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Bulungi
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A Bulungi is a fictional little country nestled somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa. If used as a setting, almost always a thick jungle or parched Savannah, even though the southern region is more temperate. Bulungis are often populated by a mix of white and black residents, the former of whom usually speak with vaguely British and/or Afrikaner accents, and the latter will probably speak Pidgin Englishnote A creole dialect of English mixed with local African languages, which was written for the first time in 2017 when The BBC launched a Nigerian Pidgin version of their site, though fictional examples will usually just amount to broken English with African-like words in between. The country's name is usually composed of simple syllables that are stereotypically "African"-sounding. In many cases, the Bulungi is in the midst of the transition process from a People's Republic of Tyranny or military dictatorship to a more democratic type of rule, though this might not be going well for them. If there is a dictator, expect him to have Majored in Western Hypocrisy. In particularly incorrect works, the entirety of Africa may be generalized as a Bulungi. Compare and contrast with Ruritania, Qurac, Wutai, Countrystan, Banana Republic, Tropical Island Adventure and Darkest Africa. Afrofuturist works like to explore and subvert this trope. |
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One episode of Man in a Suitcase sees McGill kidnapped by the former British governor of Ecuala, who is convinced (probably correctly) that McGill, in his CIA days, supported the independence movement that ousted him. | |
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Mazuri from Sonic Unleashed, the country where the Savannah Citadel stages take place. It has a real-world basis, however: The urban areas Sonic visits are based on the city of Djenné. | |
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X-Men: Storm's uncle was the dictator of such a country. | |
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Beninia from Stand on Zanzibar. There's also Dahomalia and RUNG, but these are mergers of existing IRL countries. | |
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Jagged Alliance 3: is set in Grand Chien, a French-speaking nation in west Africa, that is small, dependent on diamond exports and currently trapped in a multi-way civil war. | |
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Borgen had a couple of episodes dealing with the Danish government arranging a peace deal between the warring northern and southern regions of an East African country called Kharun, which was definitely not Sudan. | |
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Nibia from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. | |
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Justice League of America: Christopher Priest's run has the league crashing in this kind of country, running afoul of a an evil Black Panther counterpart in the process. | |
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The Simpsons: The episode "Simpsons Safari" is set in Tanzania, and the production team did take effort to portray the country realistically, but did slip in some Bulungi-esque tropes, like the country changing regimes and official title frequently, and including customs like ear, lip and neck stretching that aren't Eastern African customs at the Masai village. | |
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Andrew Norman Wilson's novel My Name Is Legion has Zinariya. It's ruled by a dictator, General Bindiga, and has globally important copper mines. | |
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Bangalla, homeland of The Phantom, somewhere on the east coast of Africa. It was an English colony when the series started in the 1930s, and transitioned to self-rule in the 1960s. Bangalla handled the transition to the post-Colonial age better than most, and the capital of Mawitaan (formerly Morristown) is a modern city, but there are still deep jungles and parched savannas a-plenty. In the first stories, Bangalla was in the Indian subcontinent (its name may remind some of Bangladesh). | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Monster", it is mentioned that the African warlord General Lawrence Gecongo is attempting to seize power from the legitimately elected President of Uwanda. | |
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G.I. Joe: A country called Equatorial Kalingaland featured heavily in one issue of G.I. Joe Special Missions. The location was not narrowed down any more than that, but if it really is equatorial, it has to be either in Africa, South America or on an island. The predominance of black population, the existence of a royal family, and the lack of sea nearby suggest Africa. | |
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Black Panther: Averted. Wakanda isn't such a country, but is instead a Hidden Elf Village that does everything in its power to prevent being controlled by outside forces or forsake their native culture (made easier by the fact that they are the world's only natural source of Type I vibranium, which gives them enough political clout (and technological prowess) to keep themselves relatively free of unwelcome outside influence). Wakanda is surrounded by Bulungis, though (like Azania and Niganda), so that Black Panther stories about regional politics can avoid mentioning real nations. | |
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Spooks: Series five, episode four featured West Monrassa, led by president Gabriel Sakoa, who was about to order a genocide on an ethnicity in the north of the country. However, another African president at the conference, Manu Baffrong of Gaudec, tells the team most developing African nations and their leaders are not like that. Furthermore, the problem is also the result of the United States blithely selling Sekoa weapons for The War on Terror and the British government being more concerned about the PR victory of getting their treaty signed than the wellbeing of Africa. | |
