Does such a country as Belgium really exist, or is it an elaborate hoax?
Only one site, http://zapatopi.net/belgium.html dares to ask this question.
Well, how many people do you need asking a question like that?
The site also provides helpful links exposing other fraudulent places, such as Minneapolis, Idaho, Delaware, Vermont, Wisconsin, Wyoming, England and Winnipeg.
My first impulse was to immediately prove that Oregon doesn't exist, but gee, that sort of thing's been done, hasn't it? And once you have dispelled the Moon and the Sky, can making Oregon vanish in a puff of assertion be much of a challenge?
Kathe has always favored the idea that New Zealand is a work of fiction based on an idealized version of Oregon, but I'm thinking more in terms of revealing the existence of a state secretly admitted to the Union -- probably during the Civil War, when all sorts of irregular things were being done -- and maintained in secret by the Army or the Treasury Department as a useful place for doing secret things. Most likely, it's located between southeastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho -- after all, we already know Harney County is bigger than Oregon, as you can prove by trying to drive across it.
//The Magic 8-Ball says, "Go ask the Governor of Wallowa."\\
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