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* The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, AKA [[North Korea]]. It's probably one of the best modern [[Real Life]] examples of the trope, since it includes "people's" ''and'' "democratic" in the name. Considering that recently deceased Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il, son of the first leader Kim Il-sung, has passed power down to ''his'' son Kim Jong-un, the "republic" part is also [[Hereditary Republic|rather dubious]].
** The DPRK's name is four lies for the price of one - it isn't democratic; it isn't for the people; it isn't a republic (seeing as the head of state is a dead man and the ruling family is a monarchy in all but name); and it doesn't include all of Korea, only the Northern half.<ref>(It should be noted, though, that South Korea is also guilty of that last one, being the Republic of Korea.)</ref>
** South Korea, officially the "Republic of Korea" isn't much better, and has had a history of herditary leadership (Park Chung-hee and Park Geun-hye). Everything on the internet is censored and all posters are tracked by social security number, with crackdowns threatened if posters question official state positions. The government proclaims ownership of the Korean language and, by extension, ''every'' work released in it. Merely playing a banned video game results in 5 years in jail. Western countries rarely push against this because its a useful buffer state against the even crazier North Korea, while the language barrier ensures the average westerner isn't aware of it either.
* The [[wikipedia:Laos|Lao People's Democratic Republic]].
* The People's Republic of [[China]], which today manages to be both a hyper-modern society and a communist single-party state. In 1949, when the Communists were deliberating over names for the new Chinese nation, they considered "People's Democratic Republic of China" until Zhou Enlai pointed out it was redundant.
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* The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. In fact, it's a fascist party that was engineered during the collapse of the Soviet Union as a sort of stalking horse for the CPSU and KGB to use to split the liberal vote. It's now mostly a cult of personality around its showmanlike leader, who uses a lot of opposition rhetoric [[Rule-Abiding Rebel|but actually tends to vote with Putin and United Russia when it comes to policymaking]]).
* An Argentine military coup that deposed President Juan Perón was named "Revolución Libertadora" (in Spanish, "Liberating revolution"). Besides being a military coup, unlike Perón—who was chosen by the people in free elections—the "Libertadora" banned the very mention of Perón's name (as well as eventually committing a large number of war crimes). Yes, exactly as it sounds.
== Real Life allusions ==
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