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* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s short story ''[[Coventry]]'', the United States has used [[Applied Phlebotinum]] to put a force field wall around an area of the country. Because of the respect for human rights, it is the law that anyone may choose to go to Coventry rather than have to agree to psychological therapy for criminal or antisocial behavior. The protagonist, David MacKinnon, is [[Strawman Political|a romantic idealist who imagines a paradise]] without the noisy interfering big government getting in the way of rugged freedom lovers.

** The title comes from "to send someone to Coventry", a British idiom meaning to ostracize someone, usually by not talking to them. To be sent to Coventry is to be regarded as absent.

* Ayla is punished in this way at the end of ''[[Clan of the Cave Bear]]'' (and for a shorter time in the middle of the book).

* Comes up a lot in the ''[[Masters of Rome]]'' series.