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Cosy Catastrophe

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Cosy Catastrophe	comment	"Cosy Catastrophe" is a term coined by Brian Aldiss.note To dismiss the work of fellow British Sci-Fi icon John Wyndham, particularly The Day of the Triffids. The book doesn't fit the trope, but the term has stuck none the less. The End of the World as We Know It has arrived and... our heroes feel fine. Sure, it's a pity for all those billions who just perished at the hands of super-plague/aliens/nuclear war. But for our safe, middle-class heroes, it means a chance to quit their day job, steal expensive cars without feeling guilty (or fearing arrest), sleep in a five-star hotel for free, and relax while the world falls apart around them. Maybe things aren't quite as good as they were in The Beforetimes, but all in all, life is still enjoyable. Especially if you brought your dog. Maybe they'll eventually band together to recreate a humble yet sustainable pretechnological society. Maybe, if they're of mixed genders, they'll see it as their duty to repopulate the species (wink, wink). Maybe they'll just learn to accept the extinction of the human race with quiet dignity. Either way, the end of the world shouldn't be the ... end of the world, so to speak. Expect Arcadia since there's not as much pollution and construction. Many have noted that the popularity of the Zombie Apocalypse genre in media is probably in part due to this trope. To some people's sensibilities, a future in which you may be prey to flesh-hungry ghouls is still worth it if you don't have to face all of the pressures and responsibilities of modern life anymore. In many ways, it makes life more interesting. A high form of Escapism, as who wouldn't want to drop all the pressures of modern life, with the odd chance to prove your bravery and resilience? Compare with Scavenger World, After the End. Contrast Go Mad from the Apocalypse and The Apunkalypse. Usually goes hand in hand with Apocalyptic Logistics. See also Disaster Democracy and Angst? What Angst?. Not to be confused with Cozy Voice for Catastrophes. Examples
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_102676ff	comment	In Primordia (2012), humanity was wiped entirely thousands of years ago. The robots living here (descended by the ones humans left behind) continue about their simplistic lives, blissfully unaware that the world isn't supposed to look like a desert where the sun rarely shines. They show little understanding of the state the world is in, acting almost like children that don't know better. Even the robots living in Metropol, who are watched and controlled by a cruel AI that has gone insane, seem barely aware of their situation, simply puttering about like nothing is happening. The ones who do understand are either exiled, in hiding, Obfuscating Stupidity, or dead.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_10397d97	comment	Zig-zagged in Ambience: A Fleet Symphony. On one end there are places like Inner Chicago that were not hit by the nukes and are barely changed from pre-war. On the other end are bombed out, irradiated and abandoned places like Houston or Atlantic City. Then there're places that are anywhere in between.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_1040c9e2	comment	Juan in a Million: not only do the power plants keep chugging, the Internet is still up!
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_1099a6ac	comment	Although not the end of the world, the end of Fight Club fits this description in a sense. In fact, the entire point is to create this, to break everything down and start over new.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_11cb151	comment	Another Wyndham book with this theme is The Kraken Wakes, in which the Earth's seas are colonized by unseen aliens; the aliens eventually melt the polar icecaps, causing world-wide flooding.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_17c40956	comment	Dark Chronicle, Palm Brinks definitely qualifies for this, rest of the world is heavily crippled population wise due to Emperor Griffin wiping away Origin Points while the city and its residents are living quite peaceful lives behind the walls due to the Red Atlamillia being in the town. It is even mentioned early on as Flotsam will threaten to disclose what happened outside to the populace of Palm Brinks if the mayor does not turn up results in finding the stone.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_191e1310	comment	The world of Delicatessen had a relatively cozy catastrophe, as the mail is still delivered, everyone's basically middle class, and while people are eaten (according to set rules), life goes on pretty a-ok.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_1973b10a	comment	Sonic Unleashed begins with the Earth getting fractured and split into several pieces by an Eldritch Abomination. Despite such an apocalyptic event, all the cities and locales you visit across the world don't seem any worse for wear.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_1b9ff200	comment	IO: Despite the atmosphere being so toxic it has forced most of humanity off-world, Sam lives a rather cosy life due to her home (an astronomical observatory on a mountain plateau) being located safely at higher elevations above the toxic atmosphere. She has her own greenhouse with plenty of vegetables, electricity, entertainment and even a shower. Even at the end itâ€™s implied Sam and her child (who have both developed immunity to the toxic atmosphere) may be the last humans on earth due to the Homeworld Evacuation, leaving little to zero threat from other people.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_1be9854a	comment	Despite having barely survived an apocalyptic war at some point, the world in Sound of the Sky is surprisingly doing well for itself. Sure there's the possibility that the Earth's dying but life had moved on.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_1c334568	comment	The Walking Dead is most definitely not an example at the start and for most of the story, but the Distant Finale brings it into this trope. After the initial decade or two of anarchy caused by the Zombie Apocalypse, everything starts to gradually settle down as people get used to the new normal; towns and governments are being reestablished, zombies are dying off (either from naturally decaying or being easily hunted down by humans that are now aware of their weaknesses), and infrastructure is slowly building back up. The world hasn't quite gotten back to its pre-apocalypse level yet, but it's getting there.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_1c4cf6	comment	Survivors: The BBC series has a virus (according to the title sequence, created in China) spreading around the world. The mostly white, mostly middle-class survivors quickly band together and start creating small self-sustainable farming operations, and go travelling about Britain, meeting other survivors and trying to help them and set up communications and even establish some new sort of order. And everyone still drinks tea every now and then, too.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_1d8b9d93	comment	In an interview about his sequel The Night of the Triffids, Simon Clark said he deliberately exaggerated the trope; civilization has collapsed, but there's still afternoon tea.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_203fc617	comment	The Talos Principle: While the end of world has come and gone, records encountered during the course of the game indicates it was not the horrifying event it could have been. Humanity's death was slow, but fairly painless, with much of the world able to go on as normal even as the population dwindled. We even had time to create a thorough record of our culture and construct an heir apparent to inherit the world and preserve our legacy.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild takes place in what's left of Hyrule 100 years after Calamity Ganon destroyed it; despite this, life has gone on as usual for the populace. Many of the villages Link visits are thriving (and even some of the ones directly threatened by the Divine Beasts are doing well for themselves), people travel at any time despite the threat of monsters along the roads, and goods are still being produced and sold (with some people even expanding their business). This is the result of Zelda sealing Calamity Ganon in Hyrule Castle, allowing the places that weren't destroyed in the initial catastrophe to survive and recover, and the monsters that should have been rampaging the countryside are without leadership and keep to themselves, only attacking anyone foolish enough to venture into their territory. By the time the game starts, however, there's a very real threat of Ganon breaking free and finishing what he started.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_23e7fdf0	comment	Metal Saga of the Metal Max series is basically an excuse to find tanks and upgrade them with future weaponry to destroy goofy monsters. The premise is that a rogue A.I. supercomputer had destroyed the world except for isolated cities. However mighty soldiers and hunters in tanks have ensured that the surviving cities are thriving and developing, to the point where there's a luxury train linking the cities. It gets A LOT WORSE though in later games.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_24931627	comment	Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed (set roughly in the same universe) take place after two new World Wars (III and IV) that devastated the planet and killed a pretty huge chunk of humanity... but its been long enough since that human civilization has rebuilt and there have been a lot of great technological advances. The world is far from perfect, but if it weren't explicitly brought up, you'd never guess that this is a version of history where Tokyo and several other major cities got nuked out into oblivion and the United States collapsed into three nations, all mere decades ago. Interestingly, the post-apocalyptic nature of the setting is a lot more apparent in Appleseed despite it being set chronologically later, suggesting that society started going properly downhill between series.