Namedworld and Namedland

What is this, an amusement park?^note Actually... Yes

A very, very popular naming scheme for many, many things. Simply take an attribute and append "-land" or "-world" to it. It's the easiest way to come up with the name of a country (sometimes to the point of parody). Amusement Parks in particular are almost always guaranteed to use this name scheme, if only to riff on Disneyland and Walt Disney World. (In fact, the trope for parodies of those parks is named "Souvenir Land".)

Similar to Premiseville. Compare Countrystan, where -stan is the Persian equivalent of -land. The Egopolis has a good chance of employing this, especially if the ruler is a Card-Carrying Villain.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Berserk has a kingdom known as Midland, which was engaged in a hundred year long war with Tudor.
• In-Universe Example: In Fairy Tail the "normal" world is called Earthland.
• Fist of the North Star has Godland, a country founded by fundamentalist ex-US military.

Comic Books

• Kree Homeworld, Skrull World and Mojo World.
• DC Comics has Warworld, an artificial planet that can feasibly annihilate life on a global scale if left unchecked. Naturally, it's usually under the command of Mongul.
• As with the Video Game, the Swordquest tie-in comics have Earthworld, Fireworld, Waterworld, and Airworld.

Film

• Waterworld
• Westworld, and its sequel Futureworld.
• Cool World
• Godmothered: The Magical Land where every Fairy Godmother lives is called the "Motherland."
• In Don Bluth's A Troll in Central Park, Stanley Troll's homeland is called Trollworld. At one point, there is mention of two other places called Goblinville and Gremlinland.
• The Nightmare Before Christmas: Though called "Halloween Town " and "Christmas Town " within dialogue, the holiday worlds followed this convention in the poem and even at the end of the Town Meeting song: "At least they're excited/But they don't understand/That special kind of feeling in/Christmas Land."

Literature

• Everworld, though it's an odd example, since it doesn't really tell you anything about what the place is like.
• Discworld
• Flatland
• The part of the continent where all the action takes place in The Wheel of Time is called the Westlands, or the Wetlands by the people of a neighboring desert.
• Harry Harrison's To the Stars trilogy, which consists of Homeworld, Wheelworld, and Starworld.
• Also his Deathworld series.
• Mogworld
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Larry Niven seems to like to use place names as a humor element in his Known Space stories. Apparently people in his stories tend to name places after whatever first came to mind on seeing them. In addition to the Ringworld, the stories also feature planets named "Canyon", "Plateau", and "We Made It". Plateau's highest mountain is called "Mount Lookitthat".
• Neverland in Peter Pan is the land where children never grow up.
• Good Omens mentions the small African nation of Kumbolaland, which at one point in its history was Sir-Humphrey-Clarkson-Land, until Sir Humphrey broke every bone in his body rolling out of bed.
• A Song of Ice and Fire: Some of the 7 kingdoms have names ending with -lands, such as the Westerlands, the Riverlands, the Stormlands, and the Crownlands.

Live Action TV

• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: The Southlands was the former name of Mordor before being inhabited by Orcs. The name is also canon only to the show.
• Blake's 7. In "City At The Edge Of The World", Vila discovers a new world suitable for colonization, and there's a joking debate over whether to call it Homeworld or Vilaworld.
• Red Dwarf: In one episode, Rimmer crashes on to a lifeless planet, which he proceeds to terraform. Afterwards, he decides to refer to the planet as "Rimmerworld". Given that he has to populate it with his own clones, it's actually appropriate.

Mythology

• Norse Mythology does this with the nine worlds as most of them end with the word "Heim" (translates as world, land, and sometimes home).

Tabletop Games

• Paranoia adventure Send in the Clones. The adventure is split up into 3 segments titled "Sewerworld", "Bureaucracyworld" and "Entertainmentworld". They take place in the Absurdly Spacious Sewers, contorted Alpha Complex bureaucracy and the HPD & Mind Control section of NBD sector, respectively.
• The Greyhawk setting of Dungeons & Dragons has the island continent of Hepmonaland, and the nations of Keoland and Perrenland.

