In a fictional European capital, an American veteran looks for a new apartment, aided by a woman with whom he may or may not be in love.
I waited for him in the offices of Raviga, the show's fictional venture-capital firm.
He escapes to the fictional Eastern European capital of Prava and, through a phony investment scheme, begins fleecing its young, moneyed expatriates with self-actualizing zeal.
Eponyms – things named after people, real or fictional – generally lose their capital letters as they become more familiar and enter the lexicon: boycott, caesarean, draconian, fallopian, fuchsia, martinet, quixotic and many other words all began life as people's names.
His willing partner is Zoe Barnes (played by Kate Mara), a reporter/blogger at The Washington Herald, a fictional establishment newspaper in the capital.
But John Lanchester, author of the bestselling "Fragrant Harbour", chose the fictional Pepys Road as the setting for "Capital", his new state-of-the-nation story.
Last season, American Horror Story: Cult, in an alternative Clinton/Trump electoral reality, the show followed the story of a murderous cult led by a fictional psychopath who leads them to pursue political capital during the 2018 US presidential election.
Ha Jin brings a spare documentary approach to this fictional account of the 1937 Japanese occupation of Nanjing, then the capital of China's nationalist government.
The country's capital has been transformed into "the middle of Middle Earth", the fictional world created by Tolkien as a uniquely Anglo-Saxon mythological playground and populated by hobbits, dwarves, elves, dragons, trolls, goblins and wizards.
