As a Spaniard I've seen horrors from Dan Brown and Tom Clancy, basically placing us as 3rd world country (if they knew about the actual, hugely culture and cli

As a Spaniard I've seen horrors from Dan Brown and Tom Clancy, basically placing us as 3rd world country (if they knew about the actual, hugely culture and climate diverse Spain, from cold minus ten-twenty winters to scorching summers), as if we set the USA as some hell-like country with a mix betwen Detroit and some Americana ruralia with a Far West lore with some corrupt NYC cops on top. Or Tom Clamcy mixing Spain with Latin America and USA tropes on race fights to depict the political struggles in Spain, which we have nothing to do with Latin America tropes as it's a damn ocean between them and US and things diverged as much as the USA with the UK, if not further because of France, Italy and UK's influence from centuries ago, either by land or by sea (For instance, Bay of Biscay's coal -> UK's factories for the Industrial Revolution).