The book became a surprise success in Australia, sparking a bidding war for the international publication rights. However, the book became a center of controversy when Former UK minister for Europe Keith Vaz accused the book of exploiting prejudices about Eastern Europe. There has also been some confusion about whether the country actually exists.
Some unfortunate tourists who read the tour guide book actually believed that the country existed and made plans to go there. When they asked about tickets for airplanes, however, they found out that no such country existed and that they had been tricked. Many of them filed lawsuit.
The authors are travel enthusiasts who have stated that they wished to present in a condensed and humorous form all their bad experiences in Europe, without insulting a particular country or all countries.
In 1986 the British author Malcolm Bradbury authored a similar guide book of 96 pages titled Why Come to Slaka? It used a good deal of wit to describe a fictional Eastern European country which was the setting for his novel Rates of Exchange"
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.
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.
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