America, India
America, is a village just a few kilometres from Falodi and Kheechan, 140 kms off Jodhpur in the state of Rajasthan, India.
Its actual name happens to be Lordiyan, but, over the years, it has acquired the tag "America" - and each villager seems to have his own reason for calling it so.
"America" has 100% literacy and is self-reliant in many respects.
Ironically, many houses in America have the works of Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin. And, the village is supposed to have birthed the Communist movement in Rajasthan! This village used to be called Lalchin (after Red China) due to belief in Communist ideology in 1960s.
It appears that even as Red China adopted free market socialism, Rajasthan's own Lalchin turned into America!