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Some people want to make the world a better place. They run for office and stay up late trying to help their constituents. This is not their trope.
This politician sees the world through [[Jade
Some corrupt politicians just abuse and twist the system for their own ends. Nepotism may or may not be illegal, and steering contracts to your friends ''may'' just be the result of a small pool of available contractors, and of course a member of the committee for Big Oil is going to be acquainted with Big Oil. On the other hand, some are fully criminal and allied with [[The Mafia]] or some other criminal organization. They use their insider status to steer police investigations away from their crimes and exploit loopholes, engineer loopholes, or simply get rid of the law on their behalf.
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* There's a parliamentary faction in the ''[[Prince Roger]]'' 'verse dedicated to overthrowing the Empire of Man which includes Roger's father. YMMV; our freedom fighters are your terrorists, but the series implies that the royal family are dedicated public servants and the faction are in it for personal gain.
* Politics plays a major part in the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series, so of course this trope is in force. Haven's Legislaturalists, Manticore's & Grayson's Opposition parties, and the Solarian League's bureacrats are almost exclusively split between [[Sleazy Politician|the sleazy]] and [[Corrupt Politician|the corrupt]].
** The series crowner is probably the Manticoran Progressive Party's leader Lady Elaine Descroix, who is so utterly ruthless and cynical that she makes her own corrupt Prime Minster blanch. We have to go to [[All There in the Manual|series reference materials]] to get a solid idea of what (if any) principles her party actually has, since [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids|she vocally disdains politicians who are led by them]]. {{spoiler|She embezzles money and frames her sole semi-principled ally, she doctors diplomatic correspondence to hold on to domestic power and ends up provoking a war, and she turns out to be [[The Mole]] for a nation involved in slave trade.}}
* Insofar as there ''are'' politicians in ''[[Snow Crash]]'', they're corrupt. Everyone's corrupt. [[Crapsack World|Everything's corrupt.]]
* In [[Tad Williams]]'s ''[[Otherland]]'', half the members of [[The Conspiracy|the Grail Brotherhood]] are heads of state. The rest merely ''own'' heads of state.
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