Editing Dilbert (section)

=== Elbonia ===
Elbonia is a fictional non-specific under-developed country used when Adams wants "to involve a foreign country without hurting overseas sales". He says "People think I have some specific country in mind when I write about Elbonia, but I don't. It represents the view that Americans have of any country that doesn't have cable television—we think they all wear fur hats and wallow around waist-deep in mud".<ref>Seven years of Defective People"&nbsp;— page 184, "Elbonians"</ref><ref group=note>However, in a storyline from November 21–26, 2016, Dilbert visits Elbonia. The only location seen is his hotel room and a car rental, neither of which are covered in mud.{{cite web| url = https://dilbert.com/strip/2016-11-23| title = Dilbert.com 2016-11-23}}</ref> The entire country wears the same clothing and hats, and all men and women<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G0KlbdTvOE8C&q=elbonia+beard+women&pg=PA89| title=Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert| author=Scott Adams| date=October 21, 2008| access-date=July 1, 2021| publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing| isbn=978-0740777356| page=89| quote=".. I made all Elbonians look identical, even the women, with long black beards ..."}}</ref>
have full beards. They are occasionally bitter towards their wealthier western neighbors, but are quite happy to trade with them. The whole country is covered in mud, and has limited technology.

Elbonia is located somewhere in the former [[Eastern Bloc]]: a strip dated April 2, 1990, refers to the "Tiny [[East European]] country of Elbonia." It is an extremely poor, [[Least Developed Countries|fourth-world]] country that "has abandoned [[Communism]]".<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1990-04-02/| title = Dilbert.com 1990-04-02| access-date = April 24, 2018| archive-date = October 24, 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131024131729/http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1990-04-02/| url-status = dead}}</ref> The national bird of Elbonia is the [[Frisbee]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1991-10-14/| title = Dilbert.com 1991-10-14| access-date = April 24, 2018| archive-date = January 9, 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150109092234/http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1991-10-14| url-status = dead}}</ref>