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	Molvanîa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The authors are travel enthusiasts who have stated that they wished to present in a condensed and humorous form all their bad experiences in Eastern Europe, without insulting a particular country or all countries.
		Molvania bears a striking similarity to the fictional country Elbonia mentioned/visited in the Dilbert comic strip.
		One problem is that the scale bar on a map implies the country is about half the size of the European continent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Molvania (775 words)

	Prague Discussion Forums - Molvania
		Molvania is an attractive proposition for the frugal but far-sightest real estate investor.
		With Molvania's projected entry into the E.U. in 2007 and adoption of the Euro in 2009, a modest investment now will be certain to pay off later.
		Even in the areas of Molvania hitherto shunned by tourists, radiation levels are falling steadily and a modicum of guile will make it possible to recruit gap-year kiddies to rebuilt the tractor repair shop with straw bale and wattle-and-daub technology at a fraction of the price of using equally-unskilled local labour.
	prague.tv /forum/1618 (235 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Weekend \| So you want to be alone? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The few visitors who make it to Molvania go because it has shunned the comforts of modernity, remaining in a state of suspended animation, one of the last former Soviet satellites yet to be homogenised by the euro, McDonald's or Simon Cowell.
		Molvania, a place that, according to a CIA factbook, gave the world a breed of dog called "the sneezing hound", beetroot liqueur and parsnip pudding, is about to become the subject of a travel guide.
		Molvania is only a three-hour flight from Luton airport, has no licensing laws and boasts a pharmacopoeia of indigenous liqueurs.
	www.guardian.co.uk /weekend/story/0,3605,1177580,00.html (2931 words)

	Oct 04 Staff Pick
		Molvania's brief flowering of Renaissance culture lasted for about three weeks sometime towards the end of 1503.
		Post World War II, Molvania came under Soviet rule, which ended in 1982 when the hated symbol of communist control, the Lutenblag Wall, collapsed, not because of democratic reform, but due to shoddy construction.
		In the town of Gyrorik you can find a prime example of Molvania's beautifully preserved past -one of the "oldest nuclear reactors still operating in the world." Molvania is a country caught between the old world and the new, where witch-burning is still not an indictable offence, yet there are nine government-funded TV networks.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/shared/SharedDisplay/0,,213912,00.html (468 words)

	Gallery Bookshop - Tony Miksak's Words On Books
		Molvania is the subject of a new and very funny guide book from JetLag Travel.
		Molvania, "the world's largest producer of beetroot and the birthplace of whooping cough" is a place like many others, only much more so.
		The staff at JetLag travel note that "Molvania was once described by a visiting writer as being 'at the crossroads of Eastern Europe' and -- despite suspicions by some that he was simply being ironic -- it retains a central place in European history.
	www.gallerybooks.com /bkm/wob041010.html (704 words)

	Edinburgh Student Newspaper : Entertainment : Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry is apparently the first time famous Australian satirical team Working Dog have been published in Britain, so this book is really a test of what the Aussies have to offer us.
		It should firstly be mentioned that Molvania is a fictional country, though it does take the reader a while to work that out as it is presented as an authentic travel book.
		Molvania is a fun book but it is basically like reading a slightly funny travel guide to a country that you are never going to go to.
	www.studentnewspaper.org /view_article.php?article_id=20040504173448 (306 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Molvania spoof mocks travel books
		A guidebook extolling the delights of the eastern European country of Molvania is causing controversy.
		The guide says Molvania is birthplace of whooping cough, one of the world's biggest parsnip producers and owner of Europe's oldest nuclear reactor.
		Supposedly sandwiched between Romania and Bulgaria, Molvania is described by the book's authors as "a land untouched by modern dentistry".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3592753.stm (339 words)

	The J-Walk Blog: Impressions Of Molvania
		I visited Molvania as a lad back in 1963 on a family vacation.
		Unfortunately, I had a problem with one of my teeth, and it was impossible to find a dentist in that country.
		Other than that, I remember Molvania as an enchanted land filled with short, smiling people who are always looking for a good deal on toilet paper.
	j-walkblog.com /index.php?/weblog/posts/impressions_of_molvania (99 words)

	Zladko Vladcik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zladko "Zlad!" Vladcik is a fictional character created by Australian comedian Santo Cilauro and is the unofficial mascot of Molvania.
		He is notorious on the Internet for the novelty pop song and music video "Elektronik Supersonik" which, according to Zlad!, "is a melodic fusion combining hot disco rhythms with cold war rhetoric."
		was to perform his hit single at the Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul, Turkey, but he was arrested at Atatürk Airport for possessing recreational drugs, and was immediately deported, disqualifying the tiny Eastern European republic of Molvania from the song contest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zladko_Vladcik (386 words)

