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** Distributing affordable drugs in large quantities makes it a borderline case with [[Government Drug Enforcement]].
* ''[[It's a Good Life]]''
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* In ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', people are required to love [[Evil Overlord|Big Brother]] and be happy about it.
* 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.
* 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.
* In ''[[Hard To Be A God]]'' at some moment freshly established theocracy punishes people for "non-ecstatic way of thinking".
* In ''[[The Giver]]'', it's more like "Quiet Contentment is Mandatory", since excess emotion is discouraged in the dystopian society.
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