Fredonia is a land in northern Vespuciland in Gloriana.
Background
Not much is known about the land. Alichica moved to Fredonia from Shapeir after his market stall was burnt by the Fire Elemental.
Fredonia is located in northern Vespuciland, and includes states such as California, Kansas, Iowa, New York, Colorado, and Alaska, and containing cities such as Petalumeir, Fresno and Oakhurst.
The Mason-Dixon line divides the land between the north and the south.[1] Dixie land lies to the south of the line.[2] The Navaho live in the deserts to the southwest.
Famous individuals from Fredonia include Harry Houdini.
In the future Dr. Cranium's great-grandson Dr. Brain lives, Fredonia is apparently known by the United States, and he also refers to the world as Earth.
States
Cities
- Petalumeir[4]
- Fresno
- Lytton[5]
- Gilroy
- East L. A.
- Cleveland
- San Francisco
- Albuquerque
- Oakhurst
- Coarsegold
- Kalamazoo
- Boulder
- Pebble Beach
- Corning
- New York
- Ponderosa
Landmarks
- Leyendecker Museum
- Yosemite National Park
- Carnegie Hall
- Mason-Dixon
- Half Moons Bay
- 101
- Boulder Dam
- Sierra On-line
Famous People
- Oliver Stone
- Rock Hudson
- Elmer Gantree
- George Bush
- Woodrow Wilson
- Mel Gibson
- O'Reilly, the Radar
- Will Robinson
- Jones
- Elvis
- Ronald
Behind the scenes
Alichica seemingly has a map of Fredonia behind his stall: while it claimed to be a map of the streets and alleys of Shapeir; it seemed to include main land United States, and Alaska (lower left edge of the map) and other islands related to a Polynesian island state of the nation (lower right) surrounded by water. (It doesn't resemble the actual map in the game.)
Fredonia is an homage to Freedonia.[6] The term Fredonia (or Freedonia) was originally used after the American Revolution as an alternate term for the United States of America. It was later popularized as an imaginary country in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup (QFG2 contains a number of homages to the Marx Brothers; Alichica is a reference to Chico Marx[7]). Freedonia was the land of the "home of the knave and the land of the spree" and was a satirical spoof on the America, which was known as the "home of the brave and the land of the free".
Fredonia, New York,[8] is a real-life village which started a feud with the Marxes, because of that movie.
Also related if you ask Alichica about ducks he will even mention making duck soup.
References
- ↑ Like a floral alliance of the Mason-Dixon and Maginot lines, a row of bushes prevent you from moving south.
- ↑ QFG1
- ↑ QFG4"...What did Tenna see?"
- ↑ QFG2 and QFG5; an injoke to Petaluma, California
- ↑ QFG1EGA, an injoke to the Police Quest series
- ↑ Freedonia at Wikipedia
- ↑ Chico Marx at Wikipedia
- ↑ Fredonia, New York at Wikipedia