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In the real world, when some horrible disaster happens, humanitarian aid generally pours in to the area. In the United States, these efforts are (in theory) coordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or "FEMA" for short, hence the trope name. It may not be effective for whatever reason, but people ''try'' to help.
Not so in fiction, where earthquakes, terrorist attacks, and stranger events are ''avoided'' or outright cordoned off by the outside world and the survivors are left to fend for themselves. This seems especially prevalent in Japanese fiction, as it appears that nation has ''zero'' confidence in the stability of the social
This covers isolated disasters ignored by the outside world, not conditions where the ''entire'' fabric of civilization has been destroyed by global-scale events. A [[Lampshade Hanging]] of this trope as the first clue that a disaster extends ''beyond'' the purely local scale is such a common narrative device that it's very nearly a sub-trope.
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