: Re: What are the advantages and disadvantages of setting a story in a made up country, compared to a real one? I have story ideas that involve civil wars or revolutions happening while a character

Three main advantages:

You won't have to actually research that country... If you set the story in Iraq, there is a lot of history and politics that your readers are already aware of, and your fictional iraq must share much of the same history as the iraq that people know.
You won't risk offending the actual country. If you write about a real country like China, India, Saudi Arabia, etc. etc., many of them can get very sensitive about your portrayal of their country.
You can have a lot more artistic liberty about your fictional country.

There is a key disadvantage....

You risk looking like a mega racist. Now you making broad stroke assumptions about an entire continent...

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