	NAVY News :: Entertainment :: Book Review
		A Jetlag Travel Guide, Molvania: a land untouched by modern dentistry is a send-up of travel guides.
		Molvania is situated in Eastern Europe, its national drink is garlic brandy and the national anthem is sung to the tune of What a Feeling from Flashdance.
		Molvania: a land untouched by modern dentistry is set out like a real guide, broken into sections and filled with maps and plenty of disturbingly real pictures.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/NAVYNEWS/EDITIONS/4707/entertain/book01.htm (143 words)

	Boston.com / News / Odds & ends / Been everywhere? Get away to Molvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A new guide to "the land untouched by modern dentistry," published in Britain on Thursday, lists some of Molvania's highlights, including its nuclear reactor with genuine 1950s-era cracks and magnificent zoo with 1,000 animals, all crammed in one cage.
		Eating out in Molvania -- spiritual home of the polka and whooping cough -- is cheap, but you may have to pay extra for a waiter with a mustache, the guide advises.
		Travelers tempted by such a Stalinist paradise but maybe wary of this article's dateline should know that the book is real, even if the country, sadly, isn't.
	www.boston.com /news/odd/articles/2004/04/01/been_everywhere_get_away_to_molvania (219 words)

	mnot’s Web log: Next trip: Molvania
		Molvania (“A land untouched by modern dentistry”) looks like a really interesting country.
		Molvania’s national anthem was chosen in 1987 as part of a competition, with the winning entry coming from an elderly local composer V. ebren.
		It is sung to the tune of ‘Oh What a Feeling’ from Flashdance, with the third verse generally considered optional, as it is in contravention of EU laws against racial vilification.
	www.mnot.net /blog/2003/12/27/next_trip_molvania (585 words)

	Molvania - One Hell of a Weekend
		Staijon Kentral is chaos when we arrive and it is difficult to locate the ticket counter to collect our second class sleeper tickets; which Andrew booked on the internet.
		Bar Bljodnik is first up and a few Debrizca's are despatched, Anna and Andrew are into a detailed discussion about the circumflex and the semi colon.
		After a few more Debrizcas it is time to empty the bladder, the toilet door is a little unusual, I spy the button to lock the door inside the door handle on the outside of the door.
	homepage.mac.com /craggyisland/molvania/page2.html (1563 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry (Jetlag Travel Guide S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Molvania is one of the most hilarious books that I have read.
		The three authors have created a brilliant parody of those travel books that always have a slightly optimistic edge to the copy despite the country they are writing about possibly being a bit of a third-rate dump.
		The rest of the book is devoted to a full description of the five regions with information about the main towns, hotels, where to eat and what to see.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1843542323 (903 words)

	The J-Walk Blog: Impressions Of Molvania (Comments)
		J-Walk were to return to Molvania, he would find it now swarming with teeth.
		Never having been to Central Europe, I personally have spent far more time in Phaic Tan, which I think would have been a far better choice to examine on this particular date.
		Or at least Molvania's neighbor, Freedonia, where I always wanted to go so I could try the duck soup.
	j-walkblog.com /index.php?/weblog/comments/12268 (1295 words)

	Bored? Try Molvania, birthplace of whooping cough
		A new guide to "the land untouched by modern dentistry", published last month, lists some of Molvania's highlights, including its nuclear reactor with genuine 1950s-era cracks and magnificent zoo with 1 000 animals, all crammed in one cage.
		Eating out in Molvania - spiritual home of the polka and whooping cough - is cheap, but you may have to pay extra for a waiter with a moustache, the guide advises.
		Travellers tempted by such a Stalinist paradise but maybe wary of this article's dateline should know that the book is real, even if the country, sadly, isn't.
	www.namibian.com.na /2004/april/world/0438BA46FD.html (457 words)

	Across the Pond!: Holiday in Molvania
		However, upon reading the first few pages, one quickly realizes that this book is simply a brilliant mickey-take of travel guides and the whole travel industry.
		Molvania isn’t some cozy little nation that the tourist companies forgot, it’s a destination that merits forgetting about!
		Molvania also produces 83% of the world’s beetroot.
	www.knipe.org.uk /blogs/carla/archive/individual/2004/06/16_holiday_in_molvania.html (555 words)

	some words to not
		in a radio show i participated in i played a character who supposedly comes from the republic of molvania.
		one of the funniest things i've seen in a long long time, a completely fake travel guide that looks totally real, about a non-existant republic called molvania.
		the west of molvania is also something of a paradox: much of it was spoiled by 40 years of rampant post-war industrialization, but here and there you can still find areas of great natural beauty that were only ruined a few years ago.
	web.media.mit.edu /~guy/blog/entry.php?12100402 (262 words)

