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Airstrip One

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Airstrip One	comment	So The Empire has conquered a number of unfortunate countries and crushed the citizens under the weight of oppression. But it just isn't enough for The Empire. They've got to rub their newfound authority in the subdued province's face. How best to humiliate them? Take away something they strongly value, something that symbolizes their very identity—their name! The Empire will show how evil they are by re-branding the area with a label and a number. It also adds to the overall military atmosphere of a piece, even though Real Life militaries' very reason for using codes rather than common place names is operational secrecy, and replacing the latter with the former for public use would be missing the point. Other evil rulers prefer to rename cities after themselves. Compare to Monument of Humiliation and Defeat. See also Please Select New City Name. For replacing people's names with numbers, see You Are Number 6.
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Airstrip One / int_19cf9150	comment	In Tales of the Hunger Games, the second incarnation of the Capitol manages to annex Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Isle of Man for about twelve years. They name the region "District Fourteen", before splitting them into multiple zones labelled after alphabetical characters. In Panem Reborn, the third incarnation of the Capitol also manages to capture the entire country of France and renames it to "District Fifteen". They also split the country into four sectors labelled A-D, each of them focusing on a specific product like their continental counterparts.
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Airstrip One / int_1beda93b	comment	4U City from Sluggy Freelance was founded by Hereti-Corp. 4U, by the way, is a reference to both "For You" and the four initials of their new public slogan.
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Airstrip One / int_33dd1d90	comment	Half-Life 2 takes place in a coastal city in Eastern Europe (as evidenced by the architecture and abundance of Cyrillic script), known only as City 17. A City 14 is also mentioned by a passer-by, and several more are seen on a train station timetable.
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Airstrip One / int_3c369743	comment	Captain Britain: The Captain Britain Corps - a gathering of the counterparts of Captain Britain from every alternate version of Earth - includes a Captain Airstrip-One who seems to hail from a world very similar to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Airstrip One / int_4505668c	comment	In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the "North American Directorate" appears to have replaced the states with "Managerial Areas".
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Airstrip One / int_49a87cb3	comment	Midgar's sectors in Final Fantasy VII. Jesse mentions that the areas on the ground used to have real names
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Airstrip One / int_5a48e12b	comment	XCOM: Chimera Squad is set in a metropolis designated as City 31 five years after Earth was successfully retaken from the Elders, the alien overlords that gave the city this name. It has since become a symbol of peace and coexistence between humans and the various alien slave races left behind by the Elders after their defeat, but for some reason, its new inhabitants still haven't come up with/agreed on a proper name yet.
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Airstrip One / int_5cd1aa89	comment	Nineteen Eighty-Four has the entire United Kingdom given the pitiful title of "Airstrip One," a reference to the Americans referring to it as "an unsinkable aircraft carrier" during World War II when the Nazis had overrun most of continental Europe.
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Airstrip One / int_5e839978	comment	Except Seoul was not exactly a new name for the city. The word Seoul, meaning "capital" in Korean, is believed to have come from "Sorabeol," the capital of the ancient/medieval kingdom of Shilla that unified Korean peninsula in 7th century—that city is now known as Gyeongju, which, incidentally, also means "the capital (province/district)." The official name Gyeongseong for Seoul precedes Japanese annexation of Korea by at least a few decades and Koreans generically called the city Seoul for centuries prior because it was "the capital city." The tradition of calling capital cities "The capital" in some form is fairly common in Asia: Beijing means the "Northern capital" and Nanjing means the "Southern capital" in Mandarin—and other cities have been called Northern and Southern capitals (as well as Eastern and Western capitals) before by different dynasties of China—which can confuse people reading old Chinese literature: the "Northern Capital" of the Song Dynasty is now called Daming (also the secondary name at that time as well), some distance to the southwest of modern day Beijing: badly translated versions of Water Margin can confuse people, for example, via references to oddly placed "Beijing."). Kyoto means "capital city" and Tokyo means "Eastern capital" in Japanese. Hanoi was also known as Tonkin in Vietnamese (which remains as an Artifact Title for certain place names, such as Gulf of Tonkin), meaning "Eastern capital." All these may qualify as examples of this trope.
