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The world in which the characters live in is [[Crapsack World|less than pleasant,]] to say in the least. [[
Or, on a more positive end, the world the characters live in is fine, but the characters are restless. Perhaps they are bored with their current life and want to find something better, or perhaps they are misfits in an otherwise nice world, and desire a place where they will have no worries.
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The Promised Land exists, and is probably a great place to live - if you could actually get there that is. Either the Promised Land can only be reached by those with money and/or power, or a barrier of some sort, either physical, political, or whatever prevents the characters from arriving to this place. In this case, getting there may be a driving force of the story, like in the other flavors, but the goal may be later discarded when reality sets in. Another take on this flavor is that the Promised Land is never really visited or even seen, but merely mentioned by the characters as they wistfully dream of making it there, but know deep down that they could never make it and continue on with their dreary lives. A variant of this is that the land is reachable, but at a great cost. Perhaps the character would have to sell his or her soul, or enslave him or herself to a cruel worker, or eat a thousand babies alive before they could even think about setting foot there. Regardless, the land is not reachable for common folk.
Can go hand in hand with [[Last Fertile Region]], and [[
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== Live-Action Television ==
* The planet Earth in ''[[Battlestar Galactica]].'' {{spoiler|The colonists eventually find Earth in the re-imagined series, but it is a burnt out wasteland, putting this trope in the cynical side. However, the trope swings over to the idealistic side, when they find another planet, with more biodiversity than any of the planets they originally came from, which they decide to call Earth in honor of the series-driven dream.}}
* Myth-shrouded Utopia in the ''[[
** Another ''[[
* ''[[Stargate SG 1|Stargate SG-1]]'' has an episode where Maybourne learns of a [[Promised Land]] and tricks SG-1 in to taking him to the gate that sends you there. Jack follows him through. Unfortunately for him, the message pointing him to the planet was millions of years old, and the [[Promised Land]] stopped existing at some point in the intervening millenia.
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