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== [[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 [[Government in Exile]]}}.

* 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 Government in Exile}}.

* [[1632]] is a variant of this. Being irreparably separated from the United States, Grantsville re-founds America.

* The last book in ''[[The Westmark Trilogy]]'' has the protagonists form a [[Government in Exile]] while still in the country. The text even says it isn't a government-in-exile, it's a government-in-pawnshop.

* The last book in ''[[The Westmark Trilogy]]'' has the protagonists form a Government in Exile while still in the country. The text even says it isn't a government-in-exile, it's a government-in-pawnshop.

* 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 [[Government in Exile]].

* 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 Government in Exile.

* In the later ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' books, the [[The Remnant|Peoples' Navy In Exile]] make allusions to this, but they never fool anybody but themselves. {{spoiler|And then they don't even fool themselves anymore once they [[Heel Realization|realize]] that they have crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] by cutting a deal with the Mesans to act as hired guns in return for support.}}

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* 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 [[Government in Exile]] with him in charge.

* One ''[[Mission Impossible]]'' Mission of the Week involved the jailbreak of a political prisoner from an apartheid regime in order to set up a Government in Exile with him in charge.

== [[Video Games]] ==

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== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' ~~-- the~~ surviving residents and leaders of [[Single Pallette Town|Azure City]] escaped on ships out to sea after [[Big Bad|Xykon's]] forces took over their homeland. Post-[[Time Skip]] finds them still trying to find a place to re-settle since the other Southern nations can't take in ''all'' the refugees. It finally takes [[A Wizard Did It|a wizard]] to get them all to a suitably-inhabitable island to colonize. Meanwhile, the Azure City residents that were left behind form different factions of [[La Résistance]] and [[Divided We Fall|bicker amongst themselves.]]

* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''—the surviving residents and leaders of [[Single Pallette Town|Azure City]] escaped on ships out to sea after [[Big Bad|Xykon's]] forces took over their homeland. Post-[[Time Skip]] finds them still trying to find a place to re-settle since the other Southern nations can't take in ''all'' the refugees. It finally takes [[A Wizard Did It|a wizard]] to get them all to a suitably-inhabitable island to colonize. Meanwhile, the Azure City residents that were left behind form different factions of [[La Résistance]] and [[Divided We Fall|bicker amongst themselves.]]

* In ''[[Drowtales]]'', the clans of Chel'el'sussoloth started out as this and believed in the Queen Sharess' promise to bring them back to the surface after war forced them underground, but by the time the main story begins it's persisted for a millennium and almost all of the original dark elves have been replaced by their children the drow, and the fact that they haven't adapted since then causes problems that become more and more evident as the series goes on and the office of the Val'Sharess, who supposedly speaks for Sharess, is shown to be either indifferent or powerless.