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Airstrip One / int_63230cb	comment	Dragon Ball Z Abridged plays this for laughs, with the reveal that Freeza doesn't even bother listing the planets he conquers in sequential order, and instead just shouts out random numbers when prompted.
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Airstrip One / int_69ccce0e	comment	In Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here, when Buzz Windrip of the fascist Corpo Party takes over the United States, he abolishes the old 48 states and their elected governments, and divides America into eight provinces, each province divided into numbered districts, each district divided into lettered counties, each unit ruled by a commissioner appointed by himself. Even the hostile newspaper editor Doremus Jessup is forced to admit these new administrative divisions make a certain amount of sense.
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Airstrip One / int_6f48e446	comment	By the time of Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars in 2047, the spread of Tiberium across the planet has led to the collapse of all the world's nation-states, so the Global Defense Initiative and Brotherhood of Nod are the only factions able to provide any sort of governance. There are presumably administrative regions within the groups' respective territories, but for the most part the world is categorized based upon the degree of Tiberium contamination. GDI-controlled "Blue" zones have sparse if any uncontained Tiberium, and enjoy the highest standards of living. "Yellow" zones, home to Nod and outcast groups like the mutant Forgotten, are arid badlands with an obvious Tiberium presence. "Red" zones are more or less xenoformed hellscapes of mutagenic alien crystals, and extremely hostile to terrestrial life. Zones are separated both by borders with other colors and by the oceans, so each piece is often referred to by a letter-number code for brevity — for example, the Blue Zone that stretches across the Eastern Seaboard of the United States is B-2, while the Red Zone that takes up much of the Amazon Desert is R-6.
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Airstrip One / int_745711f9	comment	In Look to the West, this is how the Societist Combine renames its territories, in keeping with the Societist beliefs that acknowledging unique characteristics of different areas leads to division and war. Each zone is numbered, and each city has a "name" of the style ZonexUrby. They have actually worked out Zone and Urb numbers for the entire world, but the nationalistically blinded people outside the Combine stubbornly refuse to use them.
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Airstrip One / int_774aac31	comment	District 9 has the eponymous ghetto where the aliens are forced to live. In the epilogue it's shown that they've been moved to (larger and nicer, but still segregated) District 10, but it's never made clear exactly what the districts are or where the first eight are. It can be assumed that the whole city, assuming the human parts, is divided into administrative districts, but the alien area is the only one referred to by just its number. District 9 is District 6 turned upside down; District 6 was a colored residential area in Cape Town, where "coloured" residents were moved after being forced from their homes. The squalid conditions shown in the film are not exaggerated.
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Airstrip One / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: When gems tried to colonize Earth, they divided it into numbered "Facets", which becomes part of the serial number for any gem made there (e.g. the Kindergarten Amethyst was made in is located in Facet 5, so she's "Facet 5 Cut-8XM"). The planet in whole is still called "Earth".
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Airstrip One / int_834197b2	comment	In the Horus Heresy novels the planets conquered by humanity during the great crusade have their original names replaced by a numeric designation based on the code number of the fleet that conquered it, followed by a number that shows which order it was conquered in. Thus the 10th planet conquered by the 25th fleet is known as 25-10. These planets are then given proper Imperial names later.
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Airstrip One / int_836fc0f1	comment	Aperture Science 3007 Colony and Land of Life and No Death (theoretically Lithuania and Poland) from Portal: The 4th Millennium franchise. Even though most other modern countries are referred to by their actual names. The author probably just hated his own home country that much.
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Airstrip One / int_8989d113	comment	Ixia's Military Districts (MD-1 through MD-8) in Maria Snyder's Ixia and Sitia books. The Commander isn't actually evil though, just a military man who hates any show of extravagance relating to the royal family he ousted.
