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This trope is sadly [[Truth in Television]], because simply replacing the leaders of a country does little to resolve its underlying social problems. And if the new government doesn't have technical expertise to actually govern, they end up repeating the same mistakes as their predecessors. See the Real Life section below for many examples.

* ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' has two fictional governments of this kind: the Committee of Public Safety (modeled exactly on the historical French dictatorship), which self-destructs spectacularly, and the restored constitutional Republic of Haven, which is mostly getting its act together but is still plagued by internal corruption.

* Terry Pratchett's ''[[Discworld]]'':

* [[George Orwell]]:

** ''[[Animal Farm]]'' was all a big allegory for how it went down in Russia. One ominous sign is at the gruesome scene of [[The Purge]], where the animals consider that this is not what they had hoped to see after the revolution, and spontaneously start to sing the old revolutionary anthem "Beasts of England," only for the official propagandist Squealer to declare "Beasts of England" abolished. By the end of the tale, the pigs have become practically indistinguishable from their former human masters.

 

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