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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[One Piece (Manga)|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 (Anime)|Last Exile]]'' eventually merge to form [[One World Order]] under the leadership of {{spoiler|Empress Sophia.}}
* Sara's and Lottie's home planet in ''[[Soukou no Strain (Anime)|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 (Anime)|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]]).
* The latter half of ''[[After War Gundam X (Anime)|Gundam X]]'' focuses on the remnants of the old Earth Federation trying to reclaim their old influence... by forcibly conquering Europe, Asia, and Africa. By the end of the series, though, they're still having a hard time with North America (they really didn't expect the generally lawless and fractured city-states and Vultures to band together against them) and the remaining space colonies are not pleased with the Federation's revival.
* In ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', we get to see this in action as [[War for Fun Andand Profit|the Romefeller Foundation]] uses their overwhelming military power to conquer the planet, forming the World Nation. Then they make [[Rebellious Princess|Relena]] their figurehead leader and she pulls [[Reassignment Backfire]] by turning the Foundation benevolent. At the end of the series, the World Nation surrenders to the colony rebel army White Fang, and between then and [[The Movie]] it becomes the Earth Sphere Unified Nation, which despite the name seems to be a more benevolent [[The Federation]].
* In the Universal Century ''Gundam'' series, the Earth Federation had long establish control over the entire planet. On the other hand, it's presented (especially further down the line) as an elitist, bureaucratic mess rife with corruption. Their reach beyond the planet is also shown to be shaky at best, with many of the colonies not exactly eager to be under EF rule.
* In ''[[Monster (Mangamanga)|Monster]]'', many organizations hope that Johan Liebert will lead them to this. Of course, [[Complete Monster|Johan Liebert]] doesn't care about any of that as he shows all of them that [[Evil Is Not a Toy]].
 
 
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== Films ==
* One Nation Earth is in control of all the earth throughout all the movies in the [[Apocalypse (Film)|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?]
 
 
== Fan Fiction ==
* ''[[Thousand Shinji (Fanfic)|Thousand Shinji]]'': "Today there are no more nations, there is only humanity."
 
 
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* 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 [[One World Order]]. Even the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Mandalorians]] (more of a loose cultural affiliation rather than a species) now come in more than one variety, each wildly different than the other, thanks to ''[[Star Wars: theThe Clone Wars]]''. It's also worth noting that the galaxy is, itself, often depicted as a multispecies coalition rather than as single-race empires.
** ''[[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.
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* 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 [[One World Order]].
* In Peter F Hamilton's ''[[The Nights Dawn Trilogy (Literature)|The Nights Dawn Trilogy]]'', Earth deliberately creates colonies of this sort by a process of "ethnic streaming", to avoid giving people obvious differences to fight over. This is realised after the first, multi-ethnic extra-solar colonies descend into anarchy. Earth itself has a unified government, GovCentral.
* 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.
** A particularly cynical version appears in [[Larry Niven]]'s stories of Svetz the [[Time Travel|time traveler]]. The "SecGen" is apparently the absolute monarch of humanity, but the current SecGen (the product of [[Royally Screwed-Up|centuries of inbreeding]]) is a grown man with the mind of a small child. The actual control of the government rests with those who are most successful at [[Deadly Decadent Court|bureaucratic infighting]] and at cajoling the SecGen into approving their decisions.
* It is ''strongly'' implied that [[The Church]] of ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' wields de facto (if not de jure) power over the whole Earth. At least in Lyra's universe.
* In Olaf Stapledon's ''[[Last and First Men]]'', this happens ''several times'' over Man's eon-spanning [[Future History]]. The first of these is an Americanized World State.
* This is pretty much what the Polity is in the [[Polity Series]]- they are autocratic but fairly benevolent.
* [[Dichter Und Denker|German philosopher]] Oswald Spengler wrote in his non-fiction book ''[[The Decline of the West (Literature)|The Decline of the West]]'' that he thought the western civilization might create this at the end.
* ''[[CarrerasCarrera's Legions (Literature)|Carreras Legions]]'': The UN became this several centuries prior to current events in the series, and was renamed United Earth after the concept of nations was eliminated through legislative and bureaucratic methods.
 
 
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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: theThe Next Generation]]'', Picard and Beverly even discuss whether or not having [[One World Order]] is a prerequisite for Federation membership. (It isn't, technically, but apparently the question has never come up before.)
** ''[[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.
*** The former point is made on ''Deep Space Nine'' by Michael Eddington: "You know in some ways you're even worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You're more insidious. You assimilate people and they don't even know it."
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**** There is also a different explanation; maybe it's not insidious assimilation. Perhaps you just begin to like root beer because it's an acquired taste...just like [[The Federation]]. They're the most benevolent guys around, abounding with [[Reasonable Authority Figure|reasonable authority figures]] (Section 31 notwithstanding) and all sorts of benefits for their citizens, tangible and intangible, while pretty much anywhere else such niceties are very hard to find. There's nothing wrong with choosing root beer when the alternatives are unpalatable and you don't want to go thirsty.
* In ''[[Firefly]]'', the Alliance more or less rules all planets inhabited by humans, and has thoroughly put down the secessionist rebellion of the Independent Faction (in which Mal Reynolds served as a Browncoat).
* In ''[[Sea QuestSeaQuest DSV]]'', United Earth Oceans appears to be this for all intents and purposes, at least until the third season, when the show was renamed to ''seaQuest 2032''. In the ten years between the second and the third seasons, another major power arises, the Macronesian Alliance, starting a [[Cold War]] with UEO. This is in an attempt to make the show [[Darker and Edgier]].
 
