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===Brutopia===
'''Brutopia''' (a [[Blend word|blend]] of ''brute'' and ''Utopia'') is a [[fictional country]] appearing in several [[Donald Duck]] stories. It was created by [[Carl Barks]] in the story ''A Cold Bargain'' from 1957. Brutopia is a hostile country, aiming for world domination. It hence is clearly a [[caricature]] of the [[Soviet Union]]. In the Duck universe, Brutopia occasionally attempts to steal Scrooge's money so as to devastate the American economy, and to fund the creation of doomsday weaponry. Its [[national coat of arms]] has been shown either as a dagger<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Cold Bargain|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++17-02|access-date=2016-03-10|website=coa.inducks.org}}</ref> or the hammer and shackles.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Swamp of No Return|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++57-02|access-date=2016-03-10|website=coa.inducks.org}}</ref>

Whether Brutopia is a stand-in for all of the USSR, or just for part of it, varies with the story.{{cn|date=March 2023}} Sometimes parallels to Russia are drawn directly. Don Rosa has suggested that Brutopia might instead represent the eastern part of [[Siberia]].{{cn|date=March 2023}}

The language of Brutopia often looks somewhat [[Slavic languages|Slavic]]. On some occasions it is written in [[Cyrillic]] script. On the other hand, Brutopians seem to speak perfect, non-accented English; and other stories show English language texts being used by Brutopians.{{cn|date=March 2023}}

In 1957, Brutopia's military spending budget amounted to one trillion dollars plus all the kitchen sinks of its happy people (a number that on closer inspection turned out to be five).{{cn|date=March 2023}} [[Scrooge McDuck]] outbid the Brutopian government by paying one trillion dollars and six kitchen sinks for a sample of the recently discovered substance of [[bombastium]].{{cn|date=March 2023}}