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In Cyborg 009, Pyunma, also known as 008, comes from the Republic of Muanba. There is a short story arc where the cyborg team travels there in the midst of a revolution. Muanba's economy is in ruins due to this conflict, as it had soon grown into an arms race manipulated by Black Ghost, a weapons company that sells each side ever more effective weapons. | |
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24: Redemption, the Made-for-TV Movie, takes place in Sangala, a destabilized African nation whose duly-elected Prime Minister has been deposed by a military coup. The following season, Season 7, sees the Sangalan dictatorship perpetrate terrorism in an attempt to dissuade American President Allison Taylor from a military intervention on behalf of aforementioned Prime Minister. | |
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In the James Bond novel Solo, Bond is sent into the fictional African country of Zamzarin, which is being ravaged by a civil war against the province of Dahum (which sounds just a few letters away from Darfur). His job is to assassinate the leader of the opposing side that the country can return to its oil-dealings. | |
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De Kiekeboes: The African state "Boeloe Boeloe" (pronounced like "Bulu Bulu"), ruled by an Idi Amin parody, is featured in a few albums. | |
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Metal Gear: Galzburg in Metal Gear, "retconned" in Metal Gear: Ghost Babel into Gindra. Unlike most of these examples, Gindra has an exhaustively well-detailed description including things like rainfall, ethnic makeup, and a certain amount of fairly realistic history as a former French colony, which can be accessed through calling one of your support contacts. The Moloni Republic in Metal Gear Ac!d. N'Mani's unnamed country in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Our only hint is that the signs on the buildings are in English, which leaves about 20 contenders, half that if we cut out those not bordering a large body of water like the one a Metal Gear RAY jumps out of. |
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Ishmaelia from Scoop. | |
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In an episode of My Name Is Earl, Earl is betting on a political election between a regular guy and a cannibal in Africa that he's following on the news. The cannibal guy wins. | |
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Kijuju from Resident Evil 5, which is in West Africa and uses the Nigerian Naira as its currency, but is inhabited by people who speak the East African language Swahili. | |
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Nick Velvet: Nick gets involved in the politics of the newly independent African republic of Gola in "The Theft of the Seven Ravens" when he his hired to steal the republic's gift to their former colonial master Great Britain. | |
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An episode of Think the Unthinkable featured the team at Unthinkable Solutions scheduled to meet with the Minister of Finance for the fictional African state of Nambitrea. | |
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The Kingdom of Mazunda in Criminal Case: World Edition, where Case 41 takes place and continues being referenced in subsequent seasons via inhabitants or products from there appearing. | |
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The Mutants & Masterminds Freedom City setting has Dakana, which the source material says is located "deep in sub-Saharan Africa, at the crossroads of Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and the Congo". Different versions of this nation show up in the alternate universes of related to the setting. By default, it is a unique take on the trope as the leader is a super who actually cares about his people, and the nations itself is stated to be wealthy and technologically advanced thanks to the Daka crystals that they have a monopoly on. (This is a blatant Captain Ersatz of Wakanda in the Marvel universe, as described in the comics section of the page.) | |
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Wakanda of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a subversion of this trope. Captain America: Civil War (which formally introduces Black Panther, Wakanda's national superhero) depicts it as an isolationist sub-Saharan country of pastoral tribelands, with no white residents at all. Then Black Panther reveals Wakanda is really radically different: they pose as pastoral tribeland to avoid attracting attention, but beneath the holograms is a case study in Afrofuturism. | |
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Southeastern Kenya in Halo is an industrialized and economically advanced version (thanks in large part to having a Space Elevator); specifically, it's part of the "East African Protectorate". | |
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The Interpreter has Matobo, a southern African country liberated by a Dr. Zuwanie who now is a corrupt dictator that kills his opponents. Matobo is similar to Zimbabwe (previously Rhodesia), making Dr. Zuwanie a fictional counterpart to Robert Mugabe (ironically, the film was cleared by censors for release in that country, though government officials denounced it). The protagonist of the movie, Silvia, is a white citizen of that country. The country seems to be somewhere near South Africa, because when the FBI is looking for Silvia they check all flights to Johannesburg. The screenwriters of the movie seemed to have gone to great lengths to make Matobo relatively realistic - notably, they hired a professional linguist to create Matobo's fictional official language, Ku (derived from various existing southern Bantu languages and dialects). | |
