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Fascist, but Inefficient	comment	Those Wacky Nazis. Sure, they might be brutal, genocidal, monstrously evil, and ruled by an insane tyrannical megalomaniac. But at least they can make trains run on time and all that good stuff. Or so it's said. But in truth, the Nazis couldn't even do that right. Nazi Germany was one of the least efficient states in history — and that's not even accounting for the gross amount of corruption. Surprisingly, this was the result of deliberate design. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis intentionally created a multitude of redundant agencies and government departments with overlapping responsibilities. The goal, per their Social Darwinist beliefs, was for agencies to compete against each other, the theory being that the strongest agency would rise to the top. The result was complete chaos. Agencies and departments refused to work with each other because they saw each other as rivals in a competition rather than partners working towards a common goal. Historical evidence even suggests that, at times, some agencies of the Nazi government were so bogged down in spying, plotting, and undermining one another that carrying out the function they were actually supposed to do became secondary to trying to one-up everybody else. This was also by design — Hitler was an extremely paranoid man who feared any challenge to his authority, and having the bureaucracy constantly infighting kept them focused on each other rather than him. In Real Life, the only thing efficient about dictatorships and fascist states like Nazi Germany is their total control of the media, which they use to portray themselves as being extremely efficient and benevolent. This is despite their crippling factional in-fighting, endemic corruption, and brainwashing their communities into hellholes. In fiction, the administrative incompetence of authoritarian regimes is often taken to comedic extremes. They'll enforce laws in a haphazard manner — extreme draconian punishment for jaywalkers, but anyone with enough sense to wear a Paper-Thin Disguise slips right under the radar. It appears that in their respective universes, fascism is controlled by a series of obstructive bureaucrats, who aren't really interested in things working so much as they are in seriously inconveniencing people. This trope isn't just limited to fascism, but authoritarianism in general. Dirty Communists, colonial imperialists, capitalistic One Nations Under Copyright, and even good ol' fashioned non-ideological tyrants, most notoriously Right Wing Militia Fanatics and military dictatorships, can fit under this trope. In fact, the trope runs a wide gamut of malice and effectiveness. This kind of government can actually be run by Lawful Good characters whose haphazard enforcement of the law usually keeps the heroes from doing their job. La RÃ©sistance may operate under the auspice of a mildly incompetent evil government, such that their activities go unnoticed. Other such governments are just willfully ignorant of certain lawbreakers for whatever reason, be it prejudice, corruption, or plain old laziness. A distinct possibility is that the boss really is Surrounded by Idiots just as he's been saying all along. Of course, the people living under such a regime will still talk in public about how efficient the Fascist, But Inefficient government is... because if they don't, they stand a good chance of getting arrested and executed. This is Truth in Television; it's usually hard to oppress people, try to Take Over the World and run a functioning government at the same time. And indeed, there have been a number of real life cases of such empires falling under this trope. But such things are beyond the scope of this website. Because of the inherent Flame Bait of calling any government entity a fascist state, the only Real Life example we will allow on this page is the preceding one about Nazi Germany. Other than that, No Real Life Examples, Please!. Compare Dystopia Is Hard and Capitalism Is Bad. Contrast Repressive, but Efficient. noreallife
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_121022b1	comment	The Grace of Kings: Emperor MapidÃ©rÃ©'s grand vision fell apart because he didn't understand that his Empire was made up of human beings who can't work on massive public works projects if they're dead or starving. When citizens are deprived of their basic needs and subjected to draconian punishments for any shortcoming, they rebel simply because it brings a slightly greater chance of survival.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_12bc81c8	comment	In the Civilization: Call to Power series, Tyranny is the starting government and is extremely poor in almost all areas. Later in the game, Fascism and Communism supply good production and strong military support, but with weaker economies and can support fewer cities than Democracy, the other government at about the same position on the tech tree. (Technocracy is an aversion, however. This government is pretty much Nineteen Eighty-Four, but is a highly efficient government, although with slightly different bonuses to other late-game ones.)
