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The area was set up as a republic in 1864 by a Scotsman Alexander McCorkindale who called it New Scotland and its capital Roburnia was established in 1881 , named after the Scottish poet Robert Burns . In 1882 Roburnia was renamed after Amsterdam in the Netherlands .