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The A-Team had three: Zulabwe from "Diamonds 'n' Dust", and Northern and Southern Triana from "There Goes the Neighborhood". | |
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The setting of Far Cry 2 is unnamed, but its two named regions (Leboa-Seko and Bowa-Seko) are like this, though they includes multiple environments one might expect in Africa (jungle, desert, savannah) in a very small space. The country's corrupt monarchy was ousted from power and now two factions, the APR and the UFLL, are locked in a civil war. | |
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Buranda from Yes, Minister, referred to on the show as a TPLAC—"Tinpot Little African Country", a parody of development geography terminology. Prior to its independence it was "British Equatorial Africa". It appears to have replaced real-life Equatorial Guinea on the map. | |
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Champions supplements have occasionally mentioned the fictional African nations of "Lugendu" and "Lurranga"; the former has a president who's secretly a supervillain, while the latter is a generic sort of African dictatorship with an active but low-level revolutionary movement. | |
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Tigora in Sheena. | |
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The Odd Couple mentions "Baggi", which has existed since Thursday. | |
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Hitman: In one arc, Tommy Monaghan and his friends try to escape a bad situation in Gotham City by hiring themselves as mercenaries to the government of an African country called Tynanda. However, when they realize that the president is a murderous dictator backed by an Evil Colonialist as The Man Behind the Man, they change sides and join the rebels. | |
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The 1981 French movie Le Professionnel, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, has his character going on a secret mission to Malagawi in order to assassinate its Idi Amin-esque President for Life. It definitely earns a distinction for laziness in invoking the trope by the way its filmmakers merely took the existing country of Malawi and added a "-ga-" in the middle. | |
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Good Omens has Kumbokoland, an African country that was briefly Sir-Humphrey-Clarksonland, and which has been at peace for three thousand years. That is until War pays a visit. | |
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Coming to America has Zamunda, a general riff on Real Life Zambia, with elements of Swaziland and Lesotho thrown in (i.e. it's a rare example of a modern African monarchy). Unlike most other Bulungis depicted, Zamunda is shown as being quite prosperous, with its ruling family living in luxury. | |
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In The West Wing, there was Equatorial Kundu, an African nation wracked by genocide. Besides that, there was also mention of a Sahelise Republic. | |
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The Rambo: The Force of Freedom episode "Rambo and the White Rhino'' has Big Bad General Warhawk fomenting war between two fictional African nations, Namboola and Ombasi. | |
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Private Eye, in its satirical material, tends to use the fictitious African country "Rumbabwe, formerly known as British Rumbabaland", a pun on Zimbabwe and the British dessert "rum baba". | |
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The first Operation Flashpoint has a mod named Tonal Island, which is focused on a civil war in a fictional African country set in a group of islands lying near the eastern coast of Africa. | |
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Wadata from the Leverage episode "The Scheherazade Job". Also, part of the Tie-In Novel The Zoo Job is set in the West African nation of Malani. | |
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In Rumpole of the Bailey, the titular English barrister is contacted by one of his former pupils, now a politician in the West African country Narenga, formerly the British colony New Somerset. The pupil is charged with murder and wants his old pupil-master, a leading criminal defense barrister, to represent him. Rumpole has to deal not only with the fraught politics of the case (as the trial could spark a civil war between the country's two main ethnic groups), but also the frustrating absence of a jury (and, therefore, a heavily biased judge). | |
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In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Lois Lane goes to Nairomi to interview a war chief / terrorist chief. The name is most probably inspired by Nairobi, the capital and largest city of Kenya. | |
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Inazuma Eleven 3 revolves around an international soccer tournament. The Final Boss is the national team of Cotarl (Côte-Victoire in the English dub), a tiny African republic. They were trained from a bunch of nobody kids to the strongest soccer team in the world by Endou Daisuke, the main character's long-thought-dead grandfather. | |
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Galzburg in Metal Gear, "retconned" in Metal Gear: Ghost Babel into Gindra. Unlike most of these examples, Gindra has an exhaustively well-detailed description including things like rainfall, ethnic makeup, and a certain amount of fairly realistic history as a former French colony, which can be accessed through calling one of your support contacts. | |
