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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 order—the slightest accident on the street will inevitably lead to [[The Simpsons (animation)|people cracking each others' skulls open to feast on the goo within]]. This goes double if it's a [[Go Nagai]] production.
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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