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_278fb778	comment	Damnation Alley has a group of USAF personell trek across a ruined United States to investigate a radio signal from Albany, New York. When they reach their destination, the area is surprisingly intact, with green fields and friendly locals.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_291e9857	comment	Dark Souls is an odd example. The world is undoubtedly a Crapsack World, with humans cursed to remain immortal, insane undead, horrible creatures all over the land, and the last vestiges of civilization existing only in small pockets. However, for as bad as it is, it's implied that it used to be worse. The worst of the apocalypse has passed, and now all that's left is to either try to extend the time until the world truly fades away, or to sit back and watch as the last flames die out. For all the horror in the world, it's an undoubtedly quiet, melancholic, at times bittersweet place; its apocalypse is a gentle one. The arguable good ending of Dark Souls III is the End of Fire, in which you intentionally snuff out the last embers of the First Flame (the world's effective power source), allowing the world to finally come to its true end, thus ending the cycle and allowing new life to one day flourish again.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_295048d5	comment	In Bloodborne, this is both invoked and subverted. Some houses contain sounds of merriment, as Yharnamites attempt to party through the night of the Hunt. Judging from the screams, insane laughter, and eventual silence that will come from the houses later in the story, it does not end well for the people inside of them.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_29ee6594	comment	In â€œUntil the Night Turnsâ€� by Lord Huron the main character stays up all night partying with their girlfriend happily waiting for the end of the world at sunrise.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_2af8d0bc	comment	Yuki Yuna is a Hero takes place on something of a post-apocalyptic Earth where the section of Japan the girls live on is the only surviving area. Aside from the Shinju-sama worship, everything is pretty normal.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_2d01f8dc	comment	Beavis and Butt-Head mistake an evacuation for the apocalypse in one episode. Naturally, rather than being horrified, they delight in how everything is now free and all the toilets in town are available to them.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_2d9e1054	comment	Broadly the case for people in Carol and the End of the World. With months left before a rogue planet impacts Earth, almost everyone has quit their jobs and started trying to do all the things they'd always wanted to do, and generally people appear to be happy, or at least making the attempt to be happy. Uniformed soldiers run the grocery stores and are presumably behind the electricity and water staying on, while other stores are looted and left abandoned or taken over for other purposes. One of Carol's elderly parents was tended by a live-in nurse who entered a happy threesome with both parents and continues to give care. Some cracks are showing by the end of the miniseries. Carol joined an ordinary workplace called "The Distraction" that gave its employees a sense of normalcy and purpose in an anonymous setting, but as she starts making friends (and they start making friends) the stress and pain of knowing they'll soon, inevitably lose those friends sometimes causes spontaneous fits of tears during the work day.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_3148086e	comment	Deconstructed on Years and Years. The fact that the Lyons family's lives aren't too badly affected by the growing instability of the world means that they can safely go on ignoring it until it finally starts to affect them directly.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_31d9b034	comment	Into the Forest: Two sisters 20 Minutes into the Future are left to fend for themselves when their father dies after a national blackout has brought about the collapse of society and regressed technology back to pre-industrial revolution levels. However for the most part they are able to manage just fine in their idyllic secluded forest home and are even able to grow and hunt their own food.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_32788d4a	comment	The United States in Death Road to Canada has completely collapsed due to a zombie apocalypse, reducing food to the only accepted currency. Despite that, your survivors seem more concerned with recharging their portable games or keeping up their workout regimen than struggling to survive. Trader camps often have merchants who don't seem to be taking the zombies seriously, such as an anime trader who sells junk, or the strength trainer who acts like an energetic 80's workout instructor. Finally, the reason your characters started their long journey to Canada was because the safehouse got boring.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_37242986	comment	Silent Night (2021): This gets deconstructed, the catastrophe itself is made rather cosy when a group of friends gather for a final Christmas party however one of the children, Art, rebels against it.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_3b158fca	comment	In Z for Zachariah, after a nuclear war a woman named Ann has been for the most part comfortably surviving alone with her dog for several years on her familyâ€™s farm in a valley sheltered from the nuclear fallout. After the arrival of another surviver named Loomis they are able to repair a disused tractor and generator and he even proposes that they could use the water from an irradiated waterfall as a source of hydroelectric power.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_408937d5	comment	Michael decides on Waterworld, because the survivors in other scenarios spend their time trying to recreate the society they left behind and failing, whereas most of the characters of Waterworld have already accepted and adapted to the world. He also claims that the higher altitude would actually be a health benefit.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_414f27c2	comment	In Twelve Hundred Ghosts zombies and vampires are mentioned a few times, but are never brought up again, and the story continues as normal.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_4272dc3e	comment	On the Beach, a 1957 novel (written by Nevil Shute), The Film of the Book (made in 1959, directed by Stanley Kramer), and a made-for-television movie based on the book (made in 2000) each handle the story slightly differently, although the plot remains that of a Cozy Catastrophe. Nuclear war has devastated the whole world, except for Australia. The winds will bring the radioactivity soon enough, but until then, life goes on largely as normal. "On the Beach" is a special case. Depending on the reader, it may either be this trope played dead straight, or it may be a psychologically-horrifying subversion: it takes place in a world decimated from nuclear warfare. The northern hemisphere barely exists anymore, but in Southern Australia the book's protagonists are drinking tea and waiting calmly for the fallout to reach them, knowing that when it does, virtually all life on earth will be destroyed. The 1959 movie focuses on the captain of an American sub that was at sea in the Pacific during the war. The sub makes its way to Melbourne, and a romance ensues. With the sub commander played by Gregory Peck, a nuclear scientist played by Fred Astaire, and Peck's Australian love interest played by Ava Gardner, how can their behavior be anything but civilized, gracious and dignified? The 2000 made for TV movie has a lot more conflict and angst than either the earlier movie or the book, but much of that is due to the trend toward Darker and Edgier that was in full swing when it was made. So the end is nearer, the American sub commander (Armand Assante) is more abrasive, the Australians in general are less welcoming, and the Australian Love Interest (Rachel Ward) and the scientist (Bryan Brown) are ex-lovers.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_43680405	comment	The Girl Who Owned a City, a children's novel, where The Plague wiped out everyone on Earth over the age of twelve (in two weeks' time...). The novel's suburban children get on quite well in this curiously clean, decay-free world. Or at least they do once the novel's heroine steps in and teaches them.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_4626f8de	comment	The Protect and Survive films and leaflets produced by the British government in the early 1980s seemed to imply that this would be the outcome of a nuclear conflict. Sure, you'd have to stay inside for a couple of weeks, but after that everything would be just fine and dandy. Threads and When the Wind Blows (see Comic Books, above) were produced in response.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_467c89f7	comment	Super Dimension Fortress Macross: The Earth gets attacked, bombed, and invaded several times over, with increasingly devastating damage to the population. But that doesn't stop everyone from managing to continue to live happy, completely normal lives with all the power and facilities needed to not only keep going on as usual, but to rebuild everything back virtually overnight. Even on the ship when people struggle to survive on military rations, they somehow manage to continue having a successful restaurant in space. Lord knows where they found the ingredients.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_47d04bbc	comment	The Year of the Cloud sees the main characters riding out the apocalyptic transformation of the world's water into a thick gel aboard a rich couple's yacht supplied with copious amounts of booze.