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Line 1: {{trope}} {{page should be category}} We have met the [[Government Conspiracy]], and it is us! The main characters ''are'' [[The Government]] (or at least the head of it) - in [[The White House]], [[Whitehall]], the Governor's mansion, or elsewhere. Variations range from [[~~Sit Com~~Sitcom]] to [[Prime Time Soap]] with political trappings to heavy political drama [[Ripped ~~From~~from the Headlines]]. {{examples\|Examples}}▼ ▲{{examples~~\|Examples~~}} == Comic Books == * ''[[Ex Machina]]'' * ''[[~~Quaid Orsay (Comic Book)\|~~Quai d'Orsay]]'' == Film == Line 11 ⟶ 12: == Literature == * To a degree, ''[[~~Discworld~~Going Postal (~~Literature~~Discworld)~~/Going Postal~~\|Going Postal]]'', and even more so ''[[~~Discworld (Literature)/Making Money\|~~Making Money]]''. * ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' deals a lot with government activities including the party politics of various states as well as diplomatic and military affairs. * ''[[Hunt for Red October]]'' and its sequels are mostly thrillers, centered around the security departments like the military, diplomatic, and intelligence (that is there is little about the National Endowment for the Arts but much about the Navy). But they are technically about the government, and if a specialized part of it, what many consider the [[Your Mileage May Vary\|primary part.]] * ''[[The Vorkosigan Saga]]'' has such things involved as favor trading for pet projects, succession crises', etc. == Live Action TV == * ''[[Babylon ~~Five~~5]]'' in its first season, before the big fantasy-influenced plot arcs got going. * The (usually) less violent parts of ''[[Battlestar Galactica ~~Reimagined]]~~(2004 TV series)\|the reimagined ''Battlestar Galactica'']]. * ''[[~~Benson (TV)\|~~Benson]]'' * ''[[~~Borgen (TV)\|~~Borgen]]'' * ''[[Commander in Chief]]'' * ''[[Da Vincis City Hall]]'' * ''[[Grass Roots]]'' * ''[[~~The Hollowmen (TV)\|~~The Hollowmen]]'' * ''[[House of Cards (British series)]]'' * ''[[House Rules]]'' * ''[[Kings]]'', centered around a fictional [[Deadly Decadent Court]] in a modern setting. * ''[[~~The New Statesman (TV)\|~~The New Statesman]]'' * ''[[No Job For A Lady]]'' * ''[[~~Parks and Recreation (TV)\|~~Parks and Recreation]]''~~--An~~—An odd one in that it focuses on small-town local government, with a bureaucrat as the central ~~character--albeit~~character—albeit a bureaucrat who is now a member of the City Council. * ''[[~~Spin City (TV)\|~~Spin City]]'' * ''[[~~The Thick of It (TV)\|~~The Thick of It]]'' * ''[[~~Veep (TV)\|~~Veep]]'' * ''[[~~The West Wing (TV)\|~~The West Wing]]'' * ''[[The Wire]]'' (Partially) * ''[[~~Yes Minister (TV)\|~~Yes Minister]]'' ** ''[[Yes Prime Minister]]'' {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Show Genres~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Fiction]] ▲[[Category:Show Genres]] [[Category:Politics Tropes]] [[Category:~~Government~~Show ~~Procedural~~Genres]] ~~[[Category:Trope]]~~