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{{quote|'''Verence I''': Remember, good sisters, the land and the king are one.

 

A house [[Environmental Symbolism|says a lot]] about the people living in it: their social and economic status, their religion and culture, their ''cleanliness''. The same can be said about a king and his kingdom. You're unlikely to find [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Moloch the Despoiler]] ruling [[Ghibli Hills|Hippity Hoppity Happy Hare Hill]], and a place like [[Mordor|the Firepits of Wrath]] is most certainly ''not'' going to be ruled by the iron-fisted Tooth Fairy (unless, of course, he's ''that'' Tooth Fairy)... though the Orcs would have had much better dental hygiene.

* Each country in ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]'' is governed by an immortal ruler chosen by a holy creature called a ''kirin''. If the ruler rules his or her kingdom effectively and with benevolence, the land prospers. If the ruler grows corrupt, the land is beset by [[The Plague|plagues]] and natural disasters. Also, the kirin sickens and dies, which, in turn, causes the ''ruler'' to sicken and die. If the ruler reforms before the death of the kirin, both can become well again - although such a thing has yet to happen in the recorded history of that world. There have, however, been instances of rulers committing suicide upon recognizing the illness of their kirin, which let them get better and be able to choose a new king - like {{spoiler|Queen Joukaku of Kei, who did that to save her land and her kirin Keiki; and king Shishou of Sai, whose death saved his kirin Sairin and let her choose his adoptive mother Chuukin as Queen.}}.

* The films of [[Hayao Miyazaki]] tend to be full of this, with "good" represented by [[Green Aesop|"natural"]].

** In ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'', after the {{spoiler|death of the Shishigami and Lady Eboshi turning over a new leaf,}} Irontown's exterior becomes covered with greenness.

** In ''[[Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea]]'', Ponyo's half-way status causes enormous floods and draws the [[Weird Moon|moon]] close to earth.

 

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== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'' featured The Dark World, a magical dimension which had become dark and corrupt when it fell under Ganon's rule. (Said land also had the ability to turn anyone who ventured ''into it'' into an animal or monster supposedly reflecting their "true nature" - a bully becomes a fanged and horned demon, and an indecisive kid becomes a bouncy pink immobile ball - Link becomes a pink anthropomorphic rabbit for some reason). In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', Zelda's castle and city become corrupted once Ganon takes control of them.n

* [[Justified Trope]] in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]''; when the evil Zant takes over Hyrule, the land becomes cloaked in perpetual twilight, because he's actually using dark magic to bring the [[Another Dimension|Twilight Realm]] to this plane. Things look pretty bad there, too, what with the sky darker than ever and the inhabitants all gone or {{spoiler|turned into the Shadow Beasts you repeatedly fight}}. Normally, it's actually pretty nice, under its rightful ruler, {{spoiler|Midna,}} the titular Twilight Princess.