Central Asia was primarily inhabited by Iranian peoples before the Turkic peoples arrived from East Asia and became the dominant population of the region, with much of the region being part of many Persian empires and dynasties even afterwards. Thus InterchangeableAsianCultures takes effect and the -stan suffix is also sometimes applied to Middle Eastern and even Eastern European countries in fiction, even though there are few such places in RealLife (UsefulNotes/{{Kurdistan}} being the only Middle Eastern exception, and Kazakhstan and some republics of Russia for Eastern Europe).
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For a seemingly insignificant region, Central Asia has had historical significance, being the homelands of apples apples, domesticated horses, and many HordesFromTheEast, yet also a melting pot for formed by UsefulNotes/TheSilkRoad. Why we now associate Central Asia with {{Ruritania}} and {{Qurac}} is because of the Russian and Persian influence there; in particular, most of the RealLife Countrystans were formerly part of [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia the Russian Empire]] and [[UsefulNotes/UnionOfSovietSocialistRepublics Soviet Union]], and Central Asia was primarily inhabited by Iranian peoples before the Turkic peoples arrived from East Asia and became the dominant population of the region, with much of the region being part of many Persian empires and dynasties even afterwards. Thus InterchangeableAsianCultures takes effect and the -stan suffix is also sometimes applied to Middle Eastern and even Eastern European countries in fiction, even though there are few such places in RealLife (UsefulNotes/{{Kurdistan}} being the only Middle Eastern exception, and Kazakhstan and some republics of Russia for Eastern Europe).
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--> '''Rat:''' What are you doing?\\
'''Pig:''' Digging a hole to Kukistan.\\
'''Rat:''' There's no such country.\\
'''Pig:''' I know...see, when Stephan originally drew this week's strips, he named an actual country, but his editors told him that if he did that, the people from that country would get mad and complain, so he had to alter all of the strips on the computer. On a positive note, the originals should be worth a bundle.
'''Pig:''' Digging a hole to Kukistan.\\
'''Rat:''' There's no such country.\\
'''Pig:''' I know...see, when Stephan originally drew this week's strips, he named an actual country, but his editors told him that if he did that, the people from that country would get mad and complain, so he had to alter all of the strips on the computer. On a positive note, the originals should be worth a bundle.
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For a seemingly insignificant region, Central Asia has had historical significance, being the homelands of apples and many HordesFromTheEast, yet also a melting pot for UsefulNotes/TheSilkRoad. Why we now associate Central Asia with {{Ruritania}} and {{Qurac}} is because of the Russian and Persian influence there; in particular, most of the RealLife Countrystans were formerly part of [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia the Russian Empire]] and [[UsefulNotes/UnionOfSovietSocialistRepublics Soviet Union]], and Central Asia was primarily inhabited by Iranian peoples before the Turkic peoples arrived from East Asia and became the dominant population of the region, with much of the region being part of many Persian empires and dynasties even afterwards and UsefulNotes/{{Tajikistan}} still being majority Iranian and speaking a dialect of Persian as their primary language. Thus InterchangeableAsianCultures takes effect and the -stan suffix is also sometimes applied to Middle Eastern and even Eastern European countries in fiction, even though there are few such places in RealLife (UsefulNotes/{{Kurdistan}} being the only Middle Eastern exception, and Kazakhstan and some republics of Russia for Eastern Europe).
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For a seemingly insignificant region, Central Asia has had historical significance, being the homelands of apples and many HordesFromTheEast, yet also a melting pot for UsefulNotes/TheSilkRoad. Why we now associate Central Asia with {{Ruritania}} and {{Qurac}} is because of the Russian and Persian influence there; in particular, most of the RealLife Countrystans were formerly part of [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia the Russian Empire]] and [[UsefulNotes/UnionOfSovietSocialistRepublics Soviet Union]], and Central Asia was primarily inhabited by Iranian peoples before the Turkic peoples arrived from East Asia and became the dominant population of the region, with much of the region being part of many Persian empires and dynasties even afterwards and UsefulNotes/{{Tajikistan}} still being majority Iranian and speaking a dialect of Persian as their primary language.afterwards. Thus InterchangeableAsianCultures takes effect and the -stan suffix is also sometimes applied to Middle Eastern and even Eastern European countries in fiction, even though there are few such places in RealLife (UsefulNotes/{{Kurdistan}} being the only Middle Eastern exception, and Kazakhstan and some republics of Russia for Eastern Europe).
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For a seemingly insignificant region, Central Asia has had historical significance, being the homelands of apples and many HordesFromTheEast, yet also a melting pot for UsefulNotes/TheSilkRoad. Why we now associate Central Asia with {{Ruritania}} and {{Qurac}} is because of the Russian and Persian influence there; in particular, most of the RealLife Countrystans were formerly part of [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia the Russian Empire]] and [[UsefulNotes/UnionOfSovietSocialistRepublics Soviet Union]], and Central Asia was primarily inhabited by Iranian peoples before the Turkic peoples arrived from East Asia and became the dominant population of the region, with much of the region being part of many Persian empires and dynasties even afterwards.afterwards and UsefulNotes/{{Tajikistan}} still being majority Iranian and speaking a dialect of Persian as their primary language. Thus InterchangeableAsianCultures takes effect and the -stan suffix is also sometimes applied to Middle Eastern and even Eastern European countries in fiction, even though there are few such places in RealLife (UsefulNotes/{{Kurdistan}} being the only Middle Eastern exception, and Kazakhstan and some republics of Russia for Eastern Europe).
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** ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' elaborates on the kingdom's geography, by having the city of Kurast from the 2nd game be located in the southern jungle of the kingdom. The northern desert regions introduced in the 3rd game, especially the new capital city of Caldeum, take significantly larger amount of inspiration from Ottoman Turkey.