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_16fc4335	comment	In the Heralds of Valdemar series, King Ancar of Hardorn basically treated his entire country as a machine to build and supply armies that he could use to conquer his neighbors. Which might have been a workable economic model, if only he'd been able to conquer any of his neighbors. By the time he was assassinated (for trying to conquer Valdemar — for the third time), he had looted his own country of so many people and resources that some places didn't have enough able-bodied people left behind to keep enough farms running to feed themselves, much less supply the armies.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_1869a077	comment	Samurai Jack Season 5: The High Priestess' rearing of her daughters is a horrifically cruel reflection of Jack's own... and that cruelty is exactly what makes it a less efficient means of creating the World's Best Warrior than Jack's did. It not only leaves them utterly incapable of functioning outside their given mission and ignorant of the outside world to the point of not knowing what a deer even is, rearing a group meant to fight as a unit to have a Lack of Empathy and actively avoiding helping each other at all costs left a vulnerability Jack was able to exploit to directly kill one and defeat the group as a whole. Contrast with Jack, who was both the World's Best Warrior capable of fighting in near-any environment and a fairly well-adjusted human being because of the more benevolent parts of his rearing.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: Dragon Age: Origins: After leaving King Cailan to die in battle, Teyrn Loghain declares himself Regent to the widowed queen, his daughter Anora, and tries to rule Ferelden with an iron fist. He also employs the ruthless Arl Rendon Howe as his right hand, due to a mistaken belief that Howe's ruthlessness belies political cunning and willingness to do what's needed to keep the nobles in line. This backfires horribly: Loghain's bald-faced power grab and iron fist cause an outright civil war, and Howe's attempt to keep the nobility in line with kidnappings, torture, assassinations, and so on just drives more nobles into resisting and destroys any credibility Loghain had. It doesn't help that this is going on while Ferelden is being invaded by a Blight, so trade, commerce, and travel all across the country has ground to a halt, and with any military force that could oppose them locked in civil war, the darkspawn have free rein to run rampant and lay waste to half of Ferelden. Finally, Loghain's unwillingness to address the country's problems in favor of "securing their border" with Orlais eventually leads to the Player Character routing his public support as the only way to defeat the Blight with their own army and defeating him politically in a Landsmeet. Dragon Age II: Knight-Commander Meredith is the de facto authority figure of the medieval city-kingdom of Kirkwall, due to the Viscount Dumar being an Authority in Name Only and the casually corrupt and incompetent nobility being unconcerned with anything besides their money. Kirkwall is also a Soiled City on a Hill and a Wretched Hive of poverty, crime, and corruption — partly because Meredith is unconcerned with anything not related to hunting down and imprisoning apostate mages. After Viscount Dumar is publicly executed by the invading Arishok at the end of Act 2, Meredith fills the power vacuum and turns Kirkwall into an authoritarian dictatorship. This just caused Kirkwall to turn into an even bigger Wretched Hive, and her hard-nosed policy against mages just causes more and more of them to turn to Blood Magic and Demonic Possession out of fear and desperation to escape her iron grip. Her increased paranoia and madness also just cause more mage-related incidents, and her desire to compensate by having the Templars seize more and more control over the city just causes it to become even more dysfunctional than ever, eventually destroying the city in an all-out civil war.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_1ab9ad1d	comment	Killzone: The Helgasht's obsession with militarism and nationalism might look imposing, but it's like watching a bull try to China shop its way through interplanetary warfare. Their love for extravagant super weapons and iron fist rule? Yeah, that doesn't lead to victory parades. And their leaders can't seem to stop plotting against each other. It's like they took the fascist playbook and threw it in the trash compactor. But hey, at least they've got cool helmets, right?
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_1bed4aa1	comment	Scenarios from Rise of the White Sun routinely make you the leader of any given warlord clique in the 1920s China or at least make them a viable choice. Thus, your "default" is a militarised, right-wing dictatorship that's constantly boasting about unification by force, the glorious leader and how cool and awesome well-drilled and uniformed soldiers are. At the same time, you not only have to deal with the backward situation in China itself, with antiquated technology and ossified traditions, but your regime is in reality a ring of kleptomaniacs, thugs and power-hungry militarists that are too busy lining their own pockets and Stealing from the Till in the process. And that's on a good day, because the infighting within the clique can and will lead to the ruin of the faction, while preventing it requires paying favours to people that are known for being disloyal thieves. Even when having a perfect play, players will still be affected by various standard inefficiencies of being a Banana Republic dictatorship.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_1d37a131	comment	Cultstuck has the twelve canonical trolls running rings around the threshcutioner trainees sent to kill Karkat and anyone who knows him. The sequel, Earthbent, has a chapter that makes it clear why this was possible: nearly everyone involved in the investigation was either spectacularly incompetent or focusing on their personal drama rather than the task at hand, if not both. And because they expected the subordinates they sent to investigate for them to see too much, they sent either disposable pawns or people they actively wanted dead... none of which contributes to getting an accurate report back. It's implied that this is, in fact, completely normal for Alternia. By the end of the chapter, it's somewhat surprising that anyone actually noticed the replica Lance of the Summoner purposefully left in Karkat's hive for what it is... even though pictures of it have already been forwarded to one investigator's potential avenger and posted anonymously on the troll equivalent of the Internet.