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This usually manifests itself in one of two ways:
Type A is your standard getaway for criminals and malcontents after they rob a bank or engage in a crime spree, to escape arrest and prosecution. This can even include travel ''within'' the same country. In the US for instance, the criminal will cross a "state line" (border between states) because the police of the state they were in has no jurisdiction in adjoining states. Especially common in [[Western
Type B is the sufficiently more noble version, where a character's home country is either going [[Crapsack World]] by way of [[After the End]], or is [[Day of the Jackboot|taken over by a totalitarian movement]] which quickly brings an end to the previous civil liberties, and escape is the only sane alternative. Fleeing the country is usually the end goal, and they'll likely either have to escape or avoid capture by the roving death-gangs or evil repressive authorities to leave.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''Border Crossing'', an adventure for ''[[Hero System|Espionage]]'' and ''Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes'', is closest to a Type A. The player characters are Western spies who infiltrate East Germany during the [[Cold War]] to investigate a mysterious "factory", and then have to get themselves '''out''' of East Germany. Unless the players have done an incredible job (or the GM has incredibly lousy die rolls), the secret police will be coming after the characters at some point in the mission.
* In ''Spycraft 2'', if you find yourself the subject of a manhunt you can escape by invoking this trope to initiate a chase scene: the manoeuvre is actually called "
== Real Life ==
* Averted in real life: During WWII, German [[POW
** When was this? Because if it was after May 22, 1942, Mexico wouldn't have been too welcoming.
** There was a Movie "The One That Got Away" about a German pilot who escaped from Canada, to the USA (pre-Pearl Harbor). True story, but he really was the only one. Mostly because they just plunked the prisons in the middle of lots of empty wilderness where even if they did escape, they wouldn't last long.
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== Music ==
* The [[Billy Joel]] song "Miami 2017" tells of a future in which New York City is destroyed and everyone flees to Florida. They can't literally
* Chris de Burgh's song ''Borderline'' is about this (probably the Nazi takeover of Germany, judging by the context of the sequel song ''Say Goodbye to it All'').
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