 
== Tabletop Games ==
* The "New World Order" conspiracy theory is played both ways in the ''Dark•Matter'' campaign setting for ''[[D 20D20 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 40000]]'', though as their fluff is expanded, differences between Tau Septs are starting to appear.
** 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 (Tabletop Game)|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.
 
 
== Videogames ==
* In the setting of ''[[Crusader: (VideoNo Game)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 [[One World Order]] is the last step to unlock space travel.
** 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 (Videovideo Gamegame)|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 (Animeanime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' anime, where there are such things as industrial planets, resort planets, etc. owned by one ''person''.
* Earth finally uniting as a [[One World Order]] is the reason why the Cyrollans extend an invitation for humankind to join the Symbiotry of Peaceful Beings in ''[[The Journeyman Project]]'' {{spoiler|and why a key element in Dr. Elliot Sinclair's plan to prevent the Cyrollans, who he sees as a threat - legitimately so, as the third game reveals - from having an interest in Earth involves disrupting the peace talks that resulted in Earth's unification}}.
* This is the goal of ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|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 bit -- the codex notes that ''Earth'' is still controlled by several sovereign nations; however, anything outside the solar system is controlled by the Systems Alliance, a supranational body that controls human space business independent of any individual nation's interest, by necessity: the bickering nations couldn't effectively run an empire of that size.
* ''[[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 [[One World Order]], but moving up the [[Tech Tree]] allows more and more power to be delegated to colonies and other government bodies. The lack of red tape increases production, but also activates elections, forcing you to keep your popularity up to keep your political party in power, or suffer sever penalties if you lose the senate.
* Played straight in the ''[[Dead Space (Franchiseseries)|Dead Space]]'' series with [[Earth Gov]]. 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 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'', the Administrator is the CEO of two [[NGO Superpower|NGOSuperpowers]], RED and BLU, and a [[War for Fun Andand 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 [[One World Order]].
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* 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 bureaucrats -- apparently all of them, in all organizations, commercial, governmental or otherwise, large enough to require any bureaucrats -- are members of a single Central Bureaucracy.
* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|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.
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'': ''Rocket Jimmy'' seems to imply that [[Crapsack World|Miseryville]] is its own planet, ruled by [[Royally Screwed-Up|the Heinous Family]] for centuries. Since the setting is implied to be [[Hell]], it's not suprising.
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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 [[GundamMobile FSuit Gundam 91F91|Cosmo Babylonia aristocracy]], while Side 2 eventually becomes the [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (Anime)|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.
 
 
== Fan Fiction ==
* Inversion of [[Enforced Trope]] in ''[[An Entry With a Bang (Fanfic)|An Entry With a Bang]]!'': The writers have mostly agreed that, despite Clancy-Earth presenting a united front in their relations with the ''[[Battle TechBattleTech]]'' 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 The [[Strugatsky Brothers]] novels, [[One World Order]] appears to be the natural consequence of achieving a certain degree of technological/social advancement. Earth and all the [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] Earthlings encounter have a [[One World Order]], but the various [[Crapsack World|Crapsack Worlds]] inhabited by humanoids have warring nations messing things up even further.
* [[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."
 
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Alien Nation (TV series)|Alien Nation]]'' when Sykes is surprised his Tenctonese lady friend follows a more "Eastern" religion, then admits it's stupid to think an entire race of people would only follow one belief system.
* Both the Minbari and the Centauri in ''[[Babylon Five|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 well -- the logical result of easy travel and long-distance communication in the long term, presumably.
* 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).
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The backstory universe of ''[[Battle TechBattleTech]]'' 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 [[One World Order|One World Orders]] aren't viable...up until you realize that if a sustainable version were to be created, the game would end.
** ...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. ''[[Battle TechBattleTech]]'' 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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* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' both uses and subverts this trope. On the one hand, there is a galactic council that oversees issues relating to the entire galaxy. But the in-game literature also talks about how separate, smaller governments still exist. Also, they mention how each other species has as many varied languages, cultures, and religions as humans do.
** Even at a species level, truly unified government seems rare: the Turian Hierarchy is fairly centralised, but the Systems Alliance is a multinational organization that provides interstellar defense and diplomatic representation to Earth's actual nation states, the Salarian Union is a semi-feudal collection of independent matrilinear clans, and the Asari Republics barely qualify as a government at all (Their concil member is the ''only'' permanent asari political office).
* Also averted in ''[[Homeworld (Video Game)|Homeworld]],'' at least with the Kharaki/Hiigarans. While the species itself is unified, it's mentioned there are various, distinct clans and houses that serve as countries onto themselves.
* More or less the goal in ''[[Civilization]]'' games. The conquest victory would be an evil example, the diplomatic victory a benign case (although the U.N. does appoint you ruler over everything, including anyone still voting against you, so it can still overlap with the sinister examples). The cultural victory doesn't really imply an abolishment of nations, but more turning earth into a [[Planet of Hats]] where the entire culture is like that of your country, so it comes close. The science victory might imply the formation of [[The Federation]] when you travel to another star, but it seems more like telling the world [[South Park|"Screw you guys, I'm going to]] [[Sid MeiersMeier's Alpha Centauri|Alpha Centauri"]].
* While the United Nations in ''[[Halo]]'', or rather the UNSC serves as a unified front against the Covenant, it's mentioned that it's more or less a projection of the modern-day UN rather than a world government. Among others, it's stated that individual countries, organizations and cultures are still very much alive.
 
 
== Web Originals ==
* In the [[Chaos Timeline (Literature)|Chaos Timeline]], {{spoiler|the Logos (hackers) succeed doing this.}}
 
 
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