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_1f418bf4	comment	TaleSpin has the country of Thembria, where everything is accompanied by mountains of forms and paperwork, so a simple request or decision can take months to put into practice. The sole exception seems to be execution orders, which are rushed through in a few hours. The armament industry was so inefficient (or tied up in red tape) that the Thembrian Air Force never had any bullets and would resort to throwing whatever they DID have at enemy planes, including furniture, ship anchors, and cuts of bologna.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_22126d33	comment	Andor: Nemik is a firm believer that the Imperial's attempts at brutal subjugation are a self defeating effort to enforce their weak control, with fear rather than true power keeping them afloat, as he puts it "The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." This policy on a smaller scale at a massive Imperial prison complex allows Cassian to lead a succesful revolt fairly easily.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_23f5f4b6	comment	Harry Potter and the Lack of Lamb Sauce: According to Narcissa Malfoy, by the time Easter of 1998 rolls around, less than a year after the Ministry coup, the Death Eater-controlled Ministry is in shambles and about to fall apart by the seams.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant from The Simpsons is owned and run by C. Montgomery Burns, who has German roots and has, at various times, mentioned working for the Nazis during the Second World War. He likes to think that he rules his fiefdom with an iron fist and enjoys brutally exploiting his workers, cutting corners to the point of No OSHA Compliance, and thumbing his nose at government and regulatory oversight. However, he detests mingling with the riffraff so he isolates himself in his office and Smithers, his primary source of information about the plant's runnings, is a bootlicking lackey who doesn't want to upset Burns and his inner circle are all Yes Men so he doesn't have any real idea about what's going on. The rank and file, meanwhile, are a combination of corrupt and incompetent who harpor no real loyalty to Burns and slack off at every opportunity.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_28a11000	comment	Horizon Forbidden West: The Quen are implied to suffer this issue in their homeland. In the Burning Shores expansion, Compliance officer Rhengnote Basically Quen secret police puts a tail on a group of people that are looking to cause a rebellion, but conveniently ignores the fact that his fleet are in strange lands populated with dangerous machines and in a position where they can't afford to spare manpower. This winds up getting everyone but his tail killed, and even then, Aloy helps said tail break away from Rheng's hold, guaranteeing Rheng a place in the brig.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_2ae406c1	comment	In Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, the Police State government has a penalty to efficiency as a disadvantage. Combined with a planned economy for a full totalitarian government, and your faction will probably crash and burn from almost all income being lost to inefficiency. Subverted if you're playing as Yang, who is immune to inefficiency and thus has no downsides to running exactly this sort of government; his faction's philosophy is thoroughly deindividualizing and collectivist to the point of being almost inhuman, and so they can make this work.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_2c99814b	comment	In Primo Levi's memoir of Auschwitz, If This Is a Man, the author notes with some sarcasm that, for all that the camp was a highly efficient death machine, the Buna factory he was assigned to never produced a pound of synthetic rubber. That is to say, the process of creation as opposed to destruction was apparently beyond the capabilities of the camp administration.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_331e009	comment	Borderlands 2 has the city of Opportunity, built by Handsome Jack as his vision of utopia. In reality, it's a fascist dictatorship that's more or less a glorified monument to himself. It has elements of Bread and Circuses (people are paid to live there and gain a sizeable tax refund for listening to Blatant Lies about how he unlocked the Vault of the first game) as well as having death penalties for crimes such as littering and "verbal littering" (criticizing any of Opportunity's laws). It also doesn't help the fact that since it's located in the middle of Pandora, no sane person would want to move their family there in the first place. When the latter is pointed out to him by an employee, Jack has said employee's kids killed.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_33dd1d90	comment	The Combine Overwatch in Half-Life 2 don't seem to really care about the rebels operating a secret lab just blocks away from a major train station, and getting spies into Civil Protection seems to be as easy as joining Civil Protection, but once Gordon returns they waste no time going from oppressive to offensive, mobilising a massive manhunt to hunt Gordon down, and launching a huge raid on the entire canal system to clear out the rebel activity. When it's clear that Gordon is headed out of town, they begin mobilising the overwatch military to begin attacking outland settlements as well. Somehow, they never do find that lab, even though it does take battle damage and is abandoned in favor of a safer forest base around 2 weeks after the revolution begins. Later series revelations suggest the Combine's efficiency problem is simply that it's too huge for any kind of fine-detail work - it's a multidimensional partial Hive Mind civilisation with guiding intelligences that have difficulty thinking at the single-planetary level, let alone the neighbourhood level.