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Freedonia en · PROPN

Popularized by the 1933 Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.

Used as a placeholder country name in textbook problems, classroom examples, etc.
- Suppose Thorndike and Williams, citizens of the country of Freedonia, become embroiled in a dispute as to whether Freedonia ought to attack the country of Sylvania. 2004, Steven M. Cahn, A New Introduction to Philosophy, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 96:
- That little terraformed planetoid, outside the mines and the drift, had been the base of supplies for Freedonia. 1949 February, Jack Williamson, “Seetee Shock”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, page 37:
- You are an advertising executive in Freedonia. Since before you were born, it has been illegal to advertise cigarettes on Freedonia television, one of the many limits on cigarette ads. 2022 [2011], Chris Roberts, Jay Black, Doing Ethics in Media: Theories and Practical Applications, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Hail, hail Freedonia, mightiest of mighty nations! Hail, hail Freedonia, land of the brave and free! 1933, Bert Kalmar et al., Duck Soup:
A self-proclaimed micronation (full name: the Principality of Freedonia) located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
- The principality of Freedonia (www.freedonia.org), an earnest collective of secessionist superlibertarians based in Boston, falls into the first category. 2000 March 14, Alex Blumberg, “It's Good to Be King”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2005:

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