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"ref": "2016 September 18, Vikas Datta, “The small nation which beat the superpowers, global capitalism”, in The News Minute, archived from the original on 2022-11-13",
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"text": "Demand for mangoes is such that this can be expected to double the per capita income in Borduria. Syldavia offers the metal to Borduria, but offers it only in exchange for Borduria signing a treaty for mutual defense.",
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"text": "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...",
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"ref": "2017 May 22, Utkarsh Srivastava, “A Tintin Mystery: Why Hergé's comics continue to fascinate, 88 years after their debut”, in Firstpost, archived from the original on 2022-01-29",
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"ref": "2022 September 3, Srinivas Krishnan, “The automotive adventures of Tintin”, in Mumbai Mirror, archived from the original on 2022-11-10",
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"ref": "2016 September 18, Vikas Datta, “The small nation which beat the superpowers, global capitalism”, in The News Minute, archived from the original on 2022-11-13",
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"text": "Consider two sets of death rates by age for two imaginary countries, Syldavia (S) and Borduria (B), as in Figure 15-1.",
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"ref": "2013, Michael Blake, chapter 5, in Justice and Foreign Policy, 1st edition, Oxford University Press, archived from the original on 2022-11-11, page 121",
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"ref": "2019, Michael Blake, Justice, Migration, and Mercy, Oxford University Press edition, Oxford University Press, archived from the original on 2022-11-11, page 55",
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"english": "How many could distinguish the failed Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia from the fictitious Syldavia and Borduria?",
"ref": "2017 October 11, Andrés Malamud, “El separatismo es una amenaza para la paz mundial [Separatism is a threat to world peace]”, in La Nación (Buenos Aires) [The Nation], archived from the original on 2022-11-13",
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