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According to a good deal of [[Speculative Fiction]] set in [[The Future]][[Tradesnark™|™]], it is the natural order of things that all governments will merge together to create a central authority to govern the entire species. It's not necessarily the human species, however.
Sapient [[
The examples can cover a range of extremes: the government is benevolent, efficient, enlightened and out for your [[Benevolent Boss|well]]-[[Reasonable Authority Figure|being]]; [[Shadow Dictator|just]] [[The Illuminati|downright evil]]; or plain [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|realistic]], or anything in between.
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If the species in question is humanity, there may be more diversity involved, if only because the writers don't need to ''invent'' it all. The aliens may also look the same. See [[Ditto Aliens]]. See also [[Planetville]].
Note: If you happen to be in a Christian "End Times" story, and a single government controls the planet, watch out for [[The Antichrist|the dude]] with [[Beard of Evil|the goatee]]. Alternately, watch out for [[Man Behind the Man|the guy standing BEHIND the dude with the goatee]]. If the "villains" are seeking a
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== Anime & Manga ==▼
== Played Straight ==
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', the entire world is ruled by the aptly named World Government. In the past, there were other countries (at least 20) but they banded together to defeat the old world power. Now a days there is a civil war led by the Revolutionary known as Dragon.
** There are ''still'' many minor governments, but the World Government is working hard to incorporate them (sometimes peacefully sometimes... not), or obliterate them and send their populations to slave works. [[The Empire|They are that kind of people]].
* Anatoray and Disith in ''[[Last Exile]]'' eventually merge to form
* Sara's and Lottie's home planet in ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'', as well as possibly the whole Union, resembles... Victorian England in space with gender equality. Go figure.
* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Gundam 00]]'', the three world-dominating blocs which make up most of the world form a World Government to oppose [[Necessarily Evil|Celestial Being]], and call themselves [[The Federation]]. At first they are evil, due to the manipulations of the [[Big Bad]] ([[Unfortunate Implications|and headed by a guy who looks a lot like Barack Obama]]), but at the end of the show become a benevolent version ([[Memetic Mutation|and headed by someone who looks a lot like Hillary Clinton]]).
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* In one ''[[Justice League of America]]'' story, it's [[Lampshade Hanging|explained]] that the reason so much cosmic weirdness gets drawn to Earth and not other inhabited worlds is that Earth is unique in the universe for having a multitude of different races and cultures. Go figure.
** Similiarly, ''[[Green Lantern]]''/''Sinestro Corps Secret Files'' claims that Earth is "the most diverse and emotionally rich planet in the universe, boasting more differing cultures and languages than most galaxies".
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* ''[[Thousand Shinji]]'': "Today there are no more nations, there is only humanity."▼
* One Nation Earth is in control of all the earth throughout all the movies in the [[Apocalypse]] film series so far, and has been shown to be rather oppressive to both Christians and [[With Us or Against Us|those who have not chosen a side]].▼
* The ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' universe had one government controlling Earth and all colonies. There was a massive war between China and Russia/Europe/America and after 90 years a wave of revolts in Europe overthrow the current governments and formed the United Citizens' Federation, then the Americas did the same. Finally they decided to go to war with China (and anybody who was left) to create the peaceful loving government we know. [http://starshiptroopers.wikia.com/wiki/United_Citizen_Federation Do you want to know more?]▼
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▲* One Nation Earth is in control of all the earth throughout all the movies in the ''[[Apocalypse]]'' film series so far{{when}}, and has been shown to be rather oppressive to both Christians and [[With Us or Against Us|those who have not chosen a side]].
▲* ''[[Thousand Shinji]]'': "Today there are no more nations, there is only humanity."
▲* The ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' universe had one government controlling Earth and all colonies. There was a massive war between China and Russia/Europe/America and after 90 years a wave of revolts in Europe overthrow the current governments and formed the United Citizens' Federation, then the Americas did the same. Finally they decided to go to war with China (and anybody who was left) to create the peaceful loving government we know. [http://starshiptroopers.wikia.com/wiki/United_Citizen_Federation Do you want to know more?]
