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== Anime and Manga ==

* A mild version in [[Michiko to Hatchin]]. There are police, but they're rarely there when you need them. However, since the main character ''is'' [[Dark Action Girl|a criminal]], the law's absence may be justified.

== Board Games ==

* ''Junta'' is set in such a country, called [[Gratuitous Spanish|"La Republica de los Bananas".]]

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== Tabletop Games ==

* In ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'', the bioconservative Jovian <s>Junta</s> Republic is essentially a Banana Republic <small>[[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!]]</small>

* ''Junta'' from West End Games is set in La Republica de los Bananas. The winner is the one with the most money in their Swiss bank account when the foreign aid runs out.

* ''Junta'' from West End Games is set in [[Gratuitous Spanish|"La Republica de los Bananas"]]. The winner is the one with the most money in their Swiss bank account when the foreign aid runs out.

== Video Games ==

* The ''[[Tropico]]'' series is basically one big [[Troperiffic]] [[Banana Republic]] [[Simulation Game|simulation]], where you play the recently-installed dictator of a small country in the Caribbean. You can run it as anything from [[Video Game Caring Potential|benevolent]] to [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|hideously oppressive]]. The United Fruit Company is given extended [[Shout-Out]].

* The ''[[Tropico]]'' series is basically one big [[Troperiffic]] [[Banana Republic]] [[Simulation Game|simulation]], where you play the recently-installed dictator of a small country in the Caribbean. You can run it as anything from [[Video Game Caring Potential|benevolent]] to [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|hideously oppressive]]. The United Fruit Company is given an extended [[Shout-Out]].

** [[Older Than They Think]]: ''Dictator'', an obscure text-based ZX Spectrum game, allows you to control the people of ~~another~~ fictional republic of Ritimba... not for long~~, still~~, due to it being an [[Endless Game]] (it's impossible to please '''every layer of society''', you see). <ref>Sidenote: make sure you have got an escape plane and a couple of bodyguards before a revolution starts... they LOVE throwing revolutions at your head. Literally.</ref>

** [[Older Than They Think]]: ''Dictator'', an obscure text-based ZX Spectrum game, allows you to control the people of the fictional republic of Ritimba... but not for long, due to it being an [[Endless Game]] (it's impossible to please '''every layer of society''', you see).<ref>Sidenote: make sure you have got an escape plane and a couple of bodyguards before a revolution starts... they LOVE throwing revolutions at your head. Literally.</ref>

* The ''[[Metal Gear]]'' series has Outer Heaven in the original ''Metal Gear'' and Zanzibarland in ''Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake''. The later ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' games mostly avert this, with the exception of ''Metal Gear Solid 4'': Act 2 takes place in an unspecified country in 'South America', which [[All There in the Script|the end credits reveals to be Peru.]] But at that point of the series alternate history, it seems to fir the trope perfectly. There's also Gindra in ''Ghost Babel''. Well, Ghost Babel does take place in the same place as [[MG 1]]...

* The ''[[Just Cause (video game)|Just Cause]]'' series lets you loose as a [[Crazy Awesome]] CIA agent tasked with overthrowing a junta on two fictional island nations (San Esperito in the first game and in the second, the more unusual, South Asian-style dictatorship of Panau).

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== Real Life ==

* Colombia during the 20th century. The United Fruit Company had a lot of power in the government, which allowed them to exploit the workers without any consequences. This incited a number of protests that led to the "Masacre de las Bananeras," in 1928 in which the Colombian army shot the protesters by the order of the government under the influence of both the United Fruit Company and the US government, who threatened to invade if the Colombian government ~~doesn~~'t protect the company's interest.

* Colombia during the 20th century. The United Fruit Company had a lot of power in the government, which allowed them to exploit the workers without any consequences. This incited a number of protests that led to the "Masacre de las Bananeras," in 1928 in which the Colombian army shot the protesters by the order of the government under the influence of both the United Fruit Company and the US government, who threatened to invade if the Colombian government didn't protect the company's interest.

* [[wikipedia:Republic of Molossia|The Democratic Republic of Molossia]] has been described by its "president" as a banana republic. It's actually just two plots of land owned by Nevada resident Kevin Baugh. That didn't stop it from getting [[Kickassia|invaded]] by [[Channel Awesome]].

* The [[Dominican Republic]] under Trujillo and [[Chile]] during Pinochet's rule. Also Honduras, Brazil, Argentina, and so on, especially during (and due to) the Cold War. [http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/latinamericandictators/Dictators_in_Latin_American_History.htm But there were many more].