Editing Donald Duck universe (section)

== Fictional locations ==

===Duckburg===
'''Duckburg''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|ʌ|k|b|ɝ|ɡ}}<ref>{{YouTube|frGLMtGsotc|Ducktales Intro}}</ref> is the [[fictional city]], located in the fictional [[U.S. state]] of [[Donald Duck universe#Calisota|Calisota]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+OS++422-02&redirected=1|title=The Gilded Man|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-03-10|archive-date=April 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409064745/https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+OS++422-02&redirected=1|url-status=dead}}</ref> that serves as the home of [[Donald Duck]], [[Scrooge McDuck]], [[Huey, Dewey, and Louie]], [[Daisy Duck]] and most of their supporting cast. Duckburg was first mentioned in ''[[Walt Disney's Comics and Stories]]'' #49 in 1944, and was created by [[Carl Barks]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seriesam.com/barks/comicswdc031.html#ccus_wdc0049-02|title=A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe: W WDC 49-02 tight-wire walkers|access-date=7 February 2011}}</ref>

The city is populated by various [[anthropomorphism|anthropomorphized]] animals, with dogs, different birds (including [[duck]]s, [[Goose|geese]] and [[chicken]]s) and pigs as the most dominant ones. The [[mayor]] of the city is often depicted as a pig, whose name most of the time goes unmentioned and is referred instead by readers{{clarify|date=July 2018}} as the [[List of Donald Duck universe characters#Pig Mayor|Pig Mayor]]. However, in some stories the office of mayor is held by various dog characters.

The size and [[Urban structure|structure]] of Duckburg varied in the works by Barks: it was adjusted to better fit the story he wanted to tell; it could vary from a small town to a medium-sized city, to a bustling [[metropolis]]. Later writers and artists adhere to this tradition recurrently. In one specific story by Barks, ''Monsterville'' (1961), Duckburg was even transformed into a futuristic city by [[Gyro Gearloose]], however it proved that the citizens were not ready for the high level of technology that the new city provided. Thus the city was turned back to its old city structure.

In comic writer [[Don Rosa]]'s stories, Duckburg and the state of Calisota is located on the [[West Coast of the United States]], though Carl Barks himself and other writers often leave the city's location more vaguely defined. However, in [[Don Rosa]]'s ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', the author alludes to where exactly he has situated Duckburg: "I won't bother to say precisely where I situated Duckburg and Calisota on America's west coast… but if you get out a good map and compare the coastline, you'll see that I stuck the old gold-prospector's adopted hometown directly across the bay from a very appropriately named actual city." Knowing how Don Rosa used gags, it is likely that this city would be [[Eureka, California]] (''[[Eureka (word)|Eureka]]'' meaning 'I found it'!). This fits with the river and a large forest south of Eureka.<ref name="DB1">{{cite web|url=http://duckman.pettho.com/history/chapter0.html |title=Welcome to Duckburg! |access-date=2011-04-11 |last=Grøsfjeld, Jr. |first=Sigvald |publisher=The D.U.C.K.man |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607083448/http://duckman.pettho.com/history/chapter0.html |archive-date=2011-06-07 }}</ref> In the [[DuckTales (1987 TV series)|DuckTales]] episode "Double O' Duck", a map is shown which shows Duckburg as being located somewhere in Virginia or North Carolina.

There are no references to the governor, legislature, Capitol, etc., of Calisota in any of the many stories about Duckburg. However, Duckburg seems to have its own governor, if it is not a sort of [[city-state]]. In more than one story a "Duckburg embassy" has been shown, which would place it outside the US at a diplomatic level. In the story ''Treasure of Marco Polo'' (Uncle Scrooge #64, 1966) by Carl Barks, the Duckburg embassy displays a flag of Duckburg, which consists of a white duck over a green field. However, in the Don Rosa story "[[His Majesty, McDuck]]" (Uncle Scrooge Adventures #14, Gladstone Aug. 1989) Scrooge gains a short-lived independence from the United States for Killmotor Hill, thus placing Duckburg within the [[United States]].

