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The character(s) live in a small secluded world. It could be a [[Pocket Dimension]], a island without communication [[Hidden Elf Village|with the outside world]], a spaceship lost on the void, a special kind of prison, or something else that has the same effect. If there is any contact at all with an outside world, then this contact is very limited.
When there doesn't seem to ''be'' any world outside the [[Small Secluded World]], then this trope overlaps with [[World Limited to
In any case, living in such narrow boundaries is likely to affect the characters negatively. They might get depressed, desperate to get out, or even fail to comprehend that anything larger then their Small Secluded World exists.
May often have a [[Wall Around the World]]. Any [[Hidden Elf Village]] or [[Ominous Floating Castle]] is likely to qualify for this trope if the characters are forced to live there for a while. Also, any case of [[Ontological Mystery]] is likely to also be a case of [[Small Secluded World]] or [[World Limited to
Compare with [[Bottle Episode]], where the characters are only locked in a secluded world, the bottle, for a single episode.
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Blast
* Most of ''[[
* ''[[Dark City]]'' appears to be an ordinary city on earth. But it's actually {{spoiler|some kind of space-station.}}
* In ''[[
* In ''[[The Others (
* The coffin in [[Buried]].
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** Well... {{spoiler|not since the last Ice Age, anyway}}.
* Most of the places in ''[[The Little Prince]]'', if the story is to be taken literally at all.
* For most of ''[[
* ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' feature a group of teenagers stuck on a deserted island. Unlike Robinson Crusoe, they quickly go wild instead of building a new little civilization.
* The Greene tribe in ''Non-Stop'' are familiar with the idea that they're living in a [[Generation Ship]], but they generally mock it, considering the ship to be all of existence.
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* The exiled brother and sister Ged encounters on a small island in [[Earthsea Trilogy|A Wizard of Earthsea]]. They were marooned on the island as small children, and having spent their whole lives there have "forgotten that there were other people in the world."
* ''The City of Ember'': The city {{spoiler|was built underground as a refuge from a nuclear apocalypse}}, but the instructions for escape were lost long ago, and now the city's supplies are running out.
* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
* In ''[[Being There]]'', mentally challenged Chance the Gardener knows no home aside from The Old Man's residence until he is middle-aged and his benefactor's death means he must leave it. He is aware of the outside world, but only through television.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "Random Thoughts", the trope is discussed by Seven Of Nine. She argues that the ship ''ought'' to seclude itself, in order to avoid the dangers of the surrounding civilizations.
* In one episode of ''[[Star Trek:
* In ''[[Lost]]'', the island usually works so that no one gets in and no one gets out. {{spoiler|This is because Jacob said so. In the final episode, Hugo takes over as the guardian of the island and changes the rules.}}
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS episode "It's a Good Life" takes place in a small town and its environs that were removed from the Earth by a young boy with [[Reality Warper]] powers.
** ''Possibly'' removed from the Earth. It's just as feasible that Anthony ''removed the Earth from around it''.
* ''[[
* [[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman TV Series]]: The amazons claim [[Hidden Elf Village|Paradise Island]] is this: the youngest of these immortals [[Lady Land|have never seen a man before]]. However, [[Plot Hole|Princess Diana recognizes a parachute, and the Queen can read Trevor’s english written documents without any problem]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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