Moosesylvania -  Fictional country  mentioned on the animated cartoon ROCKY & HIS FRIENDS/ABC/1959-61. According to the storyline "Moosesylvania" was the "wettest, soggiest, dreariest place on Earth (you forgot useless). Situated directly between the United States and Canada (75 miles from International falls), Moosesylvania had the distinction of being constantly fought over by both countries. The United States insisted it was a part of Canada, and Canada insisted it was a part of the United States." It was the vacation site of Bullwinkle (Bill Scott) the Moose and his friend Rocky, the flying squirrel (June Foray). Once, Rocky asked Bullwinkle why he always vacationed in Moosesylvania? He responded "After two weeks in Moosesylvania, any place else in the world seems like heaven." When Boris Badenov (Paul Frees), a nefarious Pottsylvanian spy learned he had an assignment in Moosylvania, he begged his Fearless Leader to reconsider. "Send me to Siberia, Wilkes-Barre but NOT Moosesylvania!" Jay Ward, the creator of the Rocky & Bullwinkle characters bought a real island off the coast of Minnesota and named it Moosesylvania. In an attempt to have his island adopted for statehood, Jay Ward and friend, Howard Brandy (the model for Dudley Do-Right) drove across the country in a Ford Econoline van equipped with circus Calliope music. They visited over fifty cities and gathered signatures from fans in support of his project. Their idea for statehood was soon scuttled upon their arrival in Washington, D.C. For you see, as they jokingly approached the gates of the White House to gain support for their statehood idea, they were unaware that they had arrived on the same day as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Oh well, the best laid plans of Moose and Men.