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Maybe the government needs you to marry someone in order to secure an important alliance. Maybe you're the next link in the super-solider breeding program. Whatever the reason, the powers that be have declared that this marriage has to happen.
A subtrope of [[Arranged Marriage]]. Note that whether or not an arranged marriage qualifies
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Demon King Daimao]]'', the government gives one of their agents the duty of arranging a marriage between Junko and Akuto.
* ''[[Code Geass]] R2'': The arranged marriage between Odysseus and Chinese Empress Tianzi.
* ''[[Final Approach]]'' postulates a secret government project organized to address the declining Japanese birth rate by using a supercomputer to match up couples with the intent that they should wed and produce many, ''many'' children. Naturally, the main character gets unwillingly caught up in one of these pairings.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* The "Marriage Contract" story is an [[Fandom-Specific Plot|entire subgenre]] in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Fan Fiction]], with two basic varieties: A) Harry finds that he is bound by a contract written before his birth (sometimes ''centuries'' before) to marry J. Random Girl, and he can do nothing to get out of it; and B) After the defeat of Voldemort, sympathizers who (''still'') remain in power in the Ministry ram through a bill to force Muggle-born to marry Purebloods -- ostensibly to "save" Pureblood family lines in danger of extinction, but also (or really) to punish the winners of the war by forcing them into magically-enforced submission to undercover Death Eaters.
** There is also a subvariety of Type A in which Harry inherits a contract that is conditional -- he can choose to enact it or pass it on to later generations of Potters. In these stories, he almost always approaches the girl and her family, and gives her the option to at least see if a relationship can work out -- even if she's someone he never would have considered before.
* In the ''[[Ranma ½]]/[[Futaba-Kun Change!]]/[[Final Approach]]'' crossover ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2295957/1/Final-Approach-Ranma Final Approach Ranma]'' by "Trimatter", a government program designed to address the declining Japanese birth rate by the wholesale arrangement of marriages pairs Ranma off with Futaba Shimeru.
== [[Film]] ==
* In the movie version of ''[[Harrison Bergeron]]'', the government chooses spouses for people in order to increase the odds breeding average children.
* In the Don Knotts movie ''[[The Reluctant Astronaut]]'', the titular character has a hastily arranged marriage so he and his bride can become the first married couple on the Moon.
* Implied in ''[[THX 1138]]'' with the arranged "roommate".
* In a rabbinic ''midrash'', a Roman matron asks Rabbi Yose bar Halafta what God's been up to since He created the world in six days. He tells her that God's been making matches between people. The matron scornfully claims she can easily do the same thing, and lines up a thousand of her manservants facing a thousand of her maidservants, telling each pair they're to get married. The next day, all her servants come before her with serious injuries, each complaining about the one she matched them with. The matron admits to Rabbi Yose that arranging marriages on such a wide scale is indeed a job for God, not human beings.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In the second book of ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', the Capitol plans to do this to {{spoiler|Peeta and Katniss}}. This is later subverted in the end of the third book, where they {{spoiler|voluntarily decide to marry}}.
== [[Live
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', the Psi Corps arranges marriages between powerful telepaths in order to facilitate the breeding of even more powerful telepaths. If the people involved try to refuse, the Corps is perfectly willing to arrange rapes instead having apparently never heard of in-vitro fertilization and surrogate mothers. Or maybe they're just sadistic.
* In the pilot episode of ''[[The Starlost]]'', Devon loves Rachel, Rachel gets a Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage to Garth, Devon takes it poorly, and Devon, Rachel, and Garth end up outside their home biome with nobody married to anybody.
== [[Oral Tradition|Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends]] ==
▲* In a rabbinic ''midrash'', a Roman matron asks Rabbi Yose bar Halafta what God's been up to since He created the world in six days. He tells her that God's been making matches between people. The matron scornfully claims she can easily do the same thing, and lines up a thousand of her manservants facing a thousand of her maidservants, telling each pair they're to get married. The next day, all her servants come before her with serious injuries, each complaining about the one she matched them with. The matron admits to Rabbi Yose that arranging marriages on such a wide scale is indeed a job for God, not human beings.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Halruaa of [[Forgotten Realms]], as described in ''[[Counselors and Kings]]''. And they for most part really did believe eugenics applied to wizards will improve the situation.
* In ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', the Tau Empire has a system of arranged breeding. Couples are selected on the basis of genetic advantage and sent a summons from a "Procreation Committee" to spend a day together trying to
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Arguably, Hermia's situation in ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''. The original arrangement with Demitrius doesn't qualify, since that was arranged by her father and Theseus was just enforcing the existing law allowing an [[Arranged Marriage]]. However, once Theseus expanded his ruling to allow Hermia the option of joining a convent instead, it could be considered this trope.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':
** In the episode where the family joins the Movementarians, there's a group wedding.
{{quote|'''Marge:''' This is ridiculous, we're already married!
'''Homer:''' But Marge, we're not '''mass''' married!
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