Borduria

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  1. An imaginary country located in the Balkans and enemy of Syldavia, in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin.
    — Graustark, Ruritania, Borduria, Syldavia and a score of imaginary kingdoms, usurped by tyrants and sundered by fights for the throne, leap into mind: plots, treachery, imprisoned heirs and palace factions abound and, along with them, fiendish monocled swordsmen, queens in lonely towers, toppling ranges, deep forests, plains full of half-wild horses, wandering tribes of Gypsies who steal children out of castles and dye them...
  2. A village in Arunachal Pradesh, India.
    — The feuds between Namsang and Borduria continued. In 1875-76 the dispute between the Namsang and Borduria arose about the buffaloes which were carried off by Borduria people from Namsang areas.
  3. A generic name of a fictional country, generally contrasted with a rival counterpart Syldavia. broadly
    — Is Syldavia a more unequal society than Borduria? For an inequality comparison to be meaningful, then the answer "yes, Syldavia is more unequal than Borduria" must also imply, in the other direction, "Borduria is less unequal than Syldavia."

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From French Bordurie, from bordure (“border”). Coined by Hergé in 1939 for King Ottokar's Sceptre.
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