The most prominent landmark in Duckburg is Scrooge McDuck's [[money bin|Money Bin]], a giant building sitting on Killmotor Hill (formerly known as Killmule Hill) in the center of town. The money bin contains both office space, Scrooge's private living quarters and, most famously, three cubic acres of money, the results of Scrooge's lifetime of business and treasure-seeking adventures. Another major landmark in some stories is a large [[statue]] of Duckburg's founder, [[Cornelius Coot]].<ref name="MB">{{cite web|url=http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/scrooge.html |title=Scrooge McDuck |access-date=2011-04-11 |last=Grøsfjeld jr. |first=Sigvald |publisher=The D.U.C.K.man |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317021400/http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/scrooge.html |archive-date=2011-03-17 }}</ref>

Duckburg is a major center for [[Space exploration]], mainly operated and overseen by [[Gyro Gearloose]], and has had expeditions to the [[Moon]], [[Mars]], [[Venus]], the [[Asteroids]], and more remote parts of the [[Galaxy]]. The city also features a sea port and is in proximity of a large forest called the Black Forest and to several [[mountain]]s, the most notable being "Old Demon Tooth", usually depicted as a towering pointed peak leaning slightly to the side.<ref name="DB1" /> The main river of the city is the Tulebug River, first mentioned in ''The Money Well'' (1958) by Carl Barks, and it is located near Killmotor Hill.

Duckburg is home to Yarvard University (a play on the universities of [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and [[Yale University|Yale]]), an institution more notable for its athletic teams than for its academic achievements.<ref name="DB1" /> It also has had international students, like the [[bey]] of El Dagga from [[Egypt]], who is mentioned in Yarvard's first appearance; ''[[Donald Duck and the Mummy's Ring]]'' by Carl Barks from 1943. One of the things the bey learned at the university was that [[Mummy|mummies]] do not eat.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+OS+++29-01&redirected=1|title=The Mummy's Ring|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-03-10}}</ref> Duckburg is also the home of the Billionaires Club of some of which Scrooge McDuck, [[John D. Rockerduck]] and, according to some stories, [[Flintheart Glomgold]] are influential members. Duckburg also has a [[The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company|Ritz Hotel]], first mentioned in Carl Barks' story ''Turkey with All the Schemings'' (Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #148, 1953) at which Scrooge McDuck had a business meeting with Donald Duck; who was disguised as the Duke of Baloni, the World's Second-Richest Duck at that time. In the same story Scrooge later buys the Ritz Hotel and he still owns it in Don Rosa's story ''Attaaaaaack!'' (2000).

Located near Duckburg is a [[farm]] owned and run by [[Elvira Coot|Grandma Duck]], a direct descendant of [[Cornelius Coot]] and Donald's paternal [[grandmother]].<ref name='DB1' /> Donald's cousin [[Gus Goose]] also lives on Grandma's farm as a farmhand. The farm is often a gathering site for various Duck family holiday celebrations.<ref name='GC'>{{cite web|url=http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/grandma.html |title=Grandma Duck |access-date=2011-04-11 |last=Grøsfjeld jr. |first=Sigvald |publisher=The D.U.C.K.man |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514100810/http://duckman.pettho.com/characters/grandma.html |archive-date=2011-05-14 }}</ref>

In other languages, Duckburg (for example ''Duckstad'' in Dutch, ''Entenhausen'' in German, ''Ankeborg'' in Swedish, ''Rațburg'' in Romanian, ''Andeby'' in Danish, or ''Patópolis'' in both European and Brazilian Portuguese) is not only home of "the Ducks", but Mickey Mouse and friends live there too. This has occasionally been implied also in English-language publications, as when [[Super Goof]] is referred to as "Duckburg's greatest hero" in a poster seen in the initial panel of the 1973 story ''Galactic Gourmet'' (''Super Goof'' #27, [[Gold Key Comics]]). The story moreover pits Super Goof against the Beagle Boys, normally portrayed as living and operating in Duckburg.

====History====
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| footer = The unofficial Calisota map shown on the left indicates the location of Duckburg. The map resembles a map of Northern California (right), with Duckburg corresponding to a coastal area in [[Humboldt County, California|Humboldt County]] near the city of [[Eureka, California|Eureka]], located on [[Humboldt Bay]], California.<ref name = "Rosa">[[Don Rosa]], On The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Gemstone Publishing, 2005, {{ISBN|0911903968}}</ref>
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In the comics by Don Rosa, Duckburg was a fort built on Killmule Hill on June 17, 1579, by [[United Kingdom|British]] explorer [[Sir Francis Drake]] in the area he named ''[[New Albion|Nova Albion]]'', in what would later become the state of Calisota. It was originally known as "Fort Drakeborough". In the year 1818, during the [[History of California before 1900#Spanish colonization and governance (1697–1821)|Spanish colonization of California]] (1697–1821), the fort had been handed over by its departing British occupants to the visiting [[Hunting|hunter]] and [[fur trade]]r [[Cornelius Coot]], who Americanized the British name of the fort to "Fort Duckburg". "Drake" means a male duck, while "borough" and "burg" are [[synonyms]]. Cornelius Coot turned the old fort into a [[trading post]] for fellow traders and hunters, and their families. Eventually a small town grew around the fort on top of Killmule Hill. In Carl Barks' story ''The Day Duckburg Got Dyed'' (1957), it is revealed that Cornelius Coot at some point in Duckburg's history managed to pipe mountain water into the town. During the [[American Civil War]], a decisive battle was fought on top of an unnamed hill in Duckburg, led by the Duckburgian General Stonewall Duck.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+239-01|title=The Village Blacksmith|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-03-11}}</ref> It is not known on which side the city fought, but with General Stonewall Duck being based on the real-life [[Stonewall Jackson]], it can be assumed they fought for the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]]. However, the real-life state of California, in which the fictional state of Calisota is located according to Don Rosa, was a Unionist state, making Duckburg a more likely member of the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]].

Duckburg remained a quiet, small town until the arrival of wealthy businessman Scrooge McDuck. He had bought the old fort and the hill from fellow [[Prospecting|prospector]] [[Casey Coot]], a descendant of Cornelius Coot, during the [[Klondike Gold Rush]] in 1899.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=AR+113&redirected=1|title=Last sled to Dawson|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-03-10}}</ref> Scrooge proceeded to construct his famous [[Money Bin]] on the location, which would eventually cause McDuck an incredible variety of problems and dilemmas. The first one was caused by the [[Junior Woodchucks]], who were squatting in the site and using the old fort as their headquarters, even though they did not have legal title to it. The dispute led to a small war in 1902, involving the United States [[United States Marine Corps|marines]] and [[United States Navy|navy]], led by then [[President of the United States|President]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://duckman.pettho.com/history/chapter3.html |title=The Lives and Times in Duckburg |access-date=2011-04-11 |last=Grøsfjeld, Jr. |first=Sigvald |work=The D.U.C.K.man |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607080630/http://duckman.pettho.com/history/chapter3.html |archive-date=2011-06-07 }}</ref> Eventually however, the construction of the Money Bin, and Scrooge's establishment of various businesses in and around Duckburg, caused Duckburg's population to swell, and turned the small town into a bustling city and a global [[financial centre]] within a few decades.<ref name="LTSM" />

===Calisota===
Calisota {{IPAc-en|ˌ|k|æ|l|ᵻ|ˈ|s|oʊ|t|ə}}<ref group="note">The pronunciation is derived from the blending of those of "[[California]]" and "[[Minnesota]]".</ref> is a fictional U.S. state, created by [[Carl Barks]] in his story ''[[The Gilded Man (comics)|The Gilded Man]]'' (''[[Disney comics#Four Color|Four Color]]'' #422). Duckburg is among the cities located there, as well as Goosetown,<ref>"Boxing Donald," ''[[Uncle Scrooge]]'' 367 (2007)</ref> a traditional rival of Duckburg, and [[Mouseton]].<ref>"Back From the Brink", ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'' 661 (2005); "The World to Come Part 1: The Numbers Crunch", ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'' 703 (2010).</ref>

[[File:Calisota location.png|thumb|The location of Calisota as suggested by [[Don Rosa]]]]
Although it has many fictional elements and a variable climate, Calisota is probably synonymous with [[Jefferson (proposed Pacific state)|Jefferson]], being roughly equivalent to [[Northern California]]. Duckburg is located north of [[San Francisco]], with a map in [[Don Rosa]]'s ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'' showing Calisota corresponding to the part of California north of the 39th parallel.<ref name = "Rosa" />

The name is a [[Blend word|blend]] of ''[[California]]'' and ''[[Minnesota]]'', supposedly to allow all kinds of weather or climate in the stories, although Calisota has very little in common with the latter (a state in the [[Upper Midwest]], far from the ocean) and Northern California's regional weather is variable enough by itself.

===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}}

===Money Bin===
The '''Money Bin''' is the building where [[Scrooge McDuck]] stores the portions of his money he earned by himself. Carl Barks invented the "money swim" in his story ''[[A Financial Fable]]'' (1950), followed by the "Money Bin" in the story ''Terror of the Beagle Boys'' (1951).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barks |first=Carl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YM0koT-ENLsC&dq=%22money+bin%22+Scrooge&pg=PR38 |title=Carl Barks: Conversations |date=2003 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-57806-501-1 |pages=xxxviii |language=en}}</ref> In Barks' earlier stories, interchangeably with the name Money Bin, the building's official name was the '''McDuck Building''', which was only used on [[facade]] signs. Eventually however, the name was discontinued in the later stories by Barks and subsequent writers and artists.

While the first stories showing the Bin treated it as if it had just been built, later continuity established that Scrooge had built the Money Bin in 1902 after having traveled around the world to make his fortune, mostly through prospecting and the establishment of various businesses. Scrooge's favorite [[pastime]] is to dive off a [[springboard]] into his money and swim through it. In most comic books stories, Scrooge lives at the Money Bin in his private quarters on the top floor, with the rooms often filled with large amounts of money. Because of Scrooge's [[frugality]] he has at times even made his own furniture and architecture out of his money; like using moneybags as chairs or using stacked paper bills as stairs to reach high places. The Money Bin also has a worry room in which Scrooge paces around in circles, which has caused a circular depression in the floor, to worry and ponder about hardships that has befallen him. The worry room was first mentioned in Carl Barks' story ''[[The Secret of Atlantis]]'' (''[[Uncle Scrooge]]'' #5, 1954).

The traditional location of the Money Bin is on top of Killmotor Hill which in turn lies atop a [[fault line]] which would prove catastrophic in the event of an [[earthquake]], and this earthquake occurred in the story ''[[Land Beneath the Ground!]]'' (1956) by Carl Barks.

The Money Bin is the victim of repeated assaults by Scrooge's enemies who try to steal his money, such as the [[Beagle Boys]], who are after the bulk of Scrooge's money, and [[Magica DeSpell]], who is after Scrooge's "[[Number One Dime]]", the first [[Dime (United States coin)|dime]] Scrooge ever earned. To protect against these attempted break-ins, Scrooge has installed the greatest [[security system]] in the world, which includes [[Gizmoduck]] in the ''DuckTales'' TV-Series, to thwart any thought of even trying to intrude onto the premises.

Barks defined the volume of money contained inside as "three cubic acres", but the exact meaning of a "cubic acre" left to the reader to interpret, since an [[acre]] is a measure of [[area]], not [[length]]. Taken literally, a [[cube (algebra)|cubic]] acre would be a 6-[[dimension]]al space of 82,653,950,016,000&nbsp;ft<sup>6</sup>, i.e. feet to the sixth power. Taken as an acre that is raised to a cube with each side an acre, it would be around 9 091 379&nbsp;ft<sup>3</sup>. A series of blueprints created for the Scrooge McDuck story "[[The Beagle Boys vs. the Money Bin]]" by [[Don Rosa]] state that the Money Bin is approximately {{convert|127|ft|m}} tall, and {{convert|120|ft|m}} wide. In the story, said blueprints are accredited to an architect named Frank Lloyd Drake, who is based on the real-life architect [[Frank Lloyd Wright]].

The Money Bin also contains various valuable artifacts like the [[Golden Fleece]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++12-02|title=The Golden Fleecing|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-04-02|archive-date=November 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105022445/http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++12-02|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Crown of [[Genghis Khan]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++14-02&redirected=1|title=The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan!|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-04-02}}</ref> the Crown of the [[Maya peoples|Mayas]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++44-01|title=Crown of the Mayas|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-04-02}}</ref> the Candy-Striped Ruby<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++41-02&redirected=1|title=The Status Seeker|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-04-02}}</ref> and the Goose Egg Nugget.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+OS++456-02&redirected=1|title=Back to the Klondike|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-04-02}}</ref> According to Carl Barks' story ''[[The Fabulous Philosopher's Stone]]'' (Uncle Scrooge #10, 1955) Scrooge also owned the [[Philosopher's Stone]] at one point, but it was later confiscated by the International Money Council as it could devastate the economy because of its capability to turn base metals into gold.

The [[Danish language|Danish]] and [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] names for "the Money Bin" are ''Pengetanken'' and ''Pengebingen'', respectively, and these have become a regular word in these languages for a large amount of money or cash.<ref>[http://www.nrk.no/programmer/radioarkiv/sann_er_livet/2706708.html Vår tids eventyr] ("Our time's adventure") nrk.no May 6, 2003 {{in lang|no}}</ref>

Russell W. Belk mentions the Money Bin in ''Material Values in the Comics: A Content Analysis of Comic Books Featuring Themes of Wealth'', where he remarks that Scrooge's "childish fascination with money", where he takes pleasure in diving and swimming in the Money Bin, might account for Scrooge not being portrayed as a villain.<ref>The Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 14, No. 1. (Jun., 1987), pp. 26-42.</ref> Penelope Fritzer in the article ''Scrooge McDuck: Postmodern Robber Baron'' considers it possible for the Money Bin to symbolize the entire Disney empire.<ref>The Journal for the Liberal Art and Sciences, Scrooge McDuck: Postmodern Robber Baron, Penelope Fritzer, Florida Atlantic University</ref>

The Money Bin in the [[DuckTales (2017 TV series)|''DuckTales'' 2017 reboot]] is given a total redesign. Here it is depicted as a large tower situated on an island in the waters near Duckburg, connected to the city via a bridge, and visible directly from Scrooge's bedroom window. It is perceived as a costly architectural fancy by Scrooge's board of directors, though Scrooge candidly claimed its deranged staff being let go would cause a larger danger. Aside from storing his money, this incarnation of the Money Bin (somewhat emptier due to Scrooge's costly search for the lost [[Della Duck]]) also serves as the corporate headquarters of McDuck Industries and the location of Gyro Gearloose's lab.

===Glomgold's bin===
[[Flintheart Glomgold]] also owns a money bin, located near [[Limpopo]] Valley in [[South Africa]]. Glomgold's bin substitutes the dollar sign ([[Dollar sign|$]]) that appears on Scrooge's with a pound sign ([[Pound sign|£]]),<ref name='SRD'>[[The Second-Richest Duck]] comic by Carl Barks, February 2, 1956</ref> as the [[South African pound]] was the currency of South Africa until 1961. The preference for the pound sign can also be explained by Glomgold's heritage, which puts him as a citizen of South Africa with British blood, whereas Scrooge embraced America despite his pure Scottish blood.

===Millionaires' club===
The Millionaires' club (sometimes called the Billionaires' club) is a prominent [[gentlemen's club]] in Duckburg, with its premises located in a stately mansion. The club first appeared in the 1959 story ''The Christmas Cha Cha'', written by [[Bob Gregory (comics)|Bob Gregory]] and drawn by [[Carl Barks]]. Membership of the club is exclusive, with the minimum requirement being owning at least a million dollars.

Scrooge McDuck, Flintheart Glomgold and John Rockerduck are all members of the club, along with several other millionaires. Although Scrooge is clearly the wealthiest man in Duckburg, he is not the speaker of the club nor holds any special position above the other members. A repeating scene is Scrooge arriving at the club to catch up on the daily [[newspaper]]s, as he is too stingy to buy copies himself. His favourite refreshment at the club is plain [[tap water]] as it is the cheapest the club has to offer. Whenever Scrooge meets his rival Rockerduck at the club, the two end up in an argument.

The speaker of the club often holds contests requiring spending excessive amounts of money and displaying a flamboyant millionaire lifestyle. Although Scrooge hates these contents because of the excessive spending, he is always forced to take part, in order to maintain his membership and status in the club.