Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage: Difference between revisions

A subtrope of [[Arranged Marriage]]. Note that whether or not an arranged marriage qualifies for this subtrope depends on who is arranging the marriage and the relationship between the arranger and the people getting married. The person arranging the marriage needs to be an impersonal force, not a close relative. If the King is ordering the marriage of two of his subjects, that may be this trope; if he's ordering the marriage of his daughter the Princess, it isn't. Also note that this can overlap with [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage]]: sometimes, the bureaucracy's computer is pretty good at pairing compatible people.

 

 

== [[Anime]] ==

** Though, in this case, some mention is made of how couples are arranged so that the people involved complement each other and work well together, though it's still loveless.

* All marriages in the Delirium Series are arranged by the government.

* In [[Plato]]'s ''Laws'', this is what happens when they have a fatherless heiress. They even admit:

{{quote| And if a man dying by some unexpected fate leaves daughters behind him, let him pardon the legislator if he gives them in marriage, he have a regard only to two out of three conditions - nearness of kin and the preservation of the lot, and omits the third condition, which a father would naturally consider, for he would choose out of all the citizens a son for himself, and a husband for his daughter, with a view to his character and disposition - the father, say, shall forgive the legislator if he disregards this, which to him is an impossible consideration. }}