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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 political faction(as such, though individual
* [[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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