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* In ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]],'' Luna, both while it is "ruled" by a Lunar Authority which only expects grain exports from its citizens and lets them handle their own affairs otherwise, and during the period between freedom from the Lunar Authority and recognition by Earth.
* JC Denton in ''[[Deus Ex]]'' is moderately authoritarian at the beginning of the game, but he progresses into this. {{spoiler|He can be either very authoritarian or very libertarian depending on the [[Multiple Endings|ending you choose.]]}}
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* [[Hidden Elf Village|Galt's Gulch]] in ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' is a free-market anarchy. The world outside of it, on the other hand, is anything but.
* The planet Anares in ''The Dispossessed'' by Ursula K Le Guin is a libertarian socialist society where a state, government, prisons, and even money don't exist. People do jobs simply because they want to help keep things running and the only punishment that exists is social stigma.
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* [[Ken MacLeod]]'s Fall Revolution series gives us not one but two anarchist Utopias, although only one of them was Libertarian (the other was Communist).
** Technically the anarcho-communist utopia was just as libertarian as the free-market one in the original sense of the word "libertarian"; which was actually coined by an anarcho-communist all the way back in 1857.
* Carried to its logical conclusion in an early episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', when Springfield takes a self-help guru's message too far. Everyone only does what they want and waives any kind of responsibility. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* A∴A∴, the secret society beyond all secret societies in the ''[[Illuminatus]]''-trilogy believes in absolute freedom of thought and action. They very subtly influence the society in order to maximize individual freedoms, but they're crippled by their primary dogma that forbids them any direct interference with the normal society. Though their leader is old and wise enough to know that in the long term almost everything will work out, even if it means waiting for the civilization to collapse and rise again.
* Ron Swanson of ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' is a self-described Libertarian. In his own words, "My idea of a perfect government is one guy who sits in a small room at a desk, and the only thing he’s allowed to decide is who to nuke. The man is chosen based on some kind of IQ test, and maybe also a physical tournament, like a decathlon. And women are brought to him, maybe... when he desires them."
* [[The Culture]] of [[Iain Banks]]' novels is an interstellar post-scarcity anarchist society in which there is no government and no formal laws. Fashions, fads, customs and etiquette are the closest thing it has to them, and they play a big role in its citizens' lives (often simply to alleviate boredom). [http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm As Banks described in a newsgroup post]:
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