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* A number of Russian sci-fi novels portray future Russia as a restored monarchy with prosperous economy. Despite being a monarchy, civil rights are still enforced. This likely stems from the idea that Russian people need a single strong ruler who gets things done and doesn't get bogged down with politics and bureaucracy. The same novels will often portray the US as an [[The Empire|empire]] and/or a [[Wretched Hive]], which may or may not be caused by another civil war.
* In the ''[[Carrera's Legions|Carreras Legions]]'' series, the UN, after becoming a true world government for Earth, has over the centuries become this, with hereditary positions and a rather explicit caste system.
* Theodore Judson's novel ''The Martian General's Daughter'' takes place in the late 23. century on an Earth with a massively changed socio-political landscape. The main superpower is the [[Awesome McCoolname|Pan-polarian Empire]], [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|which spans most of the northern hemisphere]]. The empire's society and political philosophy is modelled after many previous eras of history, including the Roman and Greek empires of Antiquity and 18th and 19th century monarchies. Similarly to the writer's previous but unrelated novel, ''[[Fitzpatrick's War]]'', the novel mixes high sci-fi technology with a deliberately [[
* The atevi in the ''[[Foreigner (novel)|Foreigner]]'' series have a social structure whose closest Earth analogue is feudalism. This is due the the alien psychology of the atevi, making it pretty much impossible for them to have a social structure which isn't feudal-like. The [[Lost Colony]] of humans living on their planet still have a democracy.
* While the post-apocalyptic United States in ''[[Julian Comstock]]'' is still nominally a democratic republic, in practice it's government is morphed virtually beyond recognition into a blend of neo-feudalism and serfdom. Though the re-emergence of an industrial working class is beginning to challenge said serfdom.
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