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Monkeydonia is a semi-derogative term used to describe the country of FYROM (North Macedonia). The reason behind the mocking is due to the historical revisionist / misleading / cultural appropriative nature of the North [Macedonians]. This tactic is known as antiquization - a form of historical quackery.

Essentially what the history is, originally the land in ancient times was known as the Paeonian Kingdom. King Agis died, then Phillip 2 of Macedon (a real authentic Greek Macedonian - the real [macedonians]) conquered Paeonian land and turned it into a vassal of Greek Macedonia.

Around the sixth century, the slavs settled the balkans, becoming known as the south slavs. This land was no longer Greek - Macedonian inhabitants, it was now a slavic land. This area specifically became [associated] with the Bulgarians as they were Slavicized from the 7th to 10th century. [Eventually] much later, Turkish Ottomans took over the land. The [nationalist] Western-Bulgarians in the late 1800s revolted. They adopted the title "macedonian" as reference to the ancient land, not as a ethno-nationalist [qualifier]. Later, yugoslav-communist propaganda turned this into a deeper lie, insinuating that the Western-Bulgarians are "real Macedonian people" (false).

Essentially, the modern day people are descendants of Bulgarian ancestry. So they should not be called Macedonian. However, they deserve a distinct identity, so some have theorized renaming the country as Vardaria, and the language as Vardzarija.

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