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This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
Nemesis – Hypothetical star orbiting the Sun, supposedly responsible for extinction events. Planet Nine – Hypothetical Solar System planet. Theia – Planet hypothesized to have impacted Earth and created the Moon. Tyche – Hypothetical gas giant in the Oort cloud. Planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology, ufology and pseudoscience.
OpenGeofiction (abbreviated OGF) is an online collaborative mapping project focused on fantasy cartography and worldbuilding of a world analogous to Earth. It uses OpenStreetMap software and processes in a separate environment, providing an outlet for artistic expression that avoids interfering with OpenStreetMap's mapping of the real world and potentially mitigates the risk of vandalism there.
Siwenna. Skaith. Skaro. Snaiad. Fictional planets of the Solar System. Solaria (fictional planet) Solaris (novel) Spira (Final Fantasy) Synnax.
Extrasolar planets in fiction. Artist's impression of a planet in a far-off system. Planets outside of the Solar System have appeared in fiction since at least the 1850s, long before the first real ones were discovered in the 1990s. Most of these fictional planets do not differ significantly from the Earth, and serve only as settings for the ...
Since role-playing games originally developed from wargames, there are many historical and alternate-history RPGs based on Earth. The settings for such games are excluded from this list, unless they include significant fictional elements. Many RPG campaign settings are based on fictional universes from books, comics, video games, or films.
Core Worlds – powerful and wealthy planets with millennia-long histories, many of them founding members of the Galactic Republic. On-screen examples include Coruscant, Corellia, Alderaan, and Hosnian Prime. The Colonies – the first colonies founded by the nascent Galactic Republic in ancient times.
Subterranean fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction, science fiction, or fantasy which focuses on fictional underground settings, sometimes at the center of the Earth or otherwise deep below the surface. The genre is based on, and has in turn influenced, the Hollow Earth theory. The earliest works in the genre were Enlightenment -era ...