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** Distributing affordable drugs in large quantities makes it a borderline case with [[Government Drug Enforcement]]. |
** Distributing affordable drugs in large quantities makes it a borderline case with [[Government Drug Enforcement]]. |
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* ''[[It's a Good Life]]'' |
* ''[[It's a Good Life]]'' |
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* In ''[[Witches Abroad]]'', Lily Weatherwax is an evil fairy godmother that turns Genua into an [[Expy]] of Disney Land, where everyone is happy and laughing... because the ones that aren't, disappear. |
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* In ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', people are required to love [[Evil Overlord|Big Brother]] and be happy about it. |
* In ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', people are required to love [[Evil Overlord|Big Brother]] and be happy about it. |
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* In ''[[Slave World]]'', this is used as an addition to [[Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul]]: The slaves are biochemically altered for certain kinds of happiness, and they get punished if they try to resist the effect. |
* In ''[[Slave World]]'', this is used as an addition to [[Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul]]: The slaves are biochemically altered for certain kinds of happiness, and they get punished if they try to resist the effect. |
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* Inverted in Mr. Men/Little Miss story ''Little Miss Sunshine'' (not the movie about the infant beauty contest), the titular character visits Miseryland, where the inhabitants are kept miserable simply because of a sign stating the laws: "No smiling, no laughing, no chuckling. Giggling forbidden by order of the king." Naturally, Miss Sunshine is able to turn the kingdom around by simply changing the wording of the sign. |
* Inverted in [[Mr. Men]]/Little Miss story ''Little Miss Sunshine'' (not the movie about the infant beauty contest), the titular character visits Miseryland, where the inhabitants are kept miserable simply because of a sign stating the laws: "No smiling, no laughing, no chuckling. Giggling forbidden by order of the king." Naturally, Miss Sunshine is able to turn the kingdom around by simply changing the wording of the sign. |
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* In ''[[Hard To Be A God]]'' at some moment freshly established theocracy punishes people for "non-ecstatic way of thinking". |
* In ''[[Hard To Be A God]]'' at some moment freshly established theocracy punishes people for "non-ecstatic way of thinking". |
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* In ''[[The Giver]]'', it's more like "Quiet Contentment is Mandatory", since excess emotion is discouraged in the dystopian society. |
* In ''[[The Giver]]'', it's more like "Quiet Contentment is Mandatory", since excess emotion is discouraged in the dystopian society. |
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