The looming sense of EU technocracy is ever present - I guess the kind of person to take offence at a cheeky marmot is probably going to be a perfect drone beurocrat. Although we do have to ask ourselves as a society, if we live in a world were a cartographer can't sneak in a little drawing, is it a world worth living?
I think what we need to do is fund an exhibition into the swiss alps to reconstute the terrain in the shape of a funny little marmot.
To be fair, the Swiss are not in the EU, but they do have a curious relationship with it as a landlocked enclave. (Much like Andorra, San Marino, and the Vatican.)
I see your pedantry and I raise you a freshly minted tellurium high pedant coin: it's a bit weird to call the NI border a "real border" given it's completely soft and part of the CTA. Q.E.D :)
I think what we need to do is fund an exhibition into the swiss alps to reconstute the terrain in the shape of a funny little marmot.