What is your favourite imaginary country in comics?

Finland!

Wot no Bialya?

Borduria as depicted in The Calculus Affair is a hilarious and spot-on parody of a Stalinist state, so that.

Palnu!

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Always had a place in my heart

I for one would love to live in an idealised pre-industrial Eastern European nation ruled over by a nutter in a high-tech suit of armour and a green cloak.

The shops bulge with luxuries, comrade.

DC has Qatar and Santa Prisca as well - prob. more. DC def. has a lot of fictional cities.

Qatar is imaginary?

oops, Qurac

or Qarac? Something like that.

Santa Prisca!
From that Batman Annual where he busts Two-Face out of Arkham! Batman guesses that whoever it is he's looking for is a cop in Santa Prisca because the way the guy's hair is flattened out suggested the cheap hats Santa Prisca cops wear.

Kahndaq, where your fearless Shazam-powered leader rips criminals in half at press conferences.

I'm an X-Men guy so it's definitely Genosha.

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I was all about Wakanda, and then I noticed Madripoor and was, like, "Ooooooh..."

no Savage Land though? really?

The poll was based on the Wikipedia list of imaginary countries, so anything missing from that list is missing here too. You could argue that Savage Land is no technically a country though. Other imaginary locations that are not countries (like Atlantis or Mu) are missing from the list too.

"no" = "not"

I'm a huge x-guy, but I went Latveria over Genosha. Why? Cause Genosha got blowed up by Morrison.

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wow, Victor Von Doom: Most Popular Dictator EVER!

isn't Corto Maltese a country?

Corto Maltese is the protagonist of the Hugo Pratt comic of the same name, not a country.

Frank Miller made Corto Maltese the name of a country in Dark Knight Returns.

Oh, I don't remember that bit. I guess it was a tribute to Pratt.

It's where the bombs fell.

does wakanda have any distinguishing characteristics beyond generic africa stand-in?

genosha is kind of confusing to me. without looking at wikipedia, i think it was a fascist island run on mutant slave labor, which later got taken over by magneto and became a mutant nation? and then got blown up?

does wakanda have any distinguishing characteristics beyond generic africa stand-in?

It is one of the most technologically-advanced countries on the planet along with Latveria.

Isn't Wakanda an anomolously wealthy country due to their rich natural resources (Vibranium) and their leade's ridiculous economic protectionism?

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the wakanda wiki is very illuminating.

Yeah, it's a really fascinating country that often gets glossed over because all people generally see is "oh black people in Africa, got it"

selections from "enemies of the Black Panther"

The Soul Strangler - An evil supernatural creature that referred to itself as the master of the Ku Klux Klan.

Dragon Circle - A multicultural hate organization.

Achebe (later known as Reverend Achebe) - A poor farmer somewhere in South Africa, Achebe sold his soul to the demon Mephisto. He is portrayed as a grinning, unpredictable, lunatic, warrior-mystic, regularly talking to his mannequin Daki without delusions that it's truly alive, and engineering complex plots of social unrest for profit or entertainment.

# White Avenger - Leader of the Azanian Supremacists, blindly patriotic national symbol. His powers included superhuman strength and durability, flight, enhanced vision, infravision, and hyper-awareness.[2]

hyper-self-awareness, i hope

Achebe (later known as Reverend Nchabisco)

Achebe (later known as Reverend Achebe)

Continuing the fine Marvel tradition of doing minimal research for those pesky foreign names (see Peter Rasputin, etc)

I wonder if Chinhua Achebe ever repped for DC