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== Anime and Manga ==
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* The U.N. was depicted this way in ''[[Left Behind]]'', which is why the [[Anti Christ]] went for a job as Secretary General. Hilariously, it's treated as though the United Nations has ''always'' been this powerful. (For why, see [[Conspiracy Theories]]).
* This is the Case in [[Daniel Keys Moran]]'s ''Tales of the Continuing Time'' cycle. The French have begun to dominate the UN, and the peacekeeping forces are now known and feared as ''peaceforcers''.
* In [[Charles Stross]]' ''[[The Eschaton Series|Eschaton]]'' series, the UN, consisting of most of the microstates of the [[Balkanize Me|balkanized]] post-[[The Singularity|Singularity]] Earth, is an interesting mix of "quite powerful" and "not very powerful at all": it mostly leaves local governments on Earth alone, but it has scores of agents tasked with enforcing the laws of the Eschaton--a far-future expression of the Singularity that flung human civilizations across space for reasons unclear, but which wants the laws of causality to be preserved at any cost. It also a lot of pull for the mythical association with [[Earth
** It should be noted that this UN is ''not'' the same organization, but rather a development of the Internet Engineering Task Force (yes) that took on the responsibilities and form of the UN after the post-Singularity Earth had settled down (i.e. suitably modified for a world of ''tens of thousands'' of states rather than 193).
* Larry Niven's ''[[Known Space]]'' has the UN develop into a planetary government.
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== Live Action TV ==
* The 2005 revival of ''[[
* Subverted by ''[[Babylon Five]]'': The UN wasn't turning into this fast enough for the big dogs of 22nd-century Earth, so they established the stronger Earth Alliance to replace it, and crushed the holdouts. Being [[The Federation]] in its most realistic form, it continues to have UN-ish elements, like preserving national states back on Earth.
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