=== Literature ===
* In David Wingrove's ''[[Chung Kuo]]'', the entire world is ruled by the Seven and simply called the City, or Chung Kuo.
* In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], most species on the galactic scene are very much from a [[Planet of Hats]].
** ''But...'' at the same time the trope is somewhat [[Averted Trope|averted]]. Several alien species hail from a number of planets - Duros, Twi'leks, Zabraks, and, yes, humans, all come from any number of worlds rather than just
** ''[[X Wing Series|Starfighters of Adumar]]'' is about, among other things, a planet that had been human-colonized and left isolated being discovered by the New Republic and the Empire. The planet, Adumar, was a nonunified mass of countries, many at war with each other, making trying to get the world to affiliate with one or the other complicated. Negotiations were with the leader of the largest country with the greatest number of allies. He was trying to unite the planet under him; other countries weren't having that, and there was a battle. The bottom line has a world government formed from representatives of each country, rather than that one guy.
* In the ''[[Left Behind]]'' series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, [[The Antichrist]] becomes leader of the UN and creates the Global Community, declaring a single world government, currency, and ''religion''. No one objects, and it's not clear if this is supposed to be because of his [[Mind Control]] abilities. Its successor, the universal state created by [[God]] after the Second Coming, also qualifies as a (supposedly) more benign example.
* Ira Levin's ''[[This Perfect Day]]'' has the entire world unified under the control of one gigantic supercomputer, although the backstory shows that political and cultural unification predates the building of UNICOMP by a generation or two, while each continent had its own computer before that (EUROCOMP, USACOMP, et cetera). This political unification is one of the few things about his society that doesn't annoy the hero so much that he decides to blow up the computer.
* This is one of the main points of the paradise-like Third Earth of DJ MacHale's ''[[Pendragon]]''.
* The first cycle of ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'', the third power feature as part of the plot the unification of Earth into a
* In Peter F Hamilton's ''[[The
* In Dan Simmon's ''[[Hyperion]]'' books, the Hegemony of Man is a Multiple-World Order, with almost 250 planets under one government, all connected by millions of [[Portal Network|Farcaster portals]].
* The United Nations fulfiled this function (in ''Rocketship Galileo'' by [[Robert Heinlein]] peace is enforced by the guided rockets of the U.N. World Patrol, while ''The Ganymede Takeover'' by [[Philip K. Dick]] makes reference to the U.N. Army fighting the [[Alien Invasion]]) before they became synonymous with corruption, indecision and inefficiency. Of course, that in itself can be a useful trope, as seen in the contemporary Takeshi Kovacs novels by Richard Morgan, where a U.N Protectorate maintains its rule over the Earth colonies by propaganda, military force and subtle corruption.
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=== Live-Action TV ===
* EarthGov from ''[[Babylon 5]]'' is one. However, rather than being a Monolithic One World Order, EarthGov is actually an alliance of most of the world's major powers at the time of First Contact. Europe, America, Russia, Japan and others. It's implied that many countries initially resisted the formation of EarthGov and that wars were fought over the issue. It is also implied that many countries even in 2200 are ''not'' equal members of the Earth Alliance, however the EA is the sole official representative of Humanity. At several points the issue is commented on. In the Movie ''A Call to Arms'', the primarily Russian-crewed ''Hermes'' commander greets Sheridan with, "On behalf of the Russian Consortium, which has lost many citizen in recent conflicts...". During the series someone from the 'Micronesia'? Consortium wryly comments that "they put more into EarthGov than they get out of it". EarthGov itself definitely falls in the ''[[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|realistic]]''. Crime, unemployment, homelessness and other social ills definitely continue to exist despite a Unified world government.
** This trope holds true for the Centauri and the Minbari as well.
* Despite the fact that the humans in ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' come from twelve different planets, there is only a single primary religion among them (although some groups are more extreme or dogmatic in their beliefs than others, and atheism definitely exists in their culture as well). However, in the original series, at least, there are different sects referred to, and a guarantee of religious freedom is part of Colonial law, or at least culture. It's also arguably justified by the fact that their gods seem to exist physically in some form.
