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Counterpart to [[La Résistance]]. Their homeland has been invaded. They fought valiantly, but they were ultimately overwhelmed. But they refuse to admit defeat quite yet. They know that they have allies abroad, and it's only a matter of time before they can muster the support to fight back. So for today, the leadership of the nation and whatever citizenry they can bring along make a hasty retreat, taking refuge in a nearby allied nation. While much of their citizens are left behind, possibly forming [[La Résistance]] and waging a war from within, they work to muster up support and mount a counterattack from outside to reclaim their homeland.
Frequent any time [[
If the monarch refused to leave [[In Its Hour of Need]], this may be led by a successor. If only the armed forces are still fighting on, with their government having capitulated or otherwise done away with, then it is [[The Remnant]].
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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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== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* In the novel ''SS-GB'', England is conquered by Nazi Germany. King George VI is held prisoner. By the end of the novel, {{spoiler|George is killed and his daughter in Canada, Elizabeth II, became Queen. One of the reasons why British [[La Résistance]] members arrange his death is so Elizabeth can be a legitimate
* [[
* The last book in ''[[The Westmark Trilogy]]'' has the protagonists form a
* In the Yashim series, the heroes best friend is a Polish diplomat who is harbored by the Ottoman government as a [[Take That]] to Russia. The Polish diplomat is a one-man
* In the later ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The Colonial Government in [[Battlestar Galactica]] can be seen as this. They even keep the trappings of their government for quite some time.
* [[Babylon
* The Targaryens in [[Game of Thrones]] think of themselves as this. They are under the impression that [[Medieval Morons|the common folk]] pray desperately for their return, and that the current king is seen as [[The Usurper|an evil usurper]]. Whilst (technically speaking) they have a point about Robert Baratheon usurping their father's throne, they are both too young to remember that their father was [[The Caligula|a raving nutter that everyone hated.]] (Robert, for all his flaws, is sane, and has maintained peace for seventeen years.)
* This is essentially the case in the season 3 finale of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' , when Morgana took over and Arthur, Gaius, Merlin and the knights escaped into hiding. Uther remained imprisoned, though, until the good guys returned to retake the castle and free him.
* One ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' Mission of the Week involved the jailbreak of a political prisoner from an apartheid regime in order to set up a
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[
* In ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [
* [[World War II]] had Charles de Gaulle, who initially lead part of the [[Fighting
* Several nations that were invaded by Germany in WWII had governments-in-exile, often headquartered in London.
* 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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