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_48cec739	comment	Girls' Last Tour has Chito and Yuuri surviving the collapse of civilization after an Unspecified Apocalypse a century earlier. They're surprisingly optimistic about traveling their dying world where civilization has long collapsed, humanity's numbers are too low to repopulate, and most life has vanished. Each day is the same, with them searching for food, supplies, and shelter. All in all, they seem content with life as they spend it Walking the Earth, simply living day to day.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_4fd6a2e6	comment	Under Heaven: The real life An Shi rebellion led to the death of about 16 to 36 million people, lasted 8 years, and ended one of China's golden ages. Not that you'll notice this from the book looking at the experiences of Shen Tai, to whom the war appeared to be more of a nuisance than anything else. The fact was lampshaded in-story, noting that the Shen family were farsighted enough to prepare for dealing with the war and that they were fortunate in that the family compound was on the opposite side of the country from the front lines.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_5327d4b	comment	In At the Edge of Lasg'len, a Synthetic Plague wipes out 90 percent of humanity in 2037. The Elves of what remains in Eryn Lasgalen receive warning 20 years in advance, so they and the residents of two Irish villages who know of their existence are able to plan accordingly. They have time to learn to farm with horse-powered machinery, and are able to stock up on food and medical necessities. They warn Galway a few months before the plague, so it survives mainly by evacuating until the disease has burnt out. Iceland survives wholesale due to sheer luck: a volcano erupts not long before the plague is released, so no planes can go in or out. They're able to trade and support one another, so no one goes hungry and people can get basic medical care in Ireland. Iceland still has fully-functional hospitals, so anyone needing non-emergency complex surgery can be sent there. Over the years, they make contact with other small isolated societies, most of which are rescued by the Russian Cruiser Aurora, which went out to sea when the plague reached Russia, and pretty much stayed there for the next six years.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_53a0bd32	comment	Daniel likes The Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last", as he is an introvert and enjoys the thought of being alone to read. Even the whole "broken glasses" Twist Ending doesn't bug him, as there are books on tape now. He changes his answer to one were there would be at least some other survivors when he realizes that he will never learn how Game of Thrones ends if George R. R. Martin dies.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_58fc1f8c	comment	Episode 4 of Space☆Dandy results in the entire universe and every last life form (including robots and narrators) becoming zombified. Unlife continues on as normal for everyone and there is no more wars, sickness, or discrimination, though films from George Romero become obscenely popular.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_5913112d	comment	Two nerdy college kids do pretty well during governmental collapse in Noise.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_5921531c	comment	Invoked in Persona 5, where Shido's Palace is a luxury cruise ship where the wealthy elite live in decadence while sailing through the sunken ruins that are all that remains of Japan.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas might even count as a subversion for some of the escapist aspects. Living in the NCR or New Vegas means you'll have to face a lot of the same trials you face in real lifeâ€”paying bills, holding down a job, and so forth. It might not be as fast-paced as today, but it'd be comparable to the early 20th century.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_5bdaa980	comment	Empire of the Sun contains an interlude during which the abandoned schoolboy Jamie fends for himself amid the chaos of the Japanese invasion, foraging from ladders and riding his bike around the dining room. Averted, in that it abruptly transitions into his meeting with Basie, followed by internment by the Japanese.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_5f476c9f	comment	Harda Horda, being an anthology, contains few different examples: Rail Station Attendant plays with the concept. The world went obviously through all kinds of shit - wars, a pandemic, climate change, extinction of species, depletion of many resources and oil - while Japan itself is a pale shadow of what it was (even in a purely geographical sense), but there was no instant cataclysm or sudden crash. Instead, it was an ebb and flow of events that reshaped the world within the lifetime of the main character, with world and humanity adjusting and continuing as usual each time. So while the story is set After the End, it is firmly A World Half Full, with things being currently on the improving trend and the main character living a perfectly mundane life as a railway worker. Anywhere But the Head is a Black Comedy (bordering on Slapstick) take on a Zombie Apocalypse, with the main character just unwilling to fight with zombies and instead just messing with them. However, The Virus is perfectly curable with even the most basic anti-fungal medicine, and, probably more importantly, the main character not only Slept Through the Apocalypse, but also through the evacuation. The population at large is safe and sound, the government and military are both doing just fine, and the only reason why her town is desolated is because everyone not in the terminal stage of Zombie Infectee was simply evacuated - which is also why there are only a handful of zombies around. On top of it all, the zombies are portrayed as completely ineffective and even hapless, being incredibly easy to deal with even with non-lethal methods. They Don't Watch From Above takes place in a Flooded Future World, with sea level rising by about 130-150 metres. However, excluding the initial panic period and the relocation of people from now-sunk shorelines, the world just goes on as if nothing happened. The story itself is set half a century after the water has already stopped rising, so the main character has a hard time grasping how it's in any way bad or weird.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_5fa8e894	comment	In Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy, 2014 was the year that cancer and the common cold were cured. Unfortunately the cure lead to a virus-based zombie plague. The good news is that the USA was able to beat back the zombies in their part of the world, leading to zombies regularly culled by gov't kill teams until they're down to manageable sizes. Newsflesh takes place in 2039 and despite the zombie plague, the country's technological infrastructure was barely damaged, this means that their technology (especially smart homes, internet infrastructure and biotech) continues to develop and improve.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder had a horrible catastrophe 10,000 years ago as part of its backstory; a giant asteroid fell, destroyed an entire continent, and the resulting dust blocked out the sun for a thousand years. Empires crumbled, mass extinctions occurred, actual gods perished, and civilization as a whole was destroyed...except in Nidal. The people there made a deal with the god Zon Kuthon, who provided for them in return for their devotion, giving them food and shelter. Even now with things recovered, Nidal is basically the oldest civilization in the world, the only one that can trace its roots all the way back to before the disaster, and has knowledge and traditions dating from that time. The downside to getting such a Cozy Catastrophe? Zon Kuthon is the god of pain and darkness, and to date Nidal is under his thumb.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_68ff28c9	comment	Both Eddie and Laura quite enjoy the nightmarish hellscape that is Silent Hill 2. Eddie, a once heavily bullied victim is now having the time of his life taking his anger out on the monsters and eventually James, while Laura, being a completely innocent child, isn't being judged by the town and thus only sees a completely normal monster-free town.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3, Allistair Tenpenny lives (along with those who can afford it) in a giant fancy hotel in the middle of a Crapsack World resulting from the Capital Wasteland being bombed more heavily than other parts of the country.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4: While a lot of the Commonwealth isn't great, life in Diamond City is actually pretty good. There's a farm in the outfield supplying crops, a butcher supplying fresh meat, fresh water, a functional schoolhouse, and a few permanent stores as well as a pretty constant stream of traders. The city even has a barber, private detective, radio station, upscale restaurant, newspaper, and plastic surgeon. The only downside to living in Diamond City is the constant threat of the Institute and their synths, but even then, the so-called "War for the Commonwealth" barely touches its largest settlement. Depending on how much the player decides to work on settlement building, the Commonwealth can be transformed from a society barely scraping along to a region with a dozen booming metropolises and interconnected trade routes.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_6e939b21	comment	The setting-defining event of Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine is that the sun went out (more specifically, she was shot down by an arrow) and the world collapsed into a metaphysical Primordial Chaos. Then a new sun rose in the place of the old and most people picked themselves back up and went on with their lives. Just how big a deal this is depends entirely on the campaign.