History Main / FictionalProvince

* ''Series/Severance2022'' takes place in the town of Kier, PE. What "PE" stands for is unknown, but is implied to be owned by the MegaCorp the series takes place in since the surrounding area is a CompanyTown.

* The version of ''WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere'' in ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'' was eventually shown to originate from the city of New Flaversham in the American state of Wintlevania (named for [[MythologyGag Jenny's creator, Steven Wintle]]).

*** Liberty City is the games' stand-in for [[BigApplesauce New York City]]. ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' further reveals that it is located in the fictional state of Liberty.
*** Vice City is the games' stand-in for [[OnlyInMiami Miami]]. While earlier games presented it as being located in Florida, ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoVI'' instead places it in the state of Leonida, a fictionalized version thereof.

** [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} Califurnia]], where much of the series is set, as the Zoo Crew's headquarters are in southern Califurnia. Home of various cities, including "[[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles Los Antelopes]]," "[[UsefulNotes/SanDiego Sandy Eggo]]", and state capital "Stagcramento".

** [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} Califurnia]], where much of the series is set, as the Zoo Crew's headquarters are in southern Califurnia. Home of various cities, including "[[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles Los Antelopes]]," "Sandy Eggo," and state capital "Stagcramento."

*** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' take place in the fictional state of San Andreas, based on California and, to a lesser extent, Nevada, which includes cities such as Los Santos (Los Angeles), San Fierro (San Francisco), and Las Venturas (Las Vegas).

*** Vice City is the games' stand-in for Miami. While earlier games presented it as being located in Florida, ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoVI'' instead places it in the state of Leonida, a fictionalized version thereof.

* This is a staple of [[Creator/TakeTwoInteractive Rockstar Games']] titles:

*** Liberty City (the games' stand-in for New York City) is in the fictional state of Liberty;
*** Vice City, the series' stand-in for Miami (though also located in Florida);
*** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' take place in the fictional state of San Andreas, which is an expy of California, which includes cities such as "Los Santos" (Los Angeles), "San Fierro" (San Francisco), and "Las Venturas" (Las Vegas, Nevada).
*** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' adds North Yankton (which is an expy of North Dakota), which features in a couple of missions, although it can’t be explored freely. It also expands on San Andreas and includes the Alamo Sea (expy of the Salton Sea), the Senora Desert (an expy of the Colorado Desert and the Coachella Valley), and Stab City (an expy of Slab City). Although it excludes San Fierro and Las Venturas, it makes Los Santos a very precisely accurate expy of Los Angeles, unlike in its original appearance.
** ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'' takes place in "Carcer City," an apparent expy of a Rust Belt DyingTown such as Detroit, East St. Louis, Gary, Indiana, or Flint, Michigan.
** ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' has two fictional US states, New Austin, which is based on central and western Texas with some land features and vegetation thrown in from New Mexico (like Rio Bravo), Arizona (like the saguaro cactus in Cholla Springs), Louisiana and eastern Texas (Theives Landing and its surrounding area) the Sierra Nevada Foothills and Sacramento Valley in Northern California (like parts of Hennigan's Stead), and [[CaliforniaDoubling the Mojave Desert In Southern California]] (like Gaptooth Breach) and West Elizabeth, which is based on the Great Plains of Kansas and Nebraska (Great Plains) and the Colorado Rockies (Tall Trees), with Blackwater being a very dead accurate expy of Blackwater, Missouri, as well as a fictional Mexican border state called Nuevo Paraiso, which resembles parts of Chihuahua, Sonora, and Baja California, although Diez Coronas looks like Monument Valley in Utah.
*** ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' expands on West Elizabeth and adds Ambarino, New Hanover, Roanoke Ridge (based on the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, highlands in northwest Arkansas, southern Missouri, eastern Oklahoma, and southeastern Kansas), and Lemoyne (based on Louisiana, with Bayou Nwa being the bayou and Sant Denis being based on New Orleans, but also has elements of southern Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, including Georgia’s red clay soil.).

* ''WebOriginal/GetsuyoubiNoTawawa'''s setting of Tawawa City is located in the fictional prefecture of the same name.

