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* The [[Belgariad]] (and Mallorean) make the whole Tolnedran Empire is like this; the current ruling house and its supporters hold most government jobs. It's said that even the customs officers change after dynastic succession.
* A large portion of the population of Barrayar is certain that [[Vorkosigan Saga|Miles Vorkosigan]] only got his positions because of his father the Regent/Prime Minister or his foster brother the Emperor. They are mostly wrong. It ''was'' nepotism that got Miles into the Imperial Military Academy, despite him not meeting the physical requirements, and nepotism that ''kept'' him in the Imperial Service after the Kyril Island incident.
**This tendency in Barrayar was muted just before Mile's day by the fact that the Vor in charge were the [[HAD to Be Sharp|surviving]] leadership of a two decade insurgency against occupying forces. Those guys were bloodthirsty, stubborn, and retrograde about anything but innovative methods of violence. But they were not just riding family coattails.
* In the early ''Garrett, P.I.'' novels, the city watch is virtually useless, having degenerated into a sinecure for bureaucrats' freeloading nephews and so forth.
* Plays a significant role in the [[Honor Harrington]] universe.
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***Really this is dirtier then other examples. You expect people to be nice to their relations and anyway that is the entire point of aristocracy. Besides Manticorans do as has been said have the redeeming feature of getting blown up for [[Family Honor]]. Solarians are often not so much traditional nepotists as temporarily successful players of bureaucracy which often includes incestuous alliances with criminal syndicates who have enough blackmail on them to order them around when the time comes.
** The ultimate example is, of course, the Mesan Alignment: the leadership is {{spoiler|composed of clones}} or carefully chosen and selected/engineered children of other leaders.
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