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Airstrip One / int_a15c03fd	comment	Starfinder features the militaristic vesk, a Proud Warrior Race. They first conquered their homeworld, which was renamed Vesk Prime. Then they expanded outward in their solar system, and each world was renamed Vesk X, with X being its order out from their sun. The original inhabitants of these worlds had ... mixed reactions to this, although official responses are either 'yes sir' or 'yes ma'am', given vesk tendencies.
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Airstrip One / int_a4a6b86a	comment	In Code Geass, the various lands conquered by the Holy Britannian Empire are identified by numbers. Japan is renamed "Area 11." Furthermore, the people themselves are renamed, so, for example, the people of Japan are called "Elevens." Full citizens of Britannia also use "Numbers" as shorthand for everyone from the Areas.
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Airstrip One / int_be03a5ee	comment	In Left Behind, the ten regional global districts under the control of the subpotentates were originally called United [Regional Area] States, but eventually were just referred to by Nicolae Carpathia and his Global Community top brass by their regional codes.
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Airstrip One / int_c1bf9b70	comment	In Panem Reborn, the third incarnation of the Capitol also manages to capture the entire country of France and renames it to "District Fifteen". They also split the country into four sectors labelled A-D, each of them focusing on a specific product like their continental counterparts.
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Airstrip One / int_c2297a9c	comment	In Judge Dredd there is Mega-City 1, Luna-City 1, East Meg 1 and East Meg 2. There used to be Mega Cities 2 and 3 as well, but Dredd nuked Mega-City 2, and Mega-City 3 broke away from the union following the Atomic Wars, becoming Texas City instead. Other nations include Euro Cit, Pan Africa, Murphyville and Brit Cit. Dredd also nuked about half the world that time in order to combat a Zombie Apocalypse. East Meg 1 no longer exists either, thanks to Dredd, who nuked it in a separate incident.
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Airstrip One / int_c4771251	comment	In Mistborn: The Original Trilogy, regions conquered by the Lord Ruler get renamed after their location relative to the capital, Luthadel and its surrounding areas, the "Central Dominance" - the four main surrounding "Dominances" (provinces) are named for the four cardinal directions, while those farther away are given names to suggest their distance ("Farmost Dominance", "Remote Dominance"). Most have been subdued so long the people no longer remember the names of the nations that were once there. The only exception is the Terris Dominance, which bears the name of the region's original nation for reasons no one quite understands. It's because the Lord Ruler was originally a Terrisman. Even then, it's a Red Herring—there's an important magical nexus located in the ancient Terris lands, but those lands are actually under the capital. The Terris Dominance are simply a random area where he put the Terris.
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Airstrip One / int_d31cdea	comment	In The Hunger Games, the Capitol has renamed all of the subdued areas Districts 1-13 and segregated them by industry.
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Airstrip One / int_d5e9cf36	comment	XCOM 2 is set twenty years after a successful Alien Invasion, and the ADVENT Administration that now rules Earth has dissolved the nations of the "Old World" in favor of sixteen administrative regions. They're alternately referred to by their Sector number, their formal name (the Chilean Controlled District, the Eastern European Ward, the West Asian Corridor, etc.), or briefer descriptions like the New Arctic or East Africa. XCOM wearing old-world flags on their armor is thus another sign of defiance.
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Airstrip One / int_dc48bcf	comment	Sometimes professional wrestlers bring these up if they want to pander to a crowd in their home town. Rey Mysterio Jr's famous '619' finisher was named after the area where he grew up (San Diego) and Montel Vontavious Porter's less famous jumping reverse STO finisher was for a time named the '305' (after Miami).
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Airstrip One / int_e6267766	comment	In Star Wars Legends, the Empire officially renamed planet Coruscant "Imperial Center" shortly after the end of the Clone Wars, though plenty of people still refer to it by its original name.
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Airstrip One / int_ec28245c	comment	Frieza in Dragon Ball Z named all the planets he conquered "Planet Frieza #(insert number here)"
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Airstrip One / int_fd74a791	comment	In the 31st century as depicted in the Doctor Who New Adventures, the Earth Empire has renamed all Earth's cities "Spaceports". Original Sin is mostly set in Spaceport 5 Overcity, which seems to be London.
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