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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 members of such have committed treason or blackmail, or on one notorious occasion attempted rape) has done was do a coup by legal hairsplitting(prolonging the signing of terms during a truce in 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, they would at least have probably been sincerely horrified at the idea. In any case Manticore has never been a police-state or anything like it unlike some of it's enemies.

***Probably the worst thing a Manticoran political faction(as such, though individual members of such have committed treason or blackmail, or on one notorious occasion attempted rape) has done was do a coup by legal hairsplitting(prolonging the signing of terms during a truce in 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, they would at least have probably been sincerely horrified at the idea. In any case Manticore has never been a police-state or anything like it unlike some of it's enemies. That is there are villainous Manticorans but Manticore has never been a villainous state.

* [[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]].