fun with the internet

In the book "Quicksilver" it's often hard to know what stuff is based on reality and what is fictional. I was looking at the amazon.com reviews of the work, and this led me to the wikipedia article on the Baroque Cycle, which has an entire section listing the elements which are fictional. "Aha!" I thought to myself when I learned that Qwglhm is actually a fictional country. "Well of course it is!" you might think to yourself, but "Quicksilver" is so well-written and the fictional stuff is so thoroughly intertwined with the historical stuff that I did find myself wondering if Qwglhm was just some place I had never heard of before.

Another intertwining of fiction and history in the book: the origin of the word "cabal" - based on the first letters in the names of the five people who formed the first cabal. Although the five characters in the book are fictional, the word apparently does stem from the initials of five crucial individuals.

Anyway, at the bottom of the wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwghlm) there was a link to a list of "Fictional European Countries" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_European_countries).
God I love the internet!