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== [[Anime]] ==
* In ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', Garderobe is invaded midway through the series. Although it's the training ground for Otome, the elite warriors of the world, they don't have enough gathered at first, and then their abilities are cut off. The Headmistress, Natsuki, is one of only a handful to escape. She spends the next series of episodes taking refuge in nearby Aries and forming an alliance to mount a counterstrike.
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* One contingency plan in the unlikely success of a German invasion during WWII would have had the Royal Family (or at least Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret - who, famously, would not leave without their mother, who would not leave without the King, who would never leave), along with some senior British politicians, setting up a government-in-exile in Canada. Presumably members of the governments-in-exile already in London would have likewise fled to Canada or the United States.
* Liu Xie, AKA Emperor Xian the final Han Emperor, was theoretically this after fleeing the capital following the death of Dong Zhuo (who used him as a [[Puppet King]]) during the Three Kingdoms period. In practice anyone previously loyal to the Han simply smiled and nodded at his decrees until Cao Cao made him a puppet again, albeit with a [[Gilded Cage]] instead Dong Zhuo's abuse and perversion that has led to him being portrayed as a [[Complete Monster]] in every work of fiction he's been in.
* The pre-Communist government of Poland had one of the most elaborate of these ever seen. It was formed in the aftermath of the invasion of Poland by German forces in September 1939. Based in Paris, Algiers, and finally London (after the fall of France in WWII), it maintained conventional forces abroad and political advocacy groups throughout the Second World War, as well as an insurgent counterstate in Poland comparable to the Viet Cong in sophistication. When Poland became a Soviet satellite state after the war, the government-in-exile remained although largely unrecognized and without any real power. It dissolved itself in December 1990 after formally passing its responsibilities onto the post-Communist government.
 
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