Shouldn't Expy be specifically for characters, not places or things?

I thought Expy meant:

This character was deliberately crafted to be very similar to another character in a different work.

However, I've seen one entry (cannot remember which work page) mentioning "an Expy of the Netherlands in a fantasy football tournament" - shouldn't that be Fantasy Counterpart Culture?

I've also seen Expy used like this in a few other entries, I'm still wick-checking.

I believe there is a cleanup thread for this sort of thing, but in general, shouldn't Expy be limited to characters, not for usage relating to places or items?

Expy is limited to characters, anything else is misuse.

Here's the cleanup thread.

I've seen this particular misuse around, too. E.g. Brooklyn 99 has a video game Kwazy cupcakes and I've seen it listed on a recap page as Expy to Candy Crush Saga... (I do think we have other trope for this knock-off version of things, perhaps Bland-Name Product?) or recently I've deleted from Jane Eyre that Jane travelled to an Expy of Leeds.

There could be a proper trope for "a place that looks like another place". California Doubling is a subtrope of that.

There could also be a proper trope for "an item that looks like another item in another work", too. (It's probably not Bland-Name Product because it doesn't always have a "brand".)

We have No Communities Were Harmed for places, and Bland-Name Product would probably cover item examples. And don’t forget No Celebrities Were Harmed for celebrities.

No, I'm talking about when a place/item is similar to another fictional place/item.

We don't seem to have a trope for that yet.