This index is for tropes regarding sovereign countries and nation-states, as well as issues of citizenship and nationality.
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!!Tropes:
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'''UsefulNotes:'''
+ '''UsefulNotes/CountriesAndNations''' (main topic)
+ UsefulNotes/NationalSubdivisions
+ UsefulNotes/MajorWorldCities

'''Trope Indexes:'''
+ FictionalCultureAndNationTropes
+ FlagTropes
+ HollywoodAtlas
+ ImmigrationAndDiasporaTropes
+ NationalStereotypes
+ PatrioticTropes
]
* AdaptationalNationality: A particular character's national origin is changed in an adaptation.
* AllNationsAreSuperpowers: Every country in the story's setting is depicted as being quite powerful and influential in global political affairs.
* BannedInChina: Real-life media censorship by country.
* FailedState: A nation whose central government has all but collapsed, leaving it unable to perform basic functions.
* FakeNationality: When a character is played by an actor who doesn't even have the same ethnic/national identity in real life.
* FictionalCountry: A made-up nation-state which was created for storytelling purposes.
* FoundingDay: Often a national holiday which celebrates the anniversary of when a particular country was established as an independent and/or unified state.
* MadeInCountryX: Stereotypes of commercial products which were produced in a particular country or region.
* MistakenNationality: Incorrectly guessing which country someone is from.
** MistakenForForeigner: Wrongly assuming that a fellow (native-born) citizen is actually from another country.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Blindly nationalistic loyalty to one's country, to the point of willfully ignoring any moral problems associated with it.
* NationsAsPeople: {{Anthropomorphic personification}}s of various countries.
* NationsOfTheWorldMontage: A scene which shows people from all over the world doing or reacting to the same events.
* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: When nationalists/separatists desire to remove all (real or perceived) foreign meddling in their homelands.
* TheOldCountry: The ancestral homeland of an immigrant/diaspora community that is living abroad in another country.
* PatrioticFervor: Nationalistic pride for one's country, whether for good or bad.
* PuppetState: A nominally independent country which is actually mostly or completely dependent on the control of a more powerful foreign country.
* QuirkyNeighbourCountry: Another nation sharing borders with your own, which is perceived as being rather eccentric.
* SingleSpeciesNations: Fantasy and sci-fi nations are populated primarily by a single species.
* TheStateless: Someone is not a legal citizen of any real sovereign nation in the world.
* WarComesHome: When a spreading war eventually comes to one's homeland, to the point where nationalistic beliefs transform into militaristic ones.
* WorldTour: The characters travel around the world and visit multiple countries.
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