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* One of the most obvious examples is the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode "Patterns of Force," where a historian creates a Nazi planet because it was the "most efficient state ever." It ends in tears, of course, because it's a frickin' Nazi planet. But it's efficient - unlike, as discussed below, the real Nazi Germany...
**The real Nazi state got all the efficiency it had from the [[Prussia and All That Lot|Hollenzollerns]]. At that even the earlier German state was mainly good at tactics which was sufficient when it had a sensible "pocket your winnings and leave the casino" policy under William I and Otto von Bismark but in Hitler it got the political equivalent of a superstitious gambler who thinks it mathematically possible to have a such thing as an irresistible winning streak.
***In point of fact [[The British Empire]] despite all it's fairy-tale anachronisms, tribalistic aesthetics, and (shock!) concessions to liberty actually was far more efficient. It was able to marshal resources from all over the world; conduct political policies, and secret service intrigues; and launch massive campaigns while depending not on the whims of a single man but an [[Quintessential British Gentleman||oligarchy]] that had received the same training in school and more or less knew what every other one was likely to do in every part of the world. Fascism is not only not necessary to efficient government it is not even conducive to it. The best it can say is that decisions will often be faster. Even that is not always good as "fast" can mean "hasty".
* The conspiracy in ''[[The X-Files]]'' never, ever has to worry about coincidence. Ever. Does a UFO have to delay its flight because of bad weather?
** A particularly egregious example; even when something goes wrong the MIB move in so fast that the heroes are lucky if they get there in time to watch the evidence/witness/[[Complete Monster]] disappear.
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