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_71434aed	comment	In OneShot, the sun died a long time ago and the rest of the world will eventually suffer the same fate, but people and robots still have to go about their lives. The residents of this world live out each day with the hope that a messiah will come and restore the sun to their world.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_73a9c933	comment	Katie wants The Walking Dead instead, as the monsters in I Am Legend were sentient beings who could be cured, but a Zombie Apocalypse means guilt-free destruction as your victims are already dead.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild takes place in what's left of Hyrule 100 years after Calamity Ganon destroyed it; despite this, life has gone on as usual for the populace. Many of the villages Link visits are thriving (and even some of the ones directly threatened by the Divine Beasts are doing well for themselves), people travel at any time despite the threat of monsters along the roads, and goods are still being produced and sold (with some people even expanding their business). This is the result of Zelda sealing Calamity Ganon in Hyrule Castle, allowing the places that weren't destroyed in the initial catastrophe to survive and recover, and the monsters that should have been rampaging the countryside are without leadership and keep to themselves, only attacking anyone foolish enough to venture into their territory. By the time the game starts, however, there's a very real threat of Ganon breaking free and finishing what he started. Zigzagged in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Demon King Ganondorf's reawakening leads to the "Upheaval", where Hyrule Castle is lifted into the air, chunks of long-forgotten Sky Islands crash to the surface, and Chasms leading to the dangerous Depths open up. Yet a surprisingly large number of Hyruleans go about their lives without worrying about any of this. The Zonai Survey Team view the fallen Sky Island chunks as an opportunity to study more about the Zonai. Kakariko Village gets a particularly large number of such chunks strewn about the place, yet rather than react with panic, Chief Paya decides to let tourists come look at the fallen ruins. With all that said, other settlements do suffer pretty badly in the aftermath of the Upheaval. Lurelin Village gets razed by pirates, Rito Village gets covered in an endless blizzard that keeps them from growing crops, Zora's Domain gets doused with a poisonous sludge, and the Gerudo struggle with both a sand shroud that blocks the sun as well as a swarm of attacking Gibdos.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_7670db44	comment	Deconstructed in Ghosts of Evangelion. When Shinji and Asuka were the only humans left alive, they scavenged freely the ruins to find food. But when Shinji took a cello from a music store, Asuka pointed out he was stealing, and maybe the owner would return to the real world and find he was missing a cello.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_76dc8764	comment	The Tribe: A genetically-engineered virus wipes out all the adults and quite a lot of the children in the world over some indeterminate timescale, but apart from some low-level fighting (the survivors are, after all, children), life continues. The children first scavenge what remains, and then return to farming to survive in small tribes dotted throughout the city and countryside. They seem able to recreate society to a roughly mid-20th century level (some machinery, electricity, computers/TVs) though a bit patchy in places.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_77e43f2d	comment	1983: Doomsday deconstructs and plays with this trope. South America, Australia-New Zealand and the Alpine countries managed to escape the nuclear holocaust (almost) unscathed. And while they do fare remarkably well, there were still some rather harsh moments, involving food shortages, refugees and mass unrest.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_7a354cfa	comment	In The Midnight Sky, Dr. Augustine Lofthouse is a terminal Sole Surviving Scientist living relatively comfortably at an isolated research base in the Arctic after the majority of the earth is covered by a cloud of radiation because of a mysterious apocalyptic disaster known as â€œthe eventâ€�.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_7d3de191	comment	On a planet-sized level in Shepard's R&R. The Serenity system, home of the Ponies, was spared from the horror that was the Reaper War. Now that the galaxy is decimated from the conflict, the bountiful resources of the Serenity system plus the amazing magical abilities of the ponies are something the Council absolutely must acquire to prevent galactic collapse, so they send Commander Shepard to secure their aid.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_83e716b1	comment	The Last Man on Earth is an After the End story about the very few survivors of a virus that eradicated humanity, and how they group together. Phil Miller nearly falls into suicidal despair at one point, but is living a fairly comfortable existence in a world that's strangely lacking in either dead bodies or destruction. Or so it seems to the characters, most of whom are in denial about how bad things are. As time goes on they're increasingly forced to deal with the reality of their situation, such as the fact that their food (stolen from abandoned stores) will run out. The illusion is shattered completely in the second season when Phil II dies of appendicitis because nobody has the medical training or supplies to help him.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_842c5731	comment	Godzilla: Final Wars features a pair of Antarctic workers charged with watching over Godzilla's prison, one of whom apparently views the alien apocalypse as a chance to enjoy his croissants and comic books in peace. He and his co-worker are the first victims of the newly awakened Godzilla.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_84b22968	comment	The Lightlark Saga: Lightlark has been completely cut-off from the rest of the world for five centuries, save for a 100 day period every 100 years. Despite this, most of the island is a beautiful, prosperous and well-maintained place with a booming economy (they even have shops selling luxury items like chocolate) and all the people seem quite happy aside from the curses. Lightlark has also maintained the upkeep of multiple castles/palaces for the rulers and their attendants to live in. Only Wild Isle and Star Isle have fallen into ruin and this is attributed to Wild Isle being long abandoned and Starlings not living long enough (they don't live past 25) to keep the isle maintained.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_8a836c90	comment	The Alexandria arc on The Walking Dead (2010) shows the collision of one group of survivors living a Cozy Catastrophe with another who has been fighting for their lives for years. The former think the latter act like savages, and the latter think the former are weak and sheltered. Amusingly enough, both groups are right about each other.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_8c371d03	comment	At the end of The World's End, the alien Big Bad decides to leave Earth and destroys all human technology out of spite, sending the world into a pseudo-medieval state. Nonetheless, the protagonists seem to deal with it just fine along with either fixing some old relationships or establishing new ones. In the case of Gary, his hedonistic and selfish ways lend itself well into this new world.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_9045b1b7	comment	In World War Z, a handful of countries managed to get by almost unscathed through the Zombie Apocalypse: Israel was pretty much the only nation that took the initial zombie threat seriously while Ireland and Cuba were isolated enough to be zombie-free. On the other hand, the Israelis had to contend with a brief civil war against ultra-Orthodox dissidents over abandoning Jerusalem and letting in goyim, and Cuba faced democratic upheaval with Fidel Castro willingly giving it to his people, guaranteeing his own legacy and ensuring he didn't get toppled over by an increasingly overpopulated, diverse, and liberal populace. North Korea meanwhile attempted pulling this off through having its entire population go underground to wait out the zombie apocalypse. Decades later, no one's in a rush to figure out whatever became of them.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech: Thanks to Jerome Blake getting Terra declared neutral by the Successor States, it enjoyed 300 years worth of peace and economic prosperity while the Succession Wars raged across the rest of the Inner Sphere. It wasn't until the wedding of Hanse Davion and Melisa Steiner in 3028 that large numbers of outsiders were permitted to visit the planet and they were shocked by how high the standard of living was compared to the rest of human space.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_976efc02	comment	The Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode featuring the film Warrior of the Lost World devoted a sketch to lampshading the ample greenery and well-maintained roads of the film's post-apocalyptic future. Another occasion has them talk about what they would do if the world ended. Tom would drive cars off of cliffs all day by putting cinderblocks on their pedals. Crow would wear football gear and jump through windows.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_9994a14f	comment	WALLâ€¢E: Yes humanity abandoned the planet over 700 years prior to the movie, leaving behind a junk-filled planet thatâ€™s (allegedly) too toxic and polluted to ever support life again, but the main focus for much of the first act is Wall-Eâ€™s cute and funny misadventures. He even has an adorable pet cockroach!
