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* [[David Weber]]'s ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series is based on this trope, since its pretty much the Napoleonic Wars [[Recycled in Space|in space.]] Some are blatantly obvious, such as the Star Kingdom of Manticore being Great Britain and Grayson being fairly open about the fact that its Meiji Era Japan, and the Andermani Empire is modeled in universe after the Kingdom of Prussia. Others are little vague. Much fun can be had by history buffs trying to match up the Honorverse star nation with their historical counterpart.
**"Evil Haven" is a Conservative idea of dystopia with it's revolutionary self-righteousness, secret police, atrocities, and propaganda which seems to consist of stuffing as many faux-scientific words as can be fitted into one sentence. The Solarian League is a Progressive idea of dystopia, with it's slovenly crony capitalism, lazy and brutal economic politics, and bullying by death squads. Mesa is sort of a weird combination of a Nazi like ideology with a strategy that is more like a long term insurgency.
**Grayson is also an idealized [[Flyover Country]] with it's charmingly provincial religious enthusiasm, it's naming customs that could have come from an Pioneer geneology, and it's love of such American things as baseball.
* [[David Weber]]'s later work the ''[[Safehold]]'' series is set nearly 1000 years after humanity startedhumanitystarted a Lost Colony and had the project heads disagree about how deep the [[Space Amish]] needed to go. The winners implemented a religion designed to prevent technology that would attract the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]] that destroyed the rest of humanity. The conflict over this results in a religion [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|very similar to Medieval Catholic Christianity]]. In addition, the main setting is [[The Kingdom]] of Charis, a (relatively) progressive and free-thinking island nation, with a powerful navy; it is visited by the protagonist, a cyborg copy of the executive officer of the colonists' escort fleet, who [[Gender Bender|disguises herself as a man]] named Merlin, and greatly strengthens and enriches it, including establishing something very similar to Anglicanism. There is also the Republic of Siddarmark, comparable to the Austrian Empire in function and culture, Charis is England, Emerald is Ireland, Chisholm is Sweden, Corisande is France, and Harchong is comparable to China. (It is a large feudal empire, famous for fine silk, and gunpowder was (re)-invented there.)
** at one point in the first book Charis is explicitly compared to late-Renaissance/early Industrial Revolution England or Holland.
* The continent of Osten Ard, in [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'' is closely based on Medieval Europe, even down to the languages and their names for the days of the week. Unlike most [[Fantasy]] Europes, this one actually has a Christianity parallel (and not a [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]] one, either), although the many of the Rimmersmen (Scandinavians) and Hernystiri (Celts) still worship (or at least believe in) the "old gods" in secret.
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