In Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Oompa-Loompas originally live in Loompaland.
Willy Wonka describes Loompaland as a dangerous, remote country where the Oompa-Loompas face predators and struggle to find food. He brings them to his factory, where they work and sing moralizing songs about the children’s bad behavior.
Loompaland is a fictional setting created for the novel. The Oompa-Loompas’ songs provide some of the book’s sharpest satire, turning each child’s defeat into a comic lesson about greed, gluttony, television or poor manners.
The 1971 film used the name Loompaland as well, while later adaptations revised aspects of the Oompa-Loompas’ presentation. Loompaland should not be confused with Wonka’s factory, which is located elsewhere and is the main setting of the story.