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_99e61d8f	comment	The Day of the Triffids is one of the archetypal examples, with the eponymous killer plants running (well, lurching) amok after most of the human population is blinded. However, despite being the original target of the trope, it doesn't actually fit it at all. The protagonist faces constant danger and hardship, and the closest he comes to comfort before the end of the book is a rudimentary life of subsistence farming with the constant threat of death if anyone makes a single mistake.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_9b2d45ef	comment	Beginning in Episode 4 (out of 7) of Freedom, Takeru and Biz escape from the dystopian government on the Moon and crash-land their spacecraft in the ruins of Las Vegas. Even though the survivors on Earth After the End live in poverty, have lost most forms of technology and can grow crops only with great difficulty, for some reason seafood-flavored Cup Noodles are readily available, and everyone the protagonists meet is cheerful, friendly and optimistic. They safely drive 2400 miles to Cape Canaveral without getting waylaid by bandits or anything. This is perhaps the most sympathetic portrayal of Americans ever to be seen in an anime: possibly a subversion of Eagleland, the message seeming to be that Americans would be great folks to be around if they didn't have any money or government. "Freedom" was commissioned by Nissin Cup Noodles as a promotional film, so of course they've got to work ramen in there somewhere...
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_9f1284a8	comment	Soren prefers I Am Legend, since there's a level of safety guaranteed, due to the monsters only coming out at night. He also likes the idea of building elaborate monster traps during the day, as it "turns your entire world into Home Alone".
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_a1434e74	comment	Played as satire in Night of the Comet, where Earth's passage through a comet's tail turns most animal life into red powder. The only survivors in Los Angeles, aside from some Zombie Apocalypse cannibals, are a pair of Valley Girl sisters ... who immediately hit the mall and play dress-up. The electricity just keeps on chugging through and beyond the end of the movie, and before the comet's effects are felt by the characters, a news reporter doesn't seem at all alarmed by reports that all communication has gone dead in the first region of the world to see the comet, and everyone else is too busy holding "comet parties" to notice.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_a289a6cd	comment	The marketing department rebranded it as the "Awesomepocalypse", but Sunset Overdrive is self-consciously about this trope. What should you do when nearly everyone in the world has turned into soda-crazed monsters from too much partying? Grab a skateboard, a couple submachine guns, and party even harder! Just... don't drink the soda this time.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_a3139d2c	comment	Castaways: Cara and Emily escape the pandemic through fleeing on a boat. Then it goes down, with them washed up on an island. It's a paradise overall, with them becoming quite happy with this, especially once they've become lovers. They even choose to stay forever at the end rather than accept any means back. The rest of the world presumably can fend for itself facing the pandemic.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_a4643670	comment	El Eternauta starts out kinda like that... But then it gets much, much worse.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_a54eef52	comment	Played with in Hetalia: Axis Powers: Paint it White where the embodiments of Switzerland and Liechtenstein share a sweet picnic together while the rest of the world reels from an Alien Invasion. Also done at the beginning of the movie, when good chunks of the world are being turned into aliens. The meeting held to figure out what course of action to take ends with them arguing over which of them makes the best kind of movies.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_a660fd96	comment	In Avengers: Endgame, Thanos' extermination of half of all life in the universe does not have the apocalyptic consequences you'd expect. While there are some deserted neighborhoods around the world after a Five Year Time Skip, the worst consequence anyone has to deal with is depression, rather than total infrastructural or societal collapse. Several characters even eat out at a restaurant in one scene.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_a6f29b00	comment	At the end of The Last Man After Lionel washes up on the shore of Ravenna as the last man on earth, he mourns the loss of his companions who drowned at sea, he then travels on foot to Rome where he is able to live comfortably for a year (except for being depressed and lonely) until he decides to spend the rest of his life traveling around the earth to search for another human.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_a8610093	comment	In a successful enough Frostpunk playthrough, you could have a city with warm, heated houses and convenient access to entertainment, advanced medical services, a place of worship/and a sense of security, filling meals of meat and vegetables every day, while automatons perform most of the manual labour and all the children go to school. Your survivors have a better quality of life than the majority of 19th Century Londoners in real life, without an apocalyptic ice age.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_a913877a	comment	In Project Zomboid, it is possible to become entirely self-sufficient inside a safe area, though it does typically involve some exploits like being able to build an infinitely spanning bridge in midair (essentially a Floating Continent), or using one of several "unbreakable wall" exploits to permanently seal zombies out of an existing structure and then clearing it out, or the "turn ashfalt into dirt" exploit. If you're able to get a renewable source of food via farming, an infinite water source, and able to keep warm in winter, since zombies can never get in you can basically just last forever in there. All there is to do now is your chores, a bit of stat grinding, and very likely starting a new game.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_ac7fd385	comment	The setting of Hatoful Boyfriend could be considered one of these. Humanity is nearly extinct, birds are the dominant civilization, multiple political factions are in an uneasy truce, and our (human) heroine nonchalantly jogs past the ruined remains of a human city on her way to school to flirt with her bird classmates.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_aea94767	comment	One of the ultimate examples may be George R. Stewart's timeless Earth Abides, which depicts most of humankind dying off due to a super-plague, and the ones left to repopulate the earth are fairly ordinary people who aren't at all badasses or Well-Intentioned Extremists. The protagonist, Isherwood Williams, is a Wide-Eyed Idealist who starts off with the intention of rebuilding civilization, but in his old age settles into comfort with the idea that, although technology has been set back to the Stone Age, the spirit of humanity lives on. The book also plays with this as the protagonist initially roams the US looking for survivors. On one hand, he finds a group fulfilling this trope living a reasonably comfortable life from looted goods in New York, but realizes they'll be doomed when the food runs out, or when winter comes. On the other, he meets a family of black semi-literate sharecroppers deep in the rural South, still growing their own vegetables and raising animals just as they did before the plague. Their descendants are probably doing just as well as (or even better than) Ish's tribe.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_aeb8d25c	comment	Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is one of the most laid-back depictions of the twilight of humanity ever, as seen through the eyes of an android coffee shop owner. Despite the common knowledge that humanity is on the decline, the general attitude of everyone is to just live out their lives and accept things as they are. The past is generally treated with some wistfulness, but no one is in significant angst.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_af5f24e3	comment	In Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament, the protagonists are largely untouched at first on their large private estate by the chaos gripping the American continent. As things get gnarlier, the place starts falling apart, the electricity goes out, and there's no way to get material to make routine repairs.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_afbbcb4	comment	Code Vein: Louis' base, which serves as the main hub. It's in an abandoned church, and apart from some broken windows, a couple of missing walls, and a crack going through part of it, it's in surprisingly good condition. Considering the the world has suffered multiple apocalypses and they're still in the middle of one, that's pretty impressive. It even has electricity, a fully-stocked bar, and a functioning hot spring.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_b06ae8de	comment	When the Wind Blows: Deconstructed. A kindly but naive elderly couple hunker down as a devastating nuclear war begins. Due to the government's poor education of the public about the matter, coupled with their total failure to understand how serious the situation is (they lived through the Blitz in WWII and think it's just like that. It's not), they end up dying slowly and painfully from radiation sickness. The worst part is that their lack of understanding of radiation leads to them making things worse, as they don't realize how stupid and self-defeating the poorly written government pamphlets are (they're told to yank doors off hinges to use as a makeshift inner shelter, than a few pages later are told to leave the doors in place as barricades).