** In American law schools, "Franklin" is often used as a placeholder for a hypothetical state, most commonly in discussions of constitutional law, but also occasionally to imagine a jurisdiction with either very generic or very unusual background law in a more typical subject (e.g. tort law).[[note]]Not to be confused with the historical attempts to create an actual state called Franklin. Both before the state of Tennessee was established and later during the American Civil War (similar to how West Virginia split off from Virginia), there were attempts to create a state of Franklin in parts of what's now the easternmost part of Tennessee.[[/note]] Other Founding Fathers' names can be used, particularly Jefferson and Hamilton, as well as other notable presidents, particularly Lincoln.

* ExpandedStatesOfAmerica, which simply adds new, but not necessarily '''fictional''', states to the existing ones. [[labelnote:Example]]An AlternateHistory where the USA managed to annex the real-life Canadian province of Ontario, and turned them into U.S. states, would be an example of Expanded States of America, but '''not''' be an example of Fictional Province, for instance. An alternate history where Ontario was not only annexed but amalgamated with Upstate New York would be both.[[/labelnote]]

* ExpandedStatesOfAmerica, which simply adds new, but not necessarily '''fictional''', states to the existing ones. [[labelnote:Example]]An AlternateHistory where the USA managed to annex the real-life Canadian provinces of Ontario Quebec, and turned them into U.S. states, would be an example of Expanded States of America, but '''not''' be an example of Fictional Province, for instance. An alternate history where Ontario and Quebec were not only annexed but amalgamated with each other and Upstate New York would be both.[[/labelnote]]

* ExpandedStatesOfAmerica, which simply adds new, but not necessarily '''fictional''', states to the existing ones. [[labelnote:Example]]An AlternateHistory where the USA managed to annex the real-life Canadian province of Quebec, and turned it into a U.S. state, would be an example of Expanded States of America, but '''not''' be an example of Fictional Province, for instance.[[/labelnote]]

* In the American law schools, "Franklin" is often used as a placeholder for a State.[[note]]Both before the state of Tennessee was established and later during the American Civil War (similar to how West Virginia split off from Virginia), there were attempts to create a state of Franklin in parts of what's now the easternmost part of Tennessee.[[/note]] "Blackacre" is a fictional parcel of land as well.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' franchise has Carberator County, a fictional county.

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* ''Film/GreenLantern'': The license plate on Hal's car reads "Coast City," the fictional city where the comics are set. But since US cities don't get their own license plates, this means the movie is actually set in the state of Coast City.

These considerations have still not stopped writers as noteworthy as Creator/SinclairLewis, Creator/JamesMichener, and Creator/ThomasWolfe from creating fictional U.S. states. If the story is interesting enough, and the setting is internally consistent, readers will [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief overlook such details]]. A fictional state is also less likely to jar the reader than a fictional character elected to, say, the [[Literature/TheLastGoodRepublican governorship of a real state]] when the reader can easily look up who the real governor was at the time. It helps that the U.S. has 50 states (and over three thousand counties and county-equivalents), so that readers can easily accept one more; a fictional Australian state might encounter greater resistance.

These considerations have still not stopped writers as noteworthy as Creator/SinclairLewis, Creator/JamesAMichener, and Creator/ThomasWolfe from creating fictional U.S. states. If the story is interesting enough, and the setting is internally consistent, readers will [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief overlook such details]]. A fictional state is also less likely to jar the reader than a fictional character elected to, say, the [[Literature/TheLastGoodRepublican governorship of a real state]] when the reader can easily look up who the real governor was at the time. It helps that the U.S. has 50 states (and over three thousand counties and county-equivalents), so that readers can easily accept one more; a fictional Australian state might encounter greater resistance.

These considerations have still not stopped writers as noteworthy as Creator/SinclairLewis, Creator/JamesMichener, and Creator/ThomasWolfe from creating fictional U.S. states. If the story is interesting enough, and the setting is internally consistent, readers will [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief overlook such details]]. A fictional state is also less likely to jar the reader than a fictional character elected to, say, the [[Literature/TheLastGoodRepublican governorship of a real state]] when the reader can easily look up who the real governor was at the time. It helps that the U.S. has 50 states (and over three thousand counties and county-equivalents), so that readers can easily accept one more; a fictional Australian state might encounter greater resistance.

* ''Film/GreenLantern'': The license plate on Hal's car reads "Coast City," the fictional city where the comics are set. But since US states don't get their own license plates, this means the movie is actually set in the state of Coast City.

* The version of WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere in ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'' was eventually shown to originate from the city of New Flaversham in the American state of Wintlevania (named for [[MythologyGag Jenny's creator, Steven Wintle]]).