Stasiland is a 2001 non-fiction novel by Australian journalist Anna Funder. Fascinated by the German language and history, Funder moves to the former East Germany, a land which no longer exists on paper but is still definitely there, to collect the stories from former German Democratic Republic. She meets with ex-Stasi informers, workers, spies and their victims. The novel questions the human cost of the GDR, the reasoning behind the wall and the point of communism, the twentieth century's experiment on humans.