I call them, "fictional" because as far as I can tell, I have to imagine these things existed.
You have ancestors that lived during the time that Christ walked the earth, but you don't have any idea of their names, appearances, etc. You can only imagine them. Does that make them fictional? Of course not.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams