The Yellow Empire is the primary antagonist in The Secret of the Swordfish trilogy (the first books in the Blake and Mortimer series of graphic novels). It is a totalitarian superpower ruled by Emperor Basam Damdu; its capital is Lhasa and while its original territory is never defined, it rules over the entire world before its downfall.
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“He’s made a harp of her breast-bane,
Whose sound wad melt a heart of stane.
He’s ta’en three locks o’ her yellow hair,
And wi’ them strung his harp sae rare.”
—Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 41–44)
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Consider the Empire and Gandhi.”
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