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* The ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' novels have the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Which axis of morality and composition you see depends on why you're there in the first place.
**Manticore is a Parliamentary Kingdom and it's workings are obviously English. It's factions are recognizable and most such corruptions it has are either the normal sort you see in a Parliamentary system or fairly simple criminality. Most of it is kept under something resembling Rule of Law.
***Probably the worst thing a Manticoran faction has done was do a coup by legal hairsplitting(delaying the end to a war so they could enjoy power as they would without calling elections). This was combined with an absurd downsizing of the navy. There is no question it cost lives from a mixture of corruption and stupidity. But if you had proposed to any of them that they kill thousands of their fellow citizens for their own selfishness
* [[Gormenghast]] is sneaky, aristocratic, decadent, and ritual-choke. It is so grossly mismatched to the size of the country that to all intents and purposes the court ''is'' the nation-state!
* King Boniface's court in John Barnes's ''[[One for the Morning Glory]]'': a [[Fairy Tale]] court with a liberal admixture of a royal court as needed by the [[Rule Of Whimsy]].
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* ''[[The Tale of Genji]]'' is set at the Imperial Court of Heian Japan which features an Emperor; two or more ex-Emperors, each with his Empress and harem; Princes and princesses galore and rival noble families all jockeying for position and power. However, as a rule the characters are kept so busy managing their complex love lives that one wonders who - if anybody - is actually running the country.
** In real life, that exact question more or less brought on the age of the samurai and the Shogunate.
* A large portion of ''[[The Princess Bride (novel)|The Princess Bride]]'' takes place in the royal court of Florin - more than [[The Film of the Book]] would suggest.
* Vorbarr Sultana in [[Vorkosigan Saga]]. That's where counts and vor hang out. The place is full of [[Dances and Balls]], many a [[Fancy Dinner]], [[Big Fancy House|palaces,]] love affairs, politics, and a weird combination of Russian authoritarianism evolving into an almost British constitutional monarchy.
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