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* ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]'': Hell.
* In the [[Narnia]] series, everything ruled by Jadis / the White Witch. [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]] has something of a pattern here.
* ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'': The Party employs the Thought Police ("Thinkpol", as they call it in [[Newspeak]]), and apply relentless surveillance. Any individual with even the slightest hint of rebelling, even
* ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]''
* Randall Flagg's Las Vegas colony in [[The Stand]] probably applies here, considering people are frequently crucified for crimes.
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* Inquisitor Umbridge tries her best to turn Hogwarts into one in ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Order of the Phoenix''. Voldemort turns the Wizard world in England into one in ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Deathly Hallows''.
== [[Live
* An inversion is seen in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S25/E02 The Happiness Patrol|The Happiness Patrol]]" from 1988. The titular patrol used their "fun guns" and pink uniforms to suppress anyone seeming miserable or unhappy, whom they labelled "Killjoys". Some were executed by means of deadly sweets...
** Played straight in in "The Beast Below", where England {{smallcaps| [[In Space]]}} is turned into one of this. The government is keeping a secret and any dissidents who try to find out what happened are fed to the titular Beast Below. The Doctor figures this out pretty quickly since nobody is visibly reacting to his usual weirdness and nobody stops to inquire why a child is crying. They are too afraid.
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* [[Disturbed]]'s music video for "''Another Way To Die''" has a military-like group controlling all the earth's remaining water supplies and suppressing any form of agriculture not within their control.
== [[
* ''[[The Consul]]''▼
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==▼
* In ''[http://misspentyouthgame.com/ Misspent Youth]'' by Robert Bohl, a game where you play a group of teenage anarchists out to change the world, the group creates Systems of Control that are sci-fi-ish details about the world that The Authority uses to mess with your lives. These frequently include a police state, especially if the Authority's Visage is State.
▲* ''[[The Consul]]''{{context}}
== [[Video Games]] ==
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