** At least in the [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|new series]], the Twelve Colonies are implied to have been in contact since their founding, making it fairly reasonable that they would have a fairly unified culture. The really surprising thing is that different skin colors and British accents still exist, and yet don't seem to map at all to colony of origin.
*** Not entirely true; apparently Baltar overcame an Aerilon (Yorkshire) accent so that people wouldn't know where he was from. Still doesn't explain why he has a British accent and everyone else pretty much speaks with a generic American accent.
*** Also, there are certainly other cultural differences; the people of Gemenon take their faith much more seriously than those of the other colonies, and the people of Sagittaron don't believe in modern medicine.
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*** All of that is depicted in the [[Prequel]] series ''[[Caprica]]''; the Colonies are all independent states, with different forms of government (although since each colony is an entire planet, it still semi-fits this trope). For instance, given talk of a "Prime Minister" and "Commerce Minister," it appears that Caprica itself (later capital of the Twelve Colonies) is a parliamentary republic. Also, it turns out that there ''wasn't'' just the one religion: a few people were monotheists.
**** Other sources such as ''The Caprican'' online newsletter explain a bit more of the differences between the Colonies. Leonis was an empire (albeit one in decline) and Virgon is a parliamentary monarchy and both had colonised Tauron for some time. Tauron was a democracy before the civil war but is hinted to be a military government. Aquaria/Aquarion, owing to its tiny population, could afford to have a participatory democracy. What is consistent is that almost every Colony, even the ones that share friendly relations, suffer from prejudice and dislike towards one another. It's explained that [[We ARE Struggling Together!|if it wasn't for the threat of the Cylons, the Colonies would not have united]].
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' is the number one utilizer. [[The Federation]] is in fact a government for ''several'' species, and it's rare for there to be any diversity in alien culture except in service to the plot. (Benzites do not report a situation to their commanding officer until they have fully analyzed it, for example, preventing a Benzite crewmember from heading off a situation before it can escalate to a dramatic level.) In one episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', Picard and Beverly even discuss whether or not having
** ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' was a little less blatant about this, partly because they stayed in one place so could get a bit more involved with the politics of alien races (particularly the Bajorans, who were shown to have different "provinces" on their planet, as well as at least one terrorist splinter group) and partly because it was [[Darker and Edgier]] anyway.
** [[Unfortunate Implications]] abound: [[The Federation]] seems to be unable to truly coexist with any culture without absorbing it, and its rivals - empires of similar size - are shown to be not only culturally but racially homogenous.
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=== Tabletop Games ===
* The "New World Order" conspiracy theory is played both ways in the ''Dark•Matter'' campaign setting for ''[[D20 Modern]]'' (well, unless your GM modifies things) -- the conspiracy theorists are right in that the UN intends to unite humanity, and they are right in that black helicopters are used by the UN elite forces. It's the other bits that are mistaken: It is suggested that the UN's leadership would prefer this to be a ''democratic'' state, which is one reason why it has taken so long, the UN have solid, sensible reasons for thinking a human unification to be a Good, or at least Necessary, Thing, and they have Christians amongst the top ranks.
* The Tau Empire in ''[[Warhammer
** This actually makes a measure of sense. The Tau homeworld was contentious and wartorn until the coming of the Ethereals and the firm establishment of the Caste system united them for the Greater Good. Then came a period of glorious victory and expansion. Now, they're butting up against the big boys and having to face against the horrors of alien races. This is the cause of most of their divisions.
* The Architects of the Flesh from ''[[Feng Shui]]'' have set up one of these in 2056, run by the Bureau of Tactical Management (or the Buro in short). The population is kept in line through powerful feng shui, though there are still pockets of resistance around the world. There's also one major area that is immune to the influence of Chi and where technology more advanced than ancient weapons just doesn't work, watched over by the Vikings.
