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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
* 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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