Stark Industries and run by Tony Stark. In a What If story, the company is known as "Stark Interplanetary" and was the creators of the Irondroids In the world of Amalgam, the company is known as Stark Aircraft (itself a merger between Stark Industries and Ferris Aircraft). The only known employees are Janice Doremus, Pepper Ferris, Happy Kalmaku, Stewart Rhodes, Hal Stark. In the MCU, Stark Industries is headed by Tony Stark and has a significant influence in both the films and television series. Stark Industries Stark Industries (NYSE: SIA, NASDAQ: STRK, fictional), later also known as Stark International, Stark Innovations, Stark/Fujikawa,
Fictional country and some thrillers also use fictional countries on Earth as backdrops. Most of these countries exist only for a single story, a TV-series episode or an issue of a comic book. There are notable exceptions, such as Qumar and Equatorial Kundu in "The West Wing", Marvel Comics Latveria and DC Comics Qurac and Bialya. Fictional countries often deliberately resemble or even represent some real-world country or present a utopia or dystopia for commentary. Variants of the country's name sometimes make it clear what country they really have in mind. By using a fictional country instead of a real one, authors