Afghanistanism
n.— «For years, Americans went about their daily lives under the false impression that faraway places like Afghanistan didn’t matter. Newspapers even had a term for news stories that were irrelevant to local readers: “Afghanistanism.”» —“Iraq, Afghanistan and Oregon” Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon) Dec. 6, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
In addition to all those towns with extremely short names, there’s the river in Oregon with a similarly tiny appellation. It’s known simply as the D River. This is part of a complete episode.
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