Video Games

• In Viewtiful Joe, the world of the silver screen is known as Movie Land. In the sequel, the Black Emperor and his syndicate Gedow try to take over not only Movie Land, but Movie World, the collective realm of cinematography itself.
• MadWorld
• Oddworld
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • Super Mario Bros. 3: Each world in the original game (The remakes subverted this rule, however); Grass Land, Desert Land, Water Land, Giant Land, Sky Land, Ice Land, Pipe Land, Dark Land.
  • Super Mario Land: Sarasaland, a kingdom ruled by Princess Daisy. It does have four individual kingdoms within, however.
  • Super Mario World: Dinosaur Land. Which has a bit of a Prehistoria setting going on and is home to the Yoshis.
  • Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins: Mario Land, a small island that served as Mario's private property until Wario took over.
  • Mario Party 2: Per the game's story, the reward for the winner of the game is to rename the land after themselves, so it could be Mario Land, Luigi Land, etc. Every single board has this sort of theme name as well: Space Land, Horror Land, Pirate Land, Western Land, Mystery Land and the invading Bowser Land.
  • Sherbet Land, which is also Edible Theme Naming and potentially Level Ate, with the Sherbet bit referring to the icy feel of the area. It's in Wario Land, Mario Kart and Mario Hoops 3 on 3, with a similar area called Sherbet Island popping up in Diddy Kong Racing.
• The four games of the Swordquest series have an elemental theme name — Earthworld, Fireworld, Waterworld, and Airworld. Unfortunately, the last of the four games was never released because the series was cancelled.
• Overwatch features a map called Blizzard World, a theme park based on developer Blizzard's various titles.
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Upon landing on the surface world for the first time with Link, Groose decides that it needs a name. Even the background music isn't impressed with his suggestion:
  Groose: This place needs a name. Yeah... a name fitting for this rugged, adventurous wilderness. From now on, we'll call it... Grooseland!

Visual Novels

• Within the Ace Attorney series, there exists a theme park called Gatewater Land.

Web Comics

• Erfworld
• In Drowtales, "Chel'el'Sussoloth" literally translates to "city of light within darkness". It's located within a cave roughly the size of the island of Manhattan. There's also a region known as the Skyworld on the surface.

Western Animation

• Great Waterland, Dryland, Broad Reedland, and Twoland/Land of Two in Alfred J. Kwak.
• Pac-Land from Pac-Man.
• In The Fairly OddParents!, in addition to "Fairy World", there's also a Dairy World, Hairy World, and Scary World, all of which are pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• In The Powerpuff Girls, "The City of Townsville" is an example of both this trope and Department of Redundancy Department, as the suffix "ville" also means "city".
• The native homeland of the eponymous character of Mr. Bogus is called Bogusland.
• The PBS animated series WordWorld, where everything's made out of words. Literally.
• Every single location in the Super Mario Bros. television series has a name in this format. You have the James Bond themed Spy Land, the Mad Max themed Car Land, the fairly obvious Pirate World and the twist on the formula with its naming El Desert Land and a Mexican theme.
• My Little Pony:
  • Ponyland in the original "G1" version.^note Which includes the original TV specials, the movie, the TV series, and also the later "G1.5" TV series.
  • Ponyville in both the G3 and "G3.5" versions.
  • Most episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic take place in a completely different version of Ponyville. Every other city also has a punny horse name, but none as blatant.^note Except when they are. Indeed, this version of "Ponyville" was originally going to be called "Fillydelphia".
• Rainbowland in Rainbow Brite.
• Strawberryland in the first two versions of Strawberry Shortcake. The third version subverts it a little. The name Strawberryland isn't used, instead taking place in "Berry Bitty City"^note Although it could be said that it's in Strawberryland..

Real Life

• Earth, whose name is the Old English word for “land.”
• Walt Disney World and Disneyland, Legoland, Canada’s Wonderland, and many other Theme Parks. Also, Disneyland (Disneyland Resort) and the Magic Kingdom (Walt Disney World Resort) have Fantasyland, Frontierland, Adventureland, and Tomorrowland. Tokyo Disneyland changes Frontierland to "Westernland" (because "frontier" doesn't have a good equivalent word in the Japanese language) and Disneyland Park in Disneyland Paris changes Tomorrowland to "Discoveryland" (because this version of Tomorrowland took inspiration from European thinkers and creators such as Jules Verne).
• Finland, Poland, Thailand and a handful of other countries—including England. The various -istan countries as well; the suffix comes from the Persian word for "land."
• The United States Of America has many cities with names that end in “land.”
  • California: Woodland, Oakland
  • Oregon: Portland, Ashland, Oakland
  • Washington: Woodland
  • New Jersey: Vineland
  • Texas: The Woodlands, Sugar Land, Pearland, Midland
• The German word for "Germany" is Deutschland.
• An archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland and across the Strait of Magellan is called Tierra Del Fuego, which is Spanish for “land of fire.”
• The Guadeloupe archipelago (French oversea territory located in the Caribbean) is made of six islands, the largest being named "Basse-Terre" ("Lowland") and "Grande-Terre" ("Greatland" or "Bigland"). The region's capital city is called Basse-Terre too.
• The greater Chicago metropolitan area is referred to as "Chicagoland"

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