A Christmas Prince, The Royal Wedding and The Royal Baby. (And the Princess Switch trilogy)

They’re about a woman from New York who falls in love with a prince from Europe and marries him.

I thought the country they live in is meant to be tiny like San Marino or Lichtenstein. And the film seems to suggest it’s the case, given they say Aldovia doesn’t have a military.

But this map (albeit from 1419) of Aldovia, Belgravia and Pengali, the latter being countries in a parallel in-universe project and a sequel would completely alter history if the countries were or are even a bit of the size.

Like obviously it’s a silly thing made for Americans who don’t understand the scale of Europe’s geography and history but it’s funny thinking about the historical ramifications.

What happened in either World Wars. Was Pengali part of the USSR? Or even further back with Napoleon or the 30 years war etc.

    • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
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      6 days ago

      definitely see people on here frequently taking the anti-treat stuff to an extreme hyper-Maoist sort of level, as if all escapism is bad

    • huf [he/him]
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      6 days ago

      no but if the place is just set dressing and basically consists of a name, why not use andorra or liechtenstein? they both sound like fantasy names, they both have weird prince shit going on, and they both exist.

      • Krem [he/him, they/them]
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        6 days ago

        or at least do 10 seconds of bland worldbuilding and put it like a normal euro mircrostate principality, squeezed in between the borders of two or three normal countries. but nooo, some dumbass at netflix production dept just went "it's europe, the countries are over here, in the general europe area"

        • huf [he/him]
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          6 days ago

          i'm looking forward to movies set in Los Vangelis, Chadifornia in the USA. why not.

      • jaywalker [they/them, any]
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        5 days ago

        Someone else would be saying: "why didn't they just make up a fake country if they weren't going to do it right?" The people actually making this shit are probably just trying to pay rent and don't care, their bosses definitely don't care beyond making money, and I guess the people watching it don't either. You've probably thought about it more in these comments than any of them ever did.