Freedonia

alternative Fredonia

1. Used as a placeholder country name in textbook problems, classroom examples, etc.

   Hail, hail Freedonia, mightiest of mighty nations! Hail, hail Freedonia, land of the brave and free!

   1933, Bert Kalmar et al., Duck Soup

   3 more examples

   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

   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

   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

2. 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 28, Alex Blumberg, “It's Good to Be King”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2005