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Molvanîa is a fictional country set in Eastern Europe. It was created by Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, and Rob Sitch (of D-Generation and The Panel fame) to parody travel guidebooks. The book Molvania, A Land Untouched By Modern Dentistry describes the country as "the birthplace of the whooping cough" and "owner of Europe's biggest nuclear reactor."
The book became a surprise success in Australia, sparking a bidding war for the international publication rights. However, the book became a center of controversy when Former UK minister for Europe Keith Vaz accused the book of exploiting prejudices about Eastern Europe. There has also been some confusion about whether the country actually exists.
Some unfortunate tourists who read the tour guide book actually believed that the country existed and made plans to go there. When they asked about tickets for airplanes, however, they found out that no such country existed and that they had been tricked. Many of them filed lawsuit.
The authors are travel enthusiasts who have stated that they wished to present in a condensed and humorous form all their bad experiences in Europe, without insulting a particular country or all countries.
In 1986 the British author Malcolm Bradbury authored a similar guide book of 96 pages titled Why Come to Slaka? It used a good deal of wit to describe a fictional Eastern European country which was the setting for his novel Rates of Exchange"
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