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* In the setting of ''[[Crusader: No Remorse|Crusader]]'', the world (indeed, the solar system) is ruled by a single government, the WEC. Simply put, the WEC is every corporation in the world, merged into a hypercorporation, ruling the stead of a government.
** The truth is naturally more complex than that, but this is a very useful lie.
* In ''[[Spore]]'' uniting the whole planet into a
** Once you control 8-9 of the 10 cities, the others will hail you and explain that they "see the writing on the wall" and just join your empire on the spot.
* The EDEN empire in the ''[[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Galaxy Angel]]'' games encompasses a lot of diverse planets, but yup, each one has one culture to its name. Parodied (as with all things) in the ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' anime, where there are such things as industrial planets, resort planets, etc. owned by one ''person''.
* Earth finally uniting as a
* This is the goal of ''[[Deus Ex]]'' Evil CEO [[Big Bad]]. By buying influence with money or blackmailing with a critical vaccine, he can have his choice of appointees in any government agency in the world, and have the legislation drafted to give them authority to declare and maintain martial law. He gradually stages legal coups to make the transfer of authority to a U.N. enforcement agency permanent, consolidating control of all governments.
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' plays with this a
* ''[[Project Sylpheed]]'' gives us the Terran Central Government (TCG), which apparently rules the entire Earth and its colonies. It has the Terran Central Armed Forces (TCAF) as its military.
* Averted in ''[[Galactic Civilizations]] 2'': factions start the games as a
* Played straight in the ''[[Dead Space (series)|Dead Space]]'' series with EarthGov. It's mentioned in background sources that this was the result of several wars, political upheavals and the depletion of natural resources planetside. It's also mentioned, however, that special preference was made to the United States.
* In ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', the Administrator is the CEO of two [[NGO Superpower|NGOSuperpowers]], RED and BLU, and a [[War for Fun and Profit|weapon supply company]], TFIndustries; all together, they give her complete control of the entire world.
* The ultimate objective of most ''[[Total War]]'' games is to make one of these with your faction of choice. A ''lot'' harder than it sounds.
* One method of winning Campaign Mode in ''[[Rise of Nations]]'' is to have your faction take over the world, creating a
=== Western Animation ===
* In ''[[Futurama]]'' Earth is under one government based in Washington D.C., implying that the U.S. has taking over everything. Its flag, "Old Freebie" is just the Stars and Stripes with a globe in place of the stars. Earth, in turn, is part of the Democratic Order of Planets (DOOP), analogous to the United Nations (or to [[The Federation]], which is how the ''[[Star Trek]]''-obsessed Fry understands it).
** Moreover, all
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': Starfire's family are the rulers of all of Tamaran.
* In ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', this is what used to be for the Ghost Zone when the evil dictator Pariah Dark ruled it with an iron fist. Naturally, the citizens weren't happy and rebelled. He tried to get his kingdom back AND take over Earth, but he had [[Big Damn Heroes]] on the opposite end.
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* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]], species that don't have much to do with the greater galaxy are quite capable of maintaining several different cultures, factions, sects, teams, and fan clubs.▼
** A good aversion of [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]. Since a vast majority of star systems in the galaxy can ''(and do)'' support sentient life, there are simply far too many races and planets for all of them to be homogenized under one banner. Even [[The Empire]] at it's height controlled maybe 60-65% of the galaxy and had nowhere near enough soldiers or starships to make their presence known outside of space-faring systems, with many "mini-Empires" and planets that enjoyed ''de facto'' autonomy. Chances are good that hundreds, maybe thousands, of star systems within the Empire's borders watched it come and go without ever having known it was there.▼
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* Averted, subverted and occasionally played straight in the [[Humongous Mecha]] manga series ''[[The Five Star Stories]]'', where out of the half-dozen or so habitable planets orbiting the titular stars, only one is unified under a single government and wars between the various countries on the other planets are extremely common. As national identity is a major theme in the series, the aforementioned planetary empires attempts to unite the others through military conquest later in the series... doesn't turn out so well. On the other hand, in the series' backstory, we find that the entire ''galaxy'' and then some was united in a mystical "Super Empire" in the distant past.
