Why does DC have so many made up countries?

>>90089303

Made-up countries are useful because you can do whatever you want to them without pissing anybody off.

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>>90089416
Yeah but

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>>90089303
Marvel's got a bunch too

>>90089416
But are also convenient real life counterparts.

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I wonder if DC knew Santa Prisca is already the name of a church in Rome before making it a tiny island with the worlds most infamous prison on it.

>>90089495
And that is one of the most mocked sections of an otherwise good comic.

>>90089626
if there's a thing named after a saint, there is 50 things named after that saint.

>>90089416
plus the fact that the audience doesnt know the country, where it is, anything about it, is in-character for countries like that who are like 20 years old max

I wish DC had more made up cities and countries

Marvel having less makes Doom cry about the Twin Towers

Is that Jordan and Iraq

>>90089303
Because then the writer can just make shit up rather than have to learn about different countries and cultures.

>>90089810
Jordan is like 1/4 the size of Iraq but the shapes are similar, good eye.

>>90089495
That's exactly what the made-up countries are supposed to circumvent.

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Who Kasnia here?

>>90089303
aren't we literally expecting a Marvel movie set in the fictional African country of Wakanda this year?

>>90089653
Yeah, but it was funny.
Wasn't that the point?

Nice try Puerto Rico and/ or Cuba, get your edgy OC nation out of here.

>>90089303
>QURAC
I'm fucking dying

t. Balkan

>>90090449
>inb4 argument over what the Joker's sense of humor should be

>>90090379
Yeah, but wakanda isn't a mock up of an existing country. You need it to tell panthers story.

So Latveria and Genosha are real?

>>90090667
this

It's analogous to Aquaman's Atlantis

>>90090574
>dick

>>90089303
Real answer: Because it's an easy way to go vaguely "middle eastern" or vaguely "north African" with less risk of offending someone or getting -too- political; and because in some cases, it allows you to shape a region as belonging to a specific hero or villain, in the vein of Doom's Latveria, Batman's Gotham, or BP's Wakanda.

Lore-friendly answer: Because DC's Earth is canonically, physically larger than the real-life Earth.

>>90090692
Yes, and let me tell you, the internet in Latveria is shit

>>90089810
Iraq and Libya, respectively.

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>>90090129
>>90091353
look p similar desu

>>90089626
Why the fuck did you post Taxco and not Rome?

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>>90089810
>>90091353
>>90091670
It's Syria and Iraq. lrn2geography.

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>>90089303
dat flag tho

>>90089303
Isnt the DC Earth ten percent bigger than our Earth?

>>90089416
>He doesn't remember Carbombya

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>>90089303
It's not just DC. Even Transformers has made up countries.

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>>90094224
>car bomb ya city

>>90094224
That looks like a dangerous place for an Autobot to go to.

Same logic as fake cities. Allows you to characterize them to suit the narrative rather than being stuck with existing history and culture and shit.

>>90094224
>>90095386

Thats the stuff that made Casey Kasum (however you spell his name) quit VAing for TF too.

Still one of the best episodes. And they still reference the place even today.

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>>90090262
>Live in Vlatava
>Have your nation be a laughing stock because your monarch and God appointed king likes to fuck around with a Robin Hood prick
>A violent civil war breaks out and an American plant-bitch is mind controlling your king
>Eventually the Spectre just comes in and burns the entire country to the ground

Being Vlatavian is suffering

>>90095865
It also allows you to stay with the times, in a way. Gotham will always have the same feel as Gotham, but the Hell's Kitchen of the 70's is very different than the Hell's Kitchen of today.

>>90090262
Shouldn't you be overthrowing your king or something???

>>90089303
"Suka bliya!" the country.

>>90094224
>4000 people
>10000 camels
I kek'd