We all yearn for an escape of the mundane, where instead of getting up every morning for work, we travel to fantastical lands and save entire realms. Well, while there are plenty of stories that offer that kind of escapism, there is an inescapable reality: you don’t want to live in those worlds. Not really.
Dreaming is all well and good, but being in those worlds for real would be far too dangerous. At least you wouldn’t be in them for long; you’d meet your demise almost instantly. These are just a few of ‘fun’ fictional lands that, all in all, are better to just hear about rather than experience.
The Hunger Games
Panem looks visually fascinating from the outside, but living there means surviving extreme class inequality and the constant possibility of children being forced into televised death matches.
The Wizarding World
Hogwarts seems magical until you remember the school regularly exposes children to deadly monsters, cursed objects, dangerous sports injuries, and teachers with surprisingly weak safety standards.