* The [[Gundam]] series in general are a subversion of this trope; when colonies are established in space, they inevitably try to become independent from Earth resulting in Space Wars.
** The Universal Century timeline comes close, in that the Earth Federation rules over all of Earth and generally claims sovereignty over the colonies, but some colonies are not overly happy about this. Even the UC colonies aren't a unified bunch. Side 3 makes up the heart of Zeon (considered semi-autonomous after the One Year War, albeit with a puppet government controlled by the Federation in reality), while Side 6 declares political neutrality in the One Year War, Side 4 briefly becomes the [[Mobile Suit Gundam F91|Cosmo Babylonia aristocracy]], while Side 2 eventually becomes the [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam|Zanscare Empire]]. Then there's the Jupiter Sphere, which is technically considered part of the Earth Federation (by the EF, anyway), but they're so far away that Earth can't really enforce anything on them, so they consider themselves independant. That's not even mentioning the whole situation with [[The Remnant|Axis]]. Needless to say, the UC timeline totally destroys this trope.
* ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' frequently refers to the Earth as though it were one political entity, but this isn't the case. It is in fact divided into seven or eight supranational blocs, as well as the Orb Union, a small but powerful south Pacific island country. Most of them are united in a military alliance under the Atlantic Federation, which is hostile to the space nation of ZAFT. However, a couple of nations on Earth support ZAFT, most notably the Oceania Union (Australia + New Zealand), which lends ZAFT the use of a large naval base at Carpenteria, and a few others remain stubbornly neutral in the whole affair, including Orb.
* ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'' ultimately averts this in the long run. Early on in its backstory, there was an attempt to unify humanity following World War III, which succeeded. At least until the various space colonies established begin to rebel against the oppressive United Earth government. By the time the series itself takes place (around the 36th Century), the two main polities are the Galactic Empire and Free Planets Alliance, which both have varying degrees of autonomy and self-rule for their vast territories due to the nature of space travel (neo-feudalism for the Empire and federalism for the Alliance).
=== Fan
* Inversion of [[Enforced Trope]] in ''[[An Entry With a Bang]]!'': The writers have mostly agreed that, despite Clancy-Earth presenting a united front in their relations with the ''[[BattleTech]]'' entities, the countries on C-Earth proper will not unite into a super-entity in its purest state of a truly singular government, but exactly what the CSN's political structure is to be instead is a discussion that has [[Flame War|gotten inflammatory]] at times.
=== Literature ===
* In
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s ''The Left Hand Of Darkness'', in which Gethen has several different countries. The protagonist eventually visits the country of Orgota, to find that its government and customs are vastly different from Karhide, and even mentions that he's not as familiar with the native language.
* Similarly, in LeGuin's ''[[The Dispossessed]]'', Urras is divided into several countries, including ([[Nominal Importance|at minimum]]) the liberal democratic capitalist A-Io and the [[People's Republic of Tyranny|"socialist" totalitarian state]] Thu, which are fighting a proxy war in unstable [[Banana Republic|Benbilli]]. If this sounds like the [[Cold War]]...well...[[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|it should]]. Urras, it should be noted, is a double planet, with its (relatively) barren partner Anarres having been settled by "Odonian" anarcho-syndicalists who, as such, have no state. Although LeGuin is herself a noted anarcho-syndicalist, Anarres averts [[Mary Suetopia]] by having a legion of problems, including the development of [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|entrenched bureaucracy]] among the "syndics."
▲* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]], species that don't have much to do with the greater galaxy are quite capable of maintaining several different cultures, factions, sects, teams, and fan clubs.
