Moosylvania is a fictional island located in the Lake of the Woods along the Canada–United States border that served as a plot device in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
In the fall of 1962, Jay Ward, producer of the Rocky and Bullwinkle show, decided to campaign for statehood for Moosylvania.
Ward sent Skip Craig to Minnesota to buy an island in Lake of the Woods.
[2]: 195 Ward and publicist Howard Brandy conducted a cross-country tour in a decorated van,[3] gathering signatures on a petition for statehood for Moosylvania.
[2]: 199 However, they arrived at the White House on the very day the Cuban Missile Crisis broke, and were ordered to leave.