This article analyses the drivers and developments of the recent rise of a fictional region: Tabarnia in Spain. This platform proposes the creation of a new autonomous region to oppose the project of secession of the independentist Catalan movement. Given the dearth of academic research, our article documents and explores the case of Tabarnia. We draw on a multimethod approach, entailing a thematic analysis and process-tracing, to reconstruct the trajectory of this platform and to uncover its drivers, goals and strategies. By building on this evidence base, this article construes Tabarnia as an instance of imaginary regionalism created ex nihilo in the noosphere. As such, Tabarnia represents an a-topia substantiated through a digital region-building process heavily relying on the use of humour.

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用想象拯救民族团结：以塔巴尼亚为例

本文分析了一个虚构地区最近崛起的驱动因素和发展：西班牙的塔巴尼亚。该平台提议建立一个新的自治区，以反对独立的加泰罗尼亚运动的分离计划。鉴于缺乏学术研究，我们的文章记录并探讨了塔巴尼亚的案例。我们采用多方法方法，包括主题分析和过程跟踪，以重建该平台的轨迹并揭示其驱动因素、目标和策略。通过建立在这个证据基础上，本文将塔巴尼亚解释为在知识圈中凭空创造的想象区域主义的一个例子。因此，Tabarnia 代表了一个通过高度依赖幽默的数字区域建设过程得到证实的a-topia 。