▲** A good aversion of [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]. Since a vast majority of star systems in the galaxy can ''(and do)'' support sentient life, there are simply far too many races and planets for all of them to be homogenized under one banner. Even [[The Empire]] at it's height controlled maybe 60-65% of the galaxy and had nowhere near enough soldiers or starships to make their presence known outside of space-faring systems, with many "mini-Empires" and planets that enjoyed ''de facto'' autonomy. Chances are good that hundreds, maybe thousands, of star systems within the Empire's borders watched it come and go without ever having known it was there.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* [[Lampshade
* Both the Minbari and the Centauri in ''[[Babylon 5]]'' had wide enough variations in languages that different representatives had different accents when speaking in English (Lennier vs. Delenn, Vir vs. Londo). (But they still had monolithic cultures, against which Earth's diversity was [[Lampshade Hanging|deliberately contrasted]] in a first-season episode.)
** Judging from the flashes to the future at the end of the fourth season, it seems to be implied that the humanity is on its way towards a monolithic culture, as
* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', the Goa'uld are ruled by a group called the System Lords; true to their name, their government is generally very feudal, with Goa'uld serving different leaders, trying to empower themselves, and at war most of the time (using expendable human slaves).
** Also, the Tok'ra [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|reject the Goa'uld practice of taking over unwilling hosts]], and live as symbionts with partners who voluntarily host them.
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=== Tabletop Games ===
* The backstory universe of ''[[BattleTech]]'' has the One World Order forming and collapsing no less than 4 times! First Earth became a one-world order who sent out space colonies. Eventually the colonies rebelled into several bickering nations. Finally a force of personality united the bickering 5 major nations into a united One-Galaxy Empire. This collapsed after a Usurper killed the leader and his family and the five nations each claimed the throne. The Army of the now gone One-World Government fled and set up a new one world government of its own (the Clans). After 300 year of fighting, these clans returned. After an initial thwarting, the One-world-Order leader of the Clans was dissolved. In eventual response to the invasion, the 5 governments recreated the original one-world government again as a united force to stop the invaders. after the invaders stopped, the government, its mission accomplished, was dissolved. At which point an army of religious fanatics attempted to take on the whole galaxy to recreate another one-world government in their own image. The point seems to be that
** ...or just tear themselves apart anyway, [[Humans Are Warriors|'cause that's how we roll]]. After all, [[Real Life]] governments of all sizes have a habit of doing this once there's nobody left to fight, too. ''[[BattleTech]]'' always was one of the more intensely political fantasy/sci-fi universes.
* ''[[Traveller]]'': Played with. The Third Imperium is the dominant power. However the Imperium has thousands of subsidiary governments, sometimes several on the same world, as well as governments outside the Imperium. [[Planet Terra]] itself is usually under one government.
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* {{spoiler|The final villains of}} ''[[Ace Combat]] Zero: The Belkan War'' seek to bring about peace and correct the non-OWOness of humanity by eliminating the political entities, ergo governments and borders, that lead to war.
* ''[[Galactic Civilizations]] II'' appears to follow this trope at first, with civilizations named after their race and all the usual trappings. But in many situations it's highlighted that none of these space-faring civilizations speak for ALL their species, just the ones that got into a big ol' pile and started starfaring together. For example: If any one planet has a monumental population boom, the news will go out of its way to state that the 2 billion new faces couldn't possibly have been born in less than a year, and that much of it is from same-race foreign immigrants applying for citizenship.
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=== Web Originals ===
* In the [[Chaos Timeline]], {{spoiler|the Logos (hackers) succeed doing this.}}
=== Western Animation ===
* Parodied in ''[[South Park]]'', where it is revealed that in the rest of the Universe, each ''species'' has its own planet; Earth was created to be a bizarre mix of all different kinds of things (gazelles, lions, Jews, Arabs, etc.) to form the basis of a TV show.
* The entire premise of ''[[Transformers]]'' is that there are two distinct and warring factions of the same alien race. The overall culture within each faction is largely monolithic, however (Autobots bland and friendly, Decepticons backstabby), and very few characters are presented as neutral or independent. Occasionally, we had characters with unusual or seemingly inappropriate personalities who were nonetheless distinguished by their alliance. Later examples present more complex cultures, especially ''Beast Wars''
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[[Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes]]
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{{related|Ancient Conspiracy}}
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{{related|The Illuminati}}
{{related|The Omniscient Council of Vagueness}}
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