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The Moloni Republic in Metal Gear Ac!d. | |
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Birani at the beginning of The Gods Must Be Crazy, where their Cabinet gets shot up by Sam Boga's men. It is supposedly located near Namibia and Angola and has a banana grove at a place called Dumgase. | |
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Zembala in The Wild Geese. | |
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The Squee-Jee Islands, off the coast of equatorial Africa, in The Katzenjammer Kids. Although the King was rather authoritative, and insisted on wearing a traditional grass skirt, it was portrayed as a semi-modern society in the 30's through 50's. | |
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Malê Rising is a story on AlternateHistory.com whose Point of Divergence involves the 1835 Malê revolt of Muslim slaves in Brazil being slightly more successful, leading to the freed and exiled slaves founding a nation in our world's Nigeria rooted in liberal Enlightenment values informed by the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. The ideology they develop spreads first across West Africa and then into the broader Muslim world, leading the European empires to take a lighter hand during the Scramble for Africa when they encounter stronger, better-developed states that can't be crushed so easily, and West Africa being a front in the Great War leads the region to industrialize on both sides. By 2015, there are parts of Africa, such as Nigeria, Senegal, Algeria, South Africa, and the Copperbelt, where the living standards are close to European standards, and even many poorer countries like Ethiopia, Angola, and Egypt resemble Eastern Europe more than anything. That said, some parts of Africa still conform to the stereotype; the United Congolese Republic gets run into the ground by a tinpot dictator, East Africa is devastated by a brutal civil war in the 1940s, and Natal becomes a white supremacist minority-rule state. | |
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The 4400: In "Voices Carry", Jordan Collier entered into business with an international weapons dealer named Ian Dravitt. His plan was to fund a coup in San Tomé, an island nation off the west coast of Africa (obviously based on the Central African island country of São Tomé and PrÃncipe), in the hope of installing a friendly government who would shelter the 4400 if it became necessary. NTAC discovered the plan through the telepathic Gary Navarro but they had no actual proof of any wrongdoing. | |
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The Madam Secretary episode "The Call" has the Republic of West Africa, said to be located between Gabon and Cameroon (the real-life location of Equatorial Guinea). The plot of the episode has Secretary McCord trying to organize an international response to the RWA's planned genocide of an ethnic minority. | |
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The eleventh episode of Airwolf was set in North and South Limbawe and featured the conflict between the two countries. The North Limbawe's air force used antique WWII fighter aircraft, like the Vought F4U Corsair (which would admittedly better fit in a Cold War Banana Republic setting). | |
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In Casino Royale (2006), the generic African country of Nambutu that Bond storms the embassy of in the Action Prologue. Its flag is a combo of the Djibouti and Mozambique one. The scenes were actually filmed in the Bahamas. | |
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In the The Avengers (1960s) episode "Small Game for Big Hunters" it's Kalaya. An old colonel who couldn't face the fact that Kalaya became independent has recreated his Kalayan HQ in rural England. There's a conspiracy to unleash an epidemic of sleeping sickness back in the real Kalaya. | |
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George of the Jungle, straddles the line between this and Darkest Africa, being a parody of Tarzan but set in what was then the present day. | |
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The early levels of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon are set in an unspecified East African country, before the action moves north. | |
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Legends of Tomorrow has Zambesi, Vixen's homeland and the origin of the spirit totem that she wears. Like Wakanda of the Marvel universe, however, Zambesi is more of a Hidden Elf Village than a normal example of this trope. | |
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MacGyver (1985) featured several such countries over the course of its run. The country Kambezi from one episode of this show is unusual in that at one point it was actually shown on a map (it was supposedly in the vicinity of South Africa). | |
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N'Mani's unnamed country in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Our only hint is that the signs on the buildings are in English, which leaves about 20 contenders, half that if we cut out those not bordering a large body of water like the one a Metal Gear RAY jumps out of. | |
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The Mission: Impossible episode "Kitara" was set in the gold-producing West African nation of Bocamo. It seems to be ruled by a settler minority of German descent, who are unfortunately white supremacists and practice racial segregation of the native populace. The episode the country appears in was clearly a satire on the apartheid-promoting Cold War governments of Rhodesia and South Africa. Another episode, "The Money Machine", had Ghalea, a small country whose pro-Western government was key to stability in the area. Other examples are Logosia from "The Crane" and Lombuanda from "The Diamond". | |
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