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** There's mention in the book of a school named "after the President they shot" still standing.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Women in Gilead are divided into castes, reflected by the color of robes they wear. [[Grande Dame|Wives]] wear blue, [[Nature Adores a Virgin|Daughters]] wear white, [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Aunts]] wear brown, [[Feminine Women Can Cook|Marthas]] wear green, and Handmaids wear red. Econowives wear garish multi-color robes to show that they play multiple roles.
* [[Corrupt Church]]: Fundamentalist Christianity cranked up to the point where it does not even resemble Christianity anymore, and was explicitly compared in the book to the system of [[Iran]].
* [[Crapsack World]]: Pretty much so.
* [[Distant Finale]]: {{spoiler|After (quite a bit less than) 100 years Gilead collapses but the Gileadean civil war with dissident groups has exhausted the Western powers and formerly "3rd World" nations are now dominant (e.g. somehow ''Nunavut'' is now the academic centre of the world).}}
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