	All systems gone, prepare for down-count \| MetaFilter
		Molvania's Eurovision entry, for those who were wondering but too lazy to edit a URL.
		Molvania is a delightful country, well represented by the book from Jetlag Travel.
		The guy on the left is Santo Cilauro, whose grandfather is the gentleman on the cover of the Molvania ("a land untouched my modern dentistry") guide book.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/34312 (727 words)

	InsideOut Travel—Tom Gleisner, Real Author of Fake Molvania Guidebook Cont.
		We trace the origins of Molvania to a trip that the three of us made over a decade ago to Portugal.
		We really do enjoy travel but are also able to laugh at the pretensions of so-called “serious” travelers, the sort of people who have always been somewhere before you have and swear it was so much better when they first visited.
		The character Philippe in “Molvania” is an example of this sort of person.
	www.insideoutmag.com /0105/lifejump0105.htm (619 words)

	Molvania (book) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		"Molvania: A Land Untouched By Modern Dentistry" is the first of the "Jetlag Travel Guides", a series of humorous satires on fictional countries.
		Molvania is supposed to be a former Soviet Republic, although its name is most probably a play on the names of certain provinces in Romania.
		This is from the book "Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry", by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, and Rob Sitch.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fic_molv.html (97 words)

	Greetings from Molvania - October 8, 2004 - The New York Sun
		But the authors of "Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry" (The Overlook Press, 176 pages, $13.95) have outdone my profession by concocting a thinly fictitious East European country and dousing it with a toxic dose of "Lonely Planet" wisdom.
		The book is worth the price for the photo captions alone, paired throughout with badly taken pictures that seem to have been culled from Soviet tourist brochures (read: propaganda) from the 1970s.
		Then there is the sidebar on the Father of Modern Molvania, "blurred visionary" Szlonko Busjbusj, who famously shortened the Molvanian alphabet by 33 letters and amended the constitution to include a Bill of Rights guaranteeing all citizens the right to bear a grudge.
	www.nysun.com /article/2945 (693 words)

	Molvania: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
		Molvania: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
		Molvania Find a huge variety of nonfiction books at eBay, from art and photography to true crime, it's all on eBay.
		Posts tagged “molvania” per day for the last 30 days.
	www.technorati.com /tag/molvania (223 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		With tongue firmly planted in cheek, three well-known Australian satirists have written a travel guide about under-explored Molvania, and it seems appropriate that in a historic week when the EU welcomed 10 new member countries, almost all Eastern European nations, we take a look at the one that was left out.
		And we're very disappointed in fact that Molvania wasn't admitted to the EU, because Molvania was part of the coalition of the willing, although they've pulled out their troops now.
		In fact -- I was just going to say that Molvania had a space program and Sputsfutz III (ph) was made in Molvania, the first country to land a person on Poland.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0405/01/i_c.01.html (3075 words)

	Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry - ReadingBee.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Republic of Molvania, known as the birthplace of whooping cough and the Molvanian Sneezing Hound, has been largely ignored by the backpacking set in its sweep through post-Communist Europe.
		This may have something to do with the country’s miserable landscape, miserable weather, miserable food, and miserable, surly populace; on the other hand, it may have something to do with the fact that Molvania doesn’t exist.
		In format and page layout, this inspired send-up of a travel guide looks exactly like the real thing, and it displays an acute feel for all the clichés of the genre, including testimonials that instruct how to have an uncomfortable “authentic” experience, rather than a “bland, westernized” one.
	www.readingbee.com /review/book1585676195.html (332 words)

	Amazon.com: Phaic Tan (Jetlag Travel Guide): Books: Santo Cilauro,Tom Gleisner,Rob Sitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A fascinating land of contrasts with one foot in the past and another striding determinedly forward, Phaic Tan truly is a nation going in circles.
		Molvania was hilarous because, though greatly exaggerated, everything (almost everything) had a grain of truth.
		Certainly, the jokes are there, the non sequiturs are abound, but few are as entertaining, poignant, bizarre, and funny as in Molvania.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0811853659?v=glance (1508 words)

	Neatorama » Blog Archive » Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry.
		Neatorama » Blog Archive » Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry.
		Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry is a hilarious travel guidebook parody of the fictional country Molvania:
		One Comment to “Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry.”
	www.neatorama.com /2006/08/18/molvania-a-land-untouched-by-modern-dentistry (102 words)

	Jewlicious » New book sheds light on Molvania and little known Molvanian Jews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		During the Dark Ages Molvania enjoyed a short period as a Muslim country, but the Koran’s strict teachings against drinking, violence and extra-marital sex never caught on with the local population.
		Consequently, Molvania remains to this day a poor country with a huge trade deficit and little or no domestic commerce.
		Furthermore, Molvania has never fielded any kind of Olympic team and has what are considered the very worst athletes in the world.
	www.jewlicious.com /?p=108 (421 words)

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