Godzone

New Zealand.

Proper noun

  1. New Zealand.
    • It always looks so ridiculous, Joe hefty and twice his child's size – but that's the way we do it in good old Godzone. - 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 95:

Origin

Contraction of God’s own country, modelled after zone (“area or region of the world”). The word was possibly modified from the title of the poem “God’s Own Country” (1890) by the New Zealand poet and politician Thomas Bracken (1843–1898).

Related

God's own country God's own county