Borginia

Republic of Borginia
Japanese version equivalent	Borginia
National languages	Borginian* (also referred to as Borginese in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney)
Demonym	Borginian
People	Lamiroir* (unlikely to be actually be a native of Borginia) Machi Tobaye Zinc Lablanc II Akbey Hicks Cammy Meele* (not a native; only studied in the country)

The Republic of Borginia is a country in Northern Europe in the Central European Time Zone. Klavier Gavin once visited Borginia and found Lamiroir and Machi Tobaye there. Cammy Meele also spent some time studying abroad in Borginia, becoming fluent in the local language in the process.

Smuggling ring

Main article: Cohdopian smuggling ring

Borginia was one of several countries in which the Cohdopian smuggling ring operated. In one incident in particular, the Borginian Alif Red statue was stolen at Zheng Fa and replaced with a fake. An investigation of the ring by Interpol agent Akbey Hicks resulted in his death at the hand of Cammy Meele, a flight attendant at iFly Airlines and a member of the ring, though she was soon caught and arrested.

Borginian cocoon

Main article: Borginian cocoon

A replica of a Borginian cocoon.

Borginia is notable for an illegal commodity known as the Borginian cocoon. Although it cures the otherwise incurable disease incuritis, it can be used as a deadly poison as well. Consequently, this product caused chaos in the black markets. This brought in the involvement of Interpol, as well as Borginia's enactment of a law that guaranteed an immediate death sentence for cocoon smugglers. Known cocoon smugglers include Daryan Crescend and his accomplice Machi Tobaye.

Name

Some symbols used to represent spoken Borginian.

The country's name appears to have been reused from the Borginian Republic, a fictional country mentioned in Dino Crisis, another Capcom game. Shu Takumi, the main developer of the core Ace Attorney games, was also a main planner and event director for Dino Crisis, making the similarity perhaps not coincidental.

Notes

A Borginian word translated into English by Zinc Lablanc.

• Borginia, despite supposedly being located in northern Europe, seems to have more of a stereotypical Middle Eastern flavor. This theme can be seen in the clothing of Lamiroir and Zinc Lablanc, which have more of a stereotypical Middle Eastern feel than anything normally associated with Europe, while Leblanc's character theme, "Zinc Lablanc - Time is Money", sounds stereotypically Middle Eastern. Another example is the language: the games represent spoken Borginian in a written language that uses symbols of plants and animals similar to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (or, alternatively, the Wingdings font), while the written form resembles a Middle Eastern script not unlike Arabic or Hebrew, including being read from right to left.
• In Turnabout Serenade, the words "Borginian" and "Borginese" are used interchangeably when referring to the language that the Borginians use. The language is consistently called "Borginian" in Turnabout Airlines.
• In Turnabout Serenade, Machi Tobaye pronounces Apollo Justice's name as "Apollo Yoostis", similar to that of a number of European accents, including Polish, German, Swedish, and Finnish in his pronunciation of "J" to a "Y" and "U" to an "OO" sound. Incidentally, Borginia's described location seems to coincide with the real life location of Germany.
• The file used to run Gyakuten Kenji 2 contains some anti-piracy measures that detect the legitimacy of the file and attempt to impede gameplay if the file is deemed unauthorized. The game does this by converting dialogue text into the unreadable font normally reserved for Borginian and replacing organizer descriptions with Xs. The unofficial English fan patch overrides these measures.