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* ''Film/WarInc'' is set in the fictional Turaqistan.
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* ''Film/TheManWhoWouldBeKing'' is set in the fictional Kafiristan.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': During his musical number, Gumball mentioned an unknown country and refered it as "Somewhere-stan".
**'''Gumball''': Send you to a wedding in Somewhere-stan with you as the bride
**'''Gumball''': Send you to a wedding in Somewhere-stan with you as the bride
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* One of the {{Qurac}}-esque countries in ''Film/ErnestInTheArmy'' is Karifistan.
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For a seemingly insignificant region, Central Asia has had historical significance, being the homelands of apples and many HordesFromTheEast, yet also a melting pot for UsefulNotes/TheSilkRoad. Why we now associate Central Asia with {{Ruritania}} and {{Qurac}} is because of the Russian and Persian influence there; in particular, most of the RealLife Countrystans were formerly part of [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia the Russian Empire]] and [[UsefulNotes/UnionOfSovietSocialistRepublics Soviet Union]], and Central Asia was primarily inhabited by Iranian peoples before the Turkic peoples arrived from East Asia and became the dominant population of the region, with much of the region being part of many Persian empires and dynasties even afterwards. Thus InterchangeableAsianCultures takes effect and the -stan suffix is also sometimes applied to Middle Eastern and even Eastern European countries in fiction, even though there are few such places in RealLife (UsefulNotes/{{Kurdistan}} being the only Middle Eastern exception, and Kazakhstan and some republics of Russia for Eastern Europe).
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**In Central Asia itself, locals sometimes perceive the suffix as offensive, and there were several attempts to change it. The Russian Government officially refers to Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan as "Kyrgyzia" and "Turkmenia".
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* There are seven countries with this name in RealLife: Afghanistan, UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Kazakhstan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Kyrgyzstan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Tajikistan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Turkmenistan}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Uzbekistan}}. The latter five are self-explanatory; Afghanistan means "land of the Afghans", Afghan being the historical name for ethnic Pashtuns, who form a plurality of the country's population; while Pakistan is an [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] of "Punjab, Afghania[[note]]Now known as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly the North Western Frontier[[/note]], Kashmir, Sindh, Balochistan", the names of the regions making up the country (it also coincides with the Persian word for "land of the pure"). The Central Asian ex-Soviet countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have on occasion been collectively referred to as "The Stans".
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* There are seven countries with this name in RealLife: Afghanistan, UsefulNotes/{{Afghanistan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Kazakhstan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Kyrgyzstan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Tajikistan}}, UsefulNotes/{{Turkmenistan}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Uzbekistan}}. The latter five are self-explanatory; Afghanistan means "land of the Afghans", Afghan being the historical name for ethnic Pashtuns, who form a plurality of the country's population; while Pakistan is an [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] of "Punjab, Afghania[[note]]Now known as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly the North Western Frontier[[/note]], Kashmir, Sindh, Balochistan", the names of the regions making up the country (it also coincides with the Persian word for "land of the pure"). The Central Asian ex-Soviet countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have on occasion been collectively referred to as "The Stans".
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* In ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', Pig dug a hole to "Kukistan". Unfortunately the natives wanted to eat Pig for dinner. In the first strip of the story arc, characters comment to each other that Kukistan doesn't exist because the editors felt that digging to the actual country mentioned would offend their central Asian readers. As a result, the strip was digitally altered.
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* In ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', Pig dug digs a hole to "Kukistan". Unfortunately "[[FictionalCountry Kukistan]]". Unfortunately, the natives wanted want to eat Pig for dinner. In the first strip of the story arc, characters Pig and Rat comment to each other that Kukistan doesn't exist because the editors felt that digging to the actual country country[[note]][[DiggingToChina China]][[/note]] mentioned would offend their central Asian readers. As a result, the strip was Stephan Pastis digitally altered.altered the strips in that series.
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* Sometimes, Western cities with a large Muslim population will have a derogatory nickname with a "-stan" or "-istan" suffix, such as "Londonistan" (London, UK) and "Dearbornistan" (Dearborn, US), which usually invokes [[{{Eurabia}} xenophobic stereotypes against Muslim immigrants]].
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* Sometimes, Western cities with a large Muslim population will have a derogatory nickname with a "-stan" or "-istan" suffix, such as "Londonistan" (London, UK) and "Dearbornistan" (Dearborn, US), Michigan), which usually invokes [[{{Eurabia}} xenophobic stereotypes against Muslim immigrants]].
* On the Balkans, adding the "-stan" suffix to one's country name (such as a Bulgarian saying "Bulgaristan") has a derogatory undertone, referring to the late years of Ottoman rule which is remembered as backwards, corrupt and cruel. "Absurdistan" above is used in the same context.
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* Turmezistan makes two appearances in the Capaldi era of ''Series/DoctorWho''. The first is in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E7TheZygonInvasionThe Zygon Invasion]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion The Zygon Inversion]]", in which an area within it has been taken over by militant Zygons. It then appears in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E7ThePyramidAtTheEndOfTheWorldThe Pyramid at the End of the World]]", in which it's suddenly become a major geopolitical flashpoint, with American, Russian and Chinese military forces openly confronting each other there.
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* Turmezistan makes two appearances in the Capaldi era of ''Series/DoctorWho''. The first is in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E7TheZygonInvasionThe "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E7TheZygonInvasion The Zygon Invasion]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion The Zygon Inversion]]", in which an area within it has been taken over by militant Zygons. It then appears in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E7ThePyramidAtTheEndOfTheWorldThe "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E7ThePyramidAtTheEndOfTheWorld The Pyramid at the End of the World]]", in which it's suddenly become a major geopolitical flashpoint, with American, Russian and Chinese military forces openly confronting each other there.
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