Brutopia

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Brutopia is a fictional country appearing in several Donald Duck stories. It was created by Carl Barks in 1957. Brutopia is a very hostile country, aiming for world domination. It is clearly a caricature of the Soviet Union. In the Scrooge McDuck universe Brutopia occasionally attempts to steal Scrooge's money so as to devastate the American economy. According to Don Rosa, an author of many Donald and Scrooge McDuck stories, Brutopia occupies the eastern third of Siberia. The currency of Brutopia is the peso.

The language of Brutopia looks somewhat Slavic. On some occasions it is written in Cyrillic script. In 1957, their 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). 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.

According to Disney stories written and drawn in the post-Barks period, the capital of Brutopia is Brutengrad. The country is no longer a dictatorship, as the former regime was overthrown by a popular revolt, and the tyrant forced to flee. But that is just what one writer thinks.

It is also the name of a very popular microbrewery in downtown Montreal.