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* Simon Templar, in Leslie Charteris' original novella "The Wonderful War", helped overthrow the corrupt government of the Republic of Pasala, which was actually a Oil Republic. In the TV series, the episode of the same title changed the setting to a [[Qurac]].
* In Latin America there's a whole style of books dealing with this. They're called "dictator novel" and, like the name implies, they tend to focus more on the man with the power rather than the country itself.
* ''Don Quixote, U.S.A.'' by Richard Powell was a partial source of the story for ''[[Bananas]]''. The [[Accidental Hero]], though, was a Peace Corps agronomist who believed San Marco could become less impoverished by developing a banana industry. Then he {{Spoiler|'''accidentally''' took over the revolution from its [[Identical Stranger]] leader, '''accidentally''' led it to victory, and years later is still "El Presidente" of}} a prosperous small nation which {{spoiler|no longer really fits the Banana Republic description}} aside from its geographic location. Speaking of his original attitudes, he remarks, "[[That Man Is Dead|He was a fine young man and I miss him]], but, Name of God, he was certainly stupid."
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