Isn't there a game based on/in Hell Michigan?
Also, I've heard of 'The Badlands' but not 'The Bandlands'. If I had to plan a trip I'd definitely go to the latter.

SHIT. I knew I'd screw that up. It is Badlands. :P

^^
This.

New, but not hardcover...

http://www.standaardboekhandel.be/seo/nl/boeken/vertaalde-literaire-fictie/9789029587099/george-orwell/1984

Sure, but your government doesn't help with a tourist site such as www.holland.com . And it's stil preferable it to Dietsland... ( which would correspond to the word Dutch, but has a very specific national-socialist meaning)
Sounds a bit like Frankensteinland to me :-p, but The Netherlands are a lacking the mountains that would come with that name.

thats very well possible cause i learned in our history class at school that the dutch had a
tendency (dutch: neiging, strekking, aanleg )
to create some descendants.

Many people and countries seem to be facinated by those strange dutch people.
We are small but also very existing.

On the whole, the level of English amongst our politicians isn't terribly good either. We just like to pretend that we're awesome at everything. :P The other posters are correct in saying that many Dutch people do call it Holland, but I disagree with that practice and have always been taught that it's wrong. So, I'll persist in calling it the Netherlands.

It can be dangerous to tell people in foreign countries you're Dutch, though, as they sometimes seem to confuse it with "Deutsch" and try to hand you a German audio tour. :-)

Strange thing about the english word 'The Netherlands' if you translate it into Dutch 'De Nederlanden' it sounds like referring to the 'Republic of the Seven United Provinces' aka 'De Nederlanden'. It was a kind of confederacy of counties that together freed themselves from Spanish Rule. But since the time we have a king (1815, after the defeat of Napoleon and the Treaty of Paris we became a Kingdom instead of a Republic) - if I am right - the name of the country is designated in the singular instead of the plural.

We Dutch call our country neither 'Holland' (well sometimes, but then you get the annoying result of equalizing the country with just two of it's provinces in the west) nor 'The Netherlands' (a word that's only used in english translation), but 'Nederland' or "Netherland' (singular) if you were to translate it literally.

But "I am from Netherland" just sounds stupid in english, just as if you don't know the english language and instead are speaking in Dutchish or whatever you call it.

On topic:

my recommendation would be boekwinkeltjes.nl

1984 gives these results:

http://www.boekwinkeltjes.nl/uitgebreid_zoeken.php?schrijver=George+Orwell&titel=1984&overig=&tweedehands=1&nieuw=1

'gebonden' translates to bound volume which, if I know enough about book terminology, is always hardcover,
'stofomslag' means the book is bound in linen.

Actually, Nederlanden, in low German (or "diets" language) , refered to the "Low Countries", that is Northern Europe the parts of the Habsbourg Empire that were inherited by Felipe II from Charles V. That territory included most of modern day Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, the part of Hainaut (Valenciennes) , Eclesiastic states (Cambrai) and Flanders (Lille) that are now French, and what was formerly Artois, now in France as well. The 7 provinces are the result of the uprising against the Spanish... the Sapnish King was nominally head of each of the states ( thus Duke of Brabant, Count of Zealand, ...) except for the territories belonging to the church, where he was a mere protector ... The low countries were thus multiple legal entities, hence the plural.

Nether Regions has a nice ring to it.

Thumbs up and rated high for the clarifications. Thanks! You know a lot of our common history!