In Popular Culture
Padania is featured the anime/manga Gunslinger Girl which features a pro-Padania terrorist group named the Five Republics Faction and the Italian counterintelligence and counter-terrorist agency called the Social Welfare Agency which tries to stop them.
Padania is mentioned in the William Gibson novel Virtual Light, in which the world political map is implied to be heavily fractured.
Padania is the title of the tenth studio album by the Afterhours, an Italian rock band from Milan.
The Padania national football team has won the VIVA World Cup in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
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