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* [[Ditto Aliens]]: To outsiders, most any human ethnic group looks alike.
* [[ItsIt's a Small World After All]]: [[Planetville]] is as small as a town, so finding things is the same.
* [[One World Order]]: A country has one government except in civil wars. [[Planetville]] has only one except in civil wars.
* [[Planet of Hats]]: It's just like the wacky [[Adventure Towns]] of Earth.
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Not to be confused with planets that are ''literally'' covered by a single city--that's an [[City Planet|Ecumenopolis]], a subtype of the aforementioned [[Single Biome Planet]] (and one of the few that is remotely within the realm of possibility).
 
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Lucifer (Comic Book)|Lucifer]]'': The birth of a new "creation"--explicitly described as a new "multiverse"--seems to consist of approximately one region the size of Europe being made.
** That's just where all the interesting stuff happens (following in daddy's footsteps). Twenty six pages showing the inky blackness of space in order to demonstrate scale does not make for a fun story.
* Oddly inverted in a [[Marvel Comics]] miniseries, ''Captain Universe''. Gladiator, a [[Flying Brick]] alien flies to Earth from across the galaxy. That sort of travel is usually hand waved in comics as those characters being just that darn powerful. It gets odd when Gladiator has to fly from one part of the globe to another once he gets there and uses the Captain Universe [[Power -Up]] in order to grant himself enough speed to make the flight in time. So essentially, space is smaller than the planet Earth, according to this story.
 
 
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** The action on Zadaa is mostly in the city of Xhaxu, a thinly-veiled Africa. Indeed, the entire conflict in ''The Rivers of Zadaa'' is similar to the South African apartheid.
* Fantasy fiction can make similar errors, but with ''Plane''villes instead of Planetvilles. It's particularly egregious when other planes/realities are considered infinite, yet are ruled over by a single archdemon, fey lord, or the like.
* Avoided in regards to Earth in Harry Turtledove's ''[[WorldWorldwar War(Literature)]]'' series - the difference in national identities confuses the Lizards, as does the human propensity to keep fighting even after the capitals and major cities have been subjugated. The tropes is in full effect on the Lizards' homeworld, however, and to some extent justified in that it is (mostly) a [[Single Biome Planet]] that has had a single, united monarchy for millenia.
* In [[Star Trek the Battle of Betazed]], Cort Enaran is leading the Betazoid Resistance. Having one group of resistance fighters under one mountain chain referred to as "the Betazoid Resistance" seems to take us into Planetville territory. That said, Enaran and other leaders are former members of the parliament, so their resistance cell (near the capital) might be considered ''the'' resistance. Still, the novel probably runs afoul of this trope.
 
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