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_b0f6bf48	comment	The Mall could be on the verge of being obliterated, but the heroes of Mall Fight generally take it in stride. At one point, Mango starts having job interviews while the Mall is being destroyed by Eric and Diablo.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_b2edd00b	comment	In Zombieland, the apocalypse actually improves the main character's life and learning to enjoy life is as much a survival trait as being able to fire a shotgun. Then again the apocalypse was so devastating that there may be as few as six people left alive at this point. Nobody left has any long-term goals besides survival and keeping themselves sane. Taken a step further in the sequel, Zombieland: Double Tap. Like the previous film, this zombie apocalypse is very cozy, especially compared to other zombie fiction. Infrastructure like power and water still exists thanks to still-functioning fully-automated hydroelectric dams, and zombies have apparently thinned to the point that you're generally in little danger so long as you keep your wits about you and keep the noise down. Even with the introduction of more dangerous zombies the heroes are generally in little danger and battles against zombies are usually just an excuse to show off sweet zombie kills, to the point that Columbus continues to give out "Zombie Kill of the ____" awards. They're never short on food or resources, they begin to meet more survivors who aren't antagonistic (though some are assholes), never worry about other survivors trying to steal from them, and don't have to worry about gasoline or other scavenged resources running bad. Pretty much the worst part of things in this current world is working vehicles are becoming harder to find, and Columbus even declares their living in the White House to be the best days of his life including those from before the apocalypse.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_b36a852c	comment	Averted in Five. Eric is opposed to Michael's attempt to set up an sustainable agrarian homestead, believing that they should be seeking out other survivors to establish a superior breed of humanity to rule over the world that he believes will rise out of the ashes, and pointing out that there is no need to grow their own food as there are tons of food sitting in warehouses just waiting to be taken. Michael, however, points out the cities are where the radiation is, and wants to establish a Thoreau-like existence of self-sufficiency that doesn't rely on supplies that will eventually rot and run out.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_b4501394	comment	Ellis, from the sequel, is likewise unperturbed by the Zombie Apocalypse, being an excitable Cloud Cuckoo Lander by nature.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_b6546872	comment	Dawn of the Dead (2004) has this in a brief montage, wherein the survivors simply enjoy the benefits of living in an abandoned, secure mall. At least until the fuse boxes go out in the desolate, abandoned basement. A similar event happens in the original, towards the end of the movie.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_b9b053a7	comment	In Bokeh a young American couple on holiday in Iceland wake up one morning to discover everyone else on earth has disappeared. Despite the two frequently arguing they are able to live comfortably as they can enjoy the beauty of Iceland, still have the Internet, acquire a car, can take food and supplies from the supermarkets and have all the houses on Iceland to choose from.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_b9e60276	comment	Finch: Around fifteen years after a solar flare has scorched the earth and destroyed the ozone layer the titular Finch has been safely living alone in an underground St. Louis laboratory with his dog Goodyear and robot Dewey. Even when Finch and his companions (Goodyear, Dewey and the newly created Jeff) are forced to make a road-trip to San Francisco due to an incoming giant storm, the trip itself is mostly pleasant and cosy bar a tornado, solar radiation and a vehicle briefly pursuing their motorhome.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_ba291a47	comment	Taken a step further in the sequel, Zombieland: Double Tap. Like the previous film, this zombie apocalypse is very cozy, especially compared to other zombie fiction. Infrastructure like power and water still exists thanks to still-functioning fully-automated hydroelectric dams, and zombies have apparently thinned to the point that you're generally in little danger so long as you keep your wits about you and keep the noise down. Even with the introduction of more dangerous zombies the heroes are generally in little danger and battles against zombies are usually just an excuse to show off sweet zombie kills, to the point that Columbus continues to give out "Zombie Kill of the ____" awards. They're never short on food or resources, they begin to meet more survivors who aren't antagonistic (though some are assholes), never worry about other survivors trying to steal from them, and don't have to worry about gasoline or other scavenged resources running bad. Pretty much the worst part of things in this current world is working vehicles are becoming harder to find, and Columbus even declares their living in the White House to be the best days of his life including those from before the apocalypse.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_ba2a608d	comment	In The Quiet Earth, almost all of humanity disappears, leaving the handful of survivors with everyone else's stuff.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Early Shadowrun products' Alternate History timeline depicted downtown New York City being virtually leveled by an earthquake in 2004, and tallied the damages around 200 billion dollars. Even at 1989 prices, that figure seems preposterously like this trope, as does the premise that even that game-setting's MegaCorp powerhouses could finance its reconstruction in a matter of a couple of decades.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_bce6ca9a	comment	Humanity Has Declined: Humans as we know them aren't going to last much longer, most technology is gone, starvation is a real threat... but society has survived, and the standard of living isn't all that low.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_bd3f6ba4	comment	Gensokyo 20XX, specifically, 20XXIII — most of 20XXIV seems play with this. For the most part, after the nukes drop, the characters struggle to live and survive, especially as the winter starts and things start running scarce. Adding to this, few characters (Sakuya, Reiko, Patchouli, and most of Ran's litter) die in the aftermath. It's only until much later in 20XXIV and 20XXV does things get cozy.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_bdb01400	comment	Arachnid ended with Japan being engulfed by an outbreak of "rape-zombies". Just over a year later in Blattodea, the country has become a dilapidated wasteland. Alice is still torn with grief and almost falls prey to the zombies, but as for new protagonists Chiyuri and Setsuna? Both have moved on from their traumatic experiences and happily work together to kill the zombies, with Chiyuri still being awfully carefree about being homeless.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_be03a5ee	comment	The world following the Rapture in the Left Behind books. Crashed airlines, mass disappearances, and political upheaval everywhere, but the trash is still getting collected, airline flights are uninterrupted, and it's safe to walk the streets at night. It arguably gets more cozy right on the day of Jesus' second coming, at least for the believers. Conveniently, the world's economic system crashes with the destruction of New Babylon on the same day that Jesus comes. Everyone on Carpathia's side who isn't in Carpathia's Unity Army, and who isn't so determined to go forward with destroying the Christians and Jews in Petra and Jerusalem, is in a world-wide panic. It gets to the point where the believers are passing the popcorn and watching as the Lord lays the smackdown on the whole Global Community army. The latter half of the Tribulation gets somewhat cozy for the believers. Sure, they're still getting hunted down and beheaded by those who take the Mark of the Beast. But bloody rivers? God provides clean water. Sun-baking heat that scorches everything? Exposure to the Son will keep believers from burning. Pitch-black darkness over New Babylon? God will provide some level of visibility. Petra is basically a Place of Protection that nobody on Carpathia's side can even enter.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_be651019	comment	In the Gifts of Wandering Ice the old world died along with most of its population, only few people survived the catastrophe and an ice age that followed it. But they didn't become bloodthirsty savages. Quite the opposite: in many ways they are much better people than their ancestors were. There are no wars in their world, also people of the new era are kind and intelligent.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_c08f5913	comment	In Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the eponymous setting seems to be an urban civilization that was abandoned and has begun to be Reclaimed by Nature, as seen by things like rusty cars and skyscrapers with moss crawling up their sides. Despite this, it's just as cheery in tone as any other Kirby game, and the main threat to the world isn't this catastrophe (if indeed there was a catastrophe, as the cutscene before the Final Boss suggests that humanity merely Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence rather than dying off), but rather the antagonistic Beast Pack which has taken up residence within it. The game's developers discussed this in an interview, saying that they wanted to avoid the world feeling "too scary" and instead focused on the beauty of what it once was.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_c3da1a7d	comment	'Souls RPG depicts a post-apocalyptic world run by dogs, and they're having a grand old time.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_c49abff0	comment	The Martian Chronicles features a man who, after a Martian colony was abandoned, is one of the last humans on Mars. He enjoys it for a while.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_c6cba714	comment	Exmortis 2 features a small and peaceful community of farmers isolated from the apocalyptic carnage that the Exmortis demons are unleashing on the rest of the world. Of course, by the time the PC actually finds this place, the inhabitants have been slaughtered, but one of the farmers was considerate enough to leave a lengthy journal recording the disasters in the outside world, the measures put in place to defend themselves from approaching Exmortis, and the foraging expeditions to abandoned settlements. Of course, with supernatural entities roaming the Earth in search of humans to torture and murder, the cosy catastrophe lasts only until the first air-horn sounds.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_ccfdfab1	comment	Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead's protagonist spent the pre-Zombie Apocalypse days working at a "black company", a type of Japanese company whose status as a Soul-Crushing Desk Job stretches the boundaries into outright illegality, forcing employees to work extremely long hours with minimal pay or benefits. Consequently, after the initial shock wears off, he's actually relieved that he doesn't have to go to work anymore, and he decides to spend the apocalypse filling out the titular bucket list.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_d76bae2a	comment	The topic of the After Hours episode "4 Movie Apocalypses That Would Be More Fun Than Reality'', with the characters talking about which apocalyptic scenario from fiction they would find most enjoyable. Daniel likes The Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last", as he is an introvert and enjoys the thought of being alone to read. Even the whole "broken glasses" Twist Ending doesn't bug him, as there are books on tape now. He changes his answer to one were there would be at least some other survivors when he realizes that he will never learn how Game of Thrones ends if George R. R. Martin dies. Soren prefers I Am Legend, since there's a level of safety guaranteed, due to the monsters only coming out at night. He also likes the idea of building elaborate monster traps during the day, as it "turns your entire world into Home Alone". Katie wants The Walking Dead instead, as the monsters in I Am Legend were sentient beings who could be cured, but a Zombie Apocalypse means guilt-free destruction as your victims are already dead. Michael decides on Waterworld, because the survivors in other scenarios spend their time trying to recreate the society they left behind and failing, whereas most of the characters of Waterworld have already accepted and adapted to the world. He also claims that the higher altitude would actually be a health benefit.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_d90f02aa	comment	The Books of Ember: Society is a bit like this in The Diamond of Darkhold. Of course, the events of the book take place about 200 years after the end of the world, so nobody actually has any idea what happened, and the simple farming life is all that the people of Sparks know. The epilogue describes the world some centuries after the conclusion of the series, with human civilization having recovered a tech base roughly equivalent to pre-apocalypse levels, but somewhat more eco-friendly this time around. (Solar panels and other industrial electric tech are explicitly mentioned.)
