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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Battle Royale|Battle Royale 2]]'', many references are made to "that country" and "that country"'s willingness to bomb the hell out of any problems it faces.
* ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]'': While the President's face was never shown, nor his name ever given, during the scenes on Air Force One in the first film, his accent is clearly meant to be that of George W. Bush. The trope is averted in the sequel, in which President Obama is mentioned by name and his staff is villainized.
 
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Jack Ryan (Literature)|Jack Ryan]]:
** In Clancy's early novels, ostensibly set during the Reagan years, the president is referred to only as "The President". His background (a lawyer) is different to that of Reagan though. Later novels introduce a string of fictional presidents, including one who appears to be a [[Strawman Political|strawman liberal]] interpretation of Bill Clinton. Saddam Hussein and Indira Gandhi are likewise referred to only as "The president of Iraq" and "The prime minister of India".
** Taken to its extreme in ''Patriot Games'', wherein Prince Charles appears as a major character and even assists Jack Ryan in a gunfight against the IRA; throughout the novel, he is referred to only as "the Prince of Wales".
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** The Timeline 191 books are pretty bad when it comes to this trope thanks to Turtledove's de-emphasis on geopolitics. Except for a few mentions of Churchill, leaders of countries other than the USA and CSA are only referred to by title ("the Kaiser", "the Czar", etc.).
*** Actually, most of these character's names are spoken at least a few times. "The Kaiser" is used in a ton of speeches, but when only one man on the planet has that particular title, it's just easier to refer to him in that way. US and CS leaders both have the title of President, so if you wanted to refer to Jake Featherston (Confederate Hitler) instead of Al Smith (US Neville Chamberlain) you had to use both name and title.
* Exception: [[Robert Ludlum]] used real life terrorist mastermind Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, a.k.a. "Carlos the Jackal", as the [[Big Bad]] in his [[The Bourne Series (Literaturenovel)|Jason Bourne novels]], and even killed him off at the end of ''The Bourne Ultimatum''. (In real life, Carlos faded into obscurity and was eventually captured in 1994.)
* Another aversion: Stephen Coonts's 1990 thriller ''Under Siege'' (not to be confused with the Steven Seagal movies) featured an assassination attempt on George Bush, with V.P. Dan Quayle forced to assume the acting presidency. Notable for incorporating real political figures while they were in office--and for making the book extremely dated as a result.
* ''The Prime Minister's Brain'' by Gillian Cross is one of many British stories from the 1980s that referred to "the Prime Minister" but [[Pronoun Trouble|notably avoided mentioning said character's sex.]]
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In season 2 of ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'', "three Middle Eastern countries" are accused of complicity in an attempted nuclear attack on the US. [[Silent Hunter]] guesses that one of them is Saudi Arabia. Given that the "smoking gun" for their complicity is a recording from a meeting in Cyprus, Turkey is probably one of the three as well.
** Again in Season 5, where "Central Asia" becomes a euphemism for Chechnya.
** In Season 6, Fayed's home country. (Obviously Lebanon, based on maps shown on-screen.). It is painfully referred to dozens of times as "his country", "the country" etc
** In ''24: Redemption'', the fictional African nation of Sangala is apparently a stand-in for Sudan.
** And the IRK is an obvious stand-in for the Islamic Republic of Iran, right down to the controversial nuclear program.
* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' "The Christmas Invasion", Harriet Jones, Prime Minister ([[Catch Phrase|Yes, we know who you are]]) refers to "the President" and then makes an Iraq War comment:
{{quote| "Use these exact words - 'He is not my boss and he is certainly not turning this into a war'."}}
** Which becomes somewhat ironic when her course of action in the end is to wait until the aliens have surrendered to the Doctor and then kill them all as they leave. [[Exact Words|Well, a war it wasn't, anyway.]]
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* In "Dead and Buried", an episode of ''[[The Bill]]'' (a show that usually names countries), the plot involves a diplomat from an unnamed Eastern European country. It also has a character mislocate Prague as Western Europe ("Central Europe" is the more accurate term).
* Japanese Live-action: The president of the US (only seen from the back, with Asian skin tone, a blond dye job, and [[Engrish]]) is comically a fan of maid cafes in ''Maid in Akihabara''.
* ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'' had two sitting Presidents over its ten year run. The first was never shown or mentioned by name, but a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Martouf/Lantash tries to kill a decoy that looked like then-President Bill Clinton. The second was the entirely fictional Henry Hayes, with equally fictional antagonist Robert Kinsey as Vice President. Kinsey is forced to resign at the end of the seventh season, but his replacement is never mentioned or shown. Mitchell does make a quip about a "Vice Presidential duck hunt" in the tenth season, suggesting Kinsey was replaced by then-Vice President Dick Cheney.
* The ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' episode "The Tyrant" guest-starred James Earl Jones as the dictator of a fictional African country. He's clearly a stand-in for Idi Amin.
 
== [[Truth in Television]] ==
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