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_dc0e8b6c	comment	In Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea, sea levels rise by some 20 meters around the island where the story takes place, which would likely wipe out everything on it. Still, most anyone in the movie is shown to have fun and the focus stays on the relationship between Sosuke and Ponyo. It's strongly implied that there are no casualties at all (no human ones, anyway).
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_de225c0a	comment	The world of Mutant Football League has endured a lot of nightmarish catastrophes in its history, starting with two more world wars, followed by The Legions of Hell invading, the dead reawakening, lycanthropic outbreaks, meteor impacts, apocalyptic earthquakes, a Robot War, rampant mutation, an alien invasion, orcs just appearing everywhere and MonSatan's questionable business practices. What this all means for you, however, is it's all an excuse for you to get to play super-violent football with teams made up of Mutant Humans, Undead skeletons, Werewolves, Demons, Orcs, Criminal Aliens and Warbots.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_dfc76cbe	comment	The Last Man on Earth and The Ωmega Man, both film adaptations of the original I Am Legend novel, have Neville living a relatively civilised post-apocalyptic life. Same with the 2007 adaptation of the same name: Neville is a Crazy-Prepared scientist with a fair amount of supplies which allows him to live in relative peace and luxury in his house, even playing golf and browsing through video stores. He's also slowly but steadily going insane from loneliness, with a good helping of Survivor Guilt on top, so maybe it's not quite as cosy as all that.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_e0266fa8	comment	Station Eleven follows a traveling Shakespeare troupe twenty years after a mutated superflu spelled the end of civilization as we know it. Despite its dreary backdrop, the novel focuses mainly on the importance of art and human connection through a series of interwoven narratives, blending past and present. Characters care for each other and learn to enjoy life in the new, desolate world, building small, tight-knit communities and even museums and libraries. At the end, a town with electricity is seen on the distant horizon, giving the characters hope that life can return to how it was before.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_e1b38657	comment	Justified as it's essentially a modern fairy tale set in a post-apocalypse scenario, in How I Live Now a nuclear weapon explodes in London killing tens if not hundreds of thousands. However for the kids it's an opportunity to explore some first-cousin sex, play outside a lot, and have sleepovers in the barn. Even the kids were hit by fallout material from the blast, no one is made ill by it. Additionally, it appears that the nuclear attack may have been limited only to England or even just London, with the rest of the world unaffected. However the situation becomes a lot less comfortable once martial law has been instituted, and it's revealed that the terrorists have contaminated the water supply and control parts of England (they are powerful enough to successfully fight an off-guard UK military for now at least).
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_e23e5015	comment	Zig-zagged in ShootAround, where a girl's basketball team facing a Zombie Apocalypse enjoys it far more than they should; sometimes, however, the comic can get a lot darker about it.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_e2b3cc8a	comment	At the end of To Boldly Flee, the world gets swallowed up by a Plot Hole, allowing chaos to enter the world. After the end credits, no one seems to notice.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS Autoduel/Car Wars portrays Australia as having become a quasi superpower because it is the only continent not affected by grain blight, and their cars even run on gasoline. Pretty cushy place, if you can deal with the outrageous quarantine regulations and you're not trying to leap the Cobalt Curtain.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_e735e9e0	comment	Dead Winter is mostly lighthearted Zombie Apocalypse story, with a focus on people rather than the zombies themselves. It has shades of this, as the undead aren't really that much of a threat thanks to their Zombie Gait (although it doesn't mean they should be left alone or underestimated). Survivors have learned to make do with their new reality, trying their best to survive through the end of days. This trope is especially more apparent in two of its settings: The Birch Street Shelter is well run by its landlady; tenants live cozily, with electricity still running inside, and a pair of young precocious twin scamps running around. The City of Tombstone exemplifies this trope way more than the former. While almost everyone in the city is armed, it's one of the few places with any semblance to normality in the apocalypse, thanks to most of the survivors having to do their part by being assigned jobs and even having their own currency.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_e8d13e52	comment	Urusei Yatsura: This is the prologue to the second movie, Beautiful Dreamer. The plot returns to this territory after the protagonists Pull the Thread on the surreal "Groundhog Day" Loop they had been stuck in, with the rest of Tomobiki crumbling to ruins except for Ataru's house... and a nearby abandoned convenience store that mysteriously remains stocked with fresh groceries for no apparent reason. It's all a Lotus-Eater Machine revolving around Lum and her wishes to spend time having fun with her friends and her Darling forever.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_e9cb2780	comment	Gears of War has Azura, a island-based five-star hotel/hideout/research facility protected by a maelstrom defense where the elite of the COG government spent their days in luxury while the rest of the surviving population dealt with starvation and constant attacks by the Locust and the Lambent. Eventually, the locust take over Azura, likely kill most of the elitists there, and turn it into a science lab for captured human scientists. By the time COG arrives, only one doomed scientist is still alive. It's unknown if Azura is still structurally intact enough at the end of the game to become a cozy island base for the COG.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_ea85bebc	comment	Always Coming Home is centuries, if not millenia, after civilization had collapsed, natural resources are exhausted, the pollution is such that a quarter of the babies are stillborn... but people seem much happier than we are today.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_ec28245c	comment	Dragon Ball Z exhibits this trope in The History Of Trunks. Despite the fact that the androids have wiped out two-thirds of Earth's population, people in the cities they haven't attacked yet still go about their daily lives like normal.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_ecde384c	comment	School-Live! is basically a School Girl Series set in a Zombie Apocalypse. While members of the cast periodically show the psychological toll the event had on them, one of them is subject to delusions in which everything is as it was before the apocalypse and she's living at the school as a club activity. Her clubmates and fellow survivors basically play along with it. The school also happens to have solar panels, a water purification system and plenty of supplies (though they sometimes need to leave the shelter to get more food), which is great help in the playing along. All that equipment gets destroyed later on, by circumstances beyond the girl's control.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_f037be0c	comment	The reign of the White Witch in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe appears to have been this for the native Narnians. Sure, the Witch is by all accounts a tyrannical usurper with a ruthless secret police and a tendency to turn people to stone for annoying her, and her reign is marked by a hundred years of constant winter — but this doesn't keep locals like Mr. Tumnus or the Beavers from enjoying a modest-but-perfectly-cozy lifestyle, and once Aslan returns there are apparently plenty of healthy Narnians to flock to his cause and form a proper army while the Witch has her own servants and allies in some quantity, so it would seem that food, firewood, clothes (where needed) and in the case of Mrs. Beaver even her precious sewing machine all kept managing to come from somewhere in all this time. (For that matter, when Aslan's return puts a sudden end to the century of winter, the abrupt thaw seems to miraculously have no negative side effects whatsoever either, though that one can potentially be explained away by Aslan being rather literally Lion Jesus.)
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_f17c3b1d	comment	Dead Rising and its sequel are pretty much Cosy Catastrophe: The Game. The zombies are only dangerous in packs (though there are a LOT of them) and aside from rescuing survivors or running from the occasional psychopath, you're free to roam around, eating, drinking, stealing or wearing whatever you can find. The zombie apocalypse was initially restricted to a single city and contained (breakouts elsewhere do happen but only because of conspiracy forces), there's a vaccine that was rapidly developed and eventually a cure. And most of all, humans quickly adapted to violently dealing with the zombies - to the point where a Las Vegas gameshow pits BMX bikers in souped-up bikes against captured zombies and there are fanzines and clubs dedicated to making anti-zombie weapons. Your fellow survivors in Dead Rising 2 will easily massacre zombies and psychos if you give them a weapon (especially if they get a decent gun).
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_f186f924	comment	Horizon Zero Dawn: Despite suffering what should have been a VERY final end of the world scenario, the planet seems to be recouping very nicely. Aside from a few bad apples, human society has been reborn and the ecosystem has been revitalized. Even the roving giant mechanical beasts have become more of a background to life than a horrible threat. It'd actually be quite idyllic if it wasn't for the conspiracy to destroy the place.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_f4981f42	comment	You Are (Not) At Fault: As wandering around the ruins of post-Apocalypse Tokyo-3, Shinji starts feeling hungry. So he breaks into an abandoned convenience store and grabs several bottles of water and bags of snacks.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_f5855286	comment	Zigzagged in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Demon King Ganondorf's reawakening leads to the "Upheaval", where Hyrule Castle is lifted into the air, chunks of long-forgotten Sky Islands crash to the surface, and Chasms leading to the dangerous Depths open up. Yet a surprisingly large number of Hyruleans go about their lives without worrying about any of this. The Zonai Survey Team view the fallen Sky Island chunks as an opportunity to study more about the Zonai. Kakariko Village gets a particularly large number of such chunks strewn about the place, yet rather than react with panic, Chief Paya decides to let tourists come look at the fallen ruins. With all that said, other settlements do suffer pretty badly in the aftermath of the Upheaval. Lurelin Village gets razed by pirates, Rito Village gets covered in an endless blizzard that keeps them from growing crops, Zora's Domain gets doused with a poisonous sludge, and the Gerudo struggle with both a sand shroud that blocks the sun as well as a swarm of attacking Gibdos.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_f5a33197	comment	Zekkyou Gakkyuu has an epilogue for The Boyfriend Lesson reveal this to be happening. Virtual humans, created through cellphone apps, have replaced majority of humanity and the natural birthrate is at zero. After all, why bother going through the trouble of finding a partner and raising children, when one can so easily just create the perfect one with a few clicks? And the virtual humans are so pleasant to be around that even the Prime Minister, who may be one of the few real humans left, says that "nature should just take its course" and let things happen.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_f5e30a17	comment	At face value, Stand Still, Stay Silent has a Just Before the End sequence focused on people who end up surviving The End of the World as We Know It, then jumps to 90 years After the End, during which humanity has had plenty of time to recover and the settlements we get to see in the end of the prologue and the first three chapters are the better-off ones. However, the less cosy aspect peeks just below the surface, with some characters originating from a place where small settlements sometimes just plain disappeared and the story mostly happening in the Forbidden Zone that fell victim to the apocalypse and still contains remnants of failed attempts at preventing its spread and later failed reconquest of the lands by the descendants of those who used to live there.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_f6477a2b	comment	The 1959 novel Alas, Babylon starts off making some serious points about nuclear war and the prevailing military doctrine of the time, but then quickly turns post-nuclear survival into a delightful robinsonade resembling The Mysterious Island.
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Cosy Catastrophe / int_fd289bb0	comment	Revolution: Despite the collapse of modern civilization, things don't look that bad. Indeed, episode 14 shows that the Georgia Federation is a pretty nice place to live, with business, wealth, and international trade.
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Flood / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Humanity Has Declined / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Left Behind / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Night Shift (1978) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
On the Beach / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Ready Player One / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Snow Crash / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Sunday Without God / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Books of Ember / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Day of the Triffids / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Girl Who Owned a City / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Lightlark Saga / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Martian Chronicles / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Peripheral / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Road / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Tomorrow Code / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Turner Diaries / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Unreal Estate / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
EarthAbides	seeAlso	Cosy Catastrophe
HasherBritarse	seeAlso	Cosy Catastrophe
JohnWyndham	seeAlso	Cosy Catastrophe
TheDayOfTheTriffids	seeAlso	Cosy Catastrophe
Apocalypse Zero (Manga) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Blattodea (Manga) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Girls' Last Tour (Manga) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
School-Live! (Manga) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Girl from the Other Side (Manga) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Manga) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Lostprophets (Music) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Sincere Engineer (Music) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Souls RPG (Roleplay) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Between / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Daybreak (2019) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
It Could Happen Tomorrow / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Jericho (2006) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Lexx / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Misfits / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Power Rangers RPM / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Succession / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Survivors / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Survivors (BBC) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Last Man on Earth / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Tribe / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Utopia / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine (Tabletop Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
GURPS Reign of Steel (Tabletop Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
AER: Memories of Old (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Bravery Network Online (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Cargo! The Quest for Gravity (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Cataclysm (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Dead Island (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Dread X Collection (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Frostpunk (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
God of War RagnarÃ¶k (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Infernax (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Left 4 Dead (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Left 4 Dead 2 (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Megami Tensei II (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Mother 3 (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
OneShot (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Pandora's Box (1999) (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
SOMA (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
60 Seconds! (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Sky: Children of the Light (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Sonic Unleashed (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Sunset Overdrive (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Room: The Game (Video Game) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Amaranto (Visual Novel) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Seinarukana (Visual Novel) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Zombie Hunters (Webcomic) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Dead Winter (Webcomic) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Iji (Captain Lhurgoyf) (Webcomic) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
minus. (Webcomic) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Stand Still, Stay Silent (Webcomic) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Stupiders (Webcomic) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Carol and the End of the World / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
The Last Kids on Earth / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Sunday Without God / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Kurogane Communication (Manga) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Jericho / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
CLANNAD (Visual Novel) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe

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