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Adam Taurus is a supporter of Faunus supremacy and seeks to Take Over the World to achieve it, going so far as to kill Sienna Khan so he can take over the White Fang and lead them into a war against humanity. Sadly, throughout Volume 5, it's proven that while Adam is an excellent warrior, he's a horrible leader; he's hot-tempered, spiteful, and petty, and makes incredibly stupid moves that blow up in his face. On top of pushing away valuable allies like Salem's faction out of petty spite and bigotry, he proceeds to order the assassination of Blake's parents just to spite and hurt her; the assassination fails and provides just the means for Blake to rally the previously neutral citizens of Menagerie against him. When cornered at Haven, Adam attempts to blow himself and his troops up with everyone else instead of surrendering or risk trying to fight his way out, and when his troops are all subdued and arrested, he decides to simply make a break for it. Ilia predicts that no one in the White Fang will support or follow Adam after all of this, and come "Argus Limited," she's proven right; when Adam returns to his headquarters, his remaining men block his access to his throne, mock his failure at Haven, and make it clear they won't follow his orders anymore, leading to Adam flying into a rage and slaughtering them all. In Volume 8, fascism is represented by General Ironwood, who has crossed the Despair Event Horizon and convinced himself that the only possible option to stop Salem is to declare martial law and use the artifact she's after to lift Atlas into the upper atmosphere, leaving behind thousands of people to die. As the heroes point out, even if this does work, it would still mean abandoning an entire city to be destroyed by Salem. The heroes, by contrast, use said artifact to evacuate the vast majority of the population to relative safety, letting Atlas be destroyed but saving the people.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_36d6aa	comment	The Daevabad Trilogy: The djinn king Ghassan enforces his rule with brutal persecution of the part-djinn shafit who make up a third of his capital city, deliberate alienation of another third, and horrifically excessive punishments for any perceived insubordination. By the second book, it's such a Failed State that he can't properly equip his own armies or even clear garbage from the streets of the capital. His own son rebels against him in disgust.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys has Homelander, who for being rich in powers while weak in morals is an imposing Super Supremacist who manages to pull off a few atrocities and even convince the military to add superpowered people on the armed forces. But he's not omnipotent, given the fact of being a Slave to PR who can't fathom the possibility of the general public turning on him makes Homelander give up on certain things that could favor him, while also suffering a Villainous Breakdown once it's clear some of his former supporters are disillusioned with him.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_38e80aa6	comment	Kerberos Saga: The fascist Japanese government could write a book on being inefficient. With their heavily armoured Panzer Cops, you'd think they have it all figured out, but surprise, surprise, leftist revolts are popping up like mushrooms after a rainstorm, all thanks to their genius economic policies. What's a government to do? Call in the Panzer Cops, of course! But their reputation for brutality doesn't exactly win hearts and minds. Plus, they can't even keep their own government agencies from bickering like schoolyard rivals. So yeah, the whole operation was a hot mess, and it's no wonder the Panzers got the boot. Nice try, guys.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_3b34143f	comment	This appears to be the main function of the Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter. It didn't start out totally fascist (the incumbent Minister of Magic comes off as a very unflattering Expy of Tony Blair more than anything), but it surely didn't come off as very democratic. For example: The main wizarding prison is located at Azkaban, which is staffed by Dementors, evil creatures who suck the joy out of people. A place which by all accounts is A Fate Worse Than Death. There are apparently no other Wizarding prisons, so you get sent there whether you were convicted of murder or insurance fraud. It doesn't seem to bother any of the authorities that such an extreme punishment is guaranteed to turn anyone sentenced there either insane or evil (usually both) within a few weeks, not to mention driving criminals to extreme methods to avoid imprisonment; knowing this was in store for them, no wizard would ever surrender to the authorities. Additionally, since Dementors are Always Chaotic Evil, Dumbledore repeatedly warns the Ministry of the folly of using them as wardens, as Voldemort could make them all defect without a second thought simply by providing them with more opportunities to fill their bellies — simultaneously adding a legion of dark creatures to his followers and effortlessly releasing all the Death Eaters imprisoned in Azkaban. All this would be bad enough if everyone sentenced to Azkaban was actually guilty, but... well, see below. According to the Pensieve, trials seem to be decided more on the personal opinions of the judiciary (by simple majority vote) than on any actual consideration of evidence. Hagrid and Sirius weren't even afforded the luxury of a trial in the first place! The practice of being an Animagus requires government registration. We see how well this works because over the course of the books we know of at least four characters (James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and Rita Skeeter) who are illegal practicing Animagi. The relative ease with which they acquired their powers seems to indicate that this isn't really a magic type that can be easily regulated. Once Voldemort is exposed, the Ministry of Magic spends most of their time trying to pretend he doesn't exist. At one point this goes so far as to accuse Harry of lying when they detect him using powerful magic in the presence of a Muggle. Harry does this because he's being attacked by Dementors, and the Ministry at no point bothers to offer an alternate explanation as to why Harry would cast a spell whose only use is repelling dementors, in violation of a wizarding law which he was well aware of — apparently he was just doing it to aggravate the Ministry. (In fairness, the Patronus does have some uses outside of Dementor-stopping, being able to repel certain other Dark creatures and send messages, but he's got owls for the latter and the former wouldn't change anything.) Nor do they bother trying to answer the question of why he was attacked by Dementors in the first place — and then it turns out that one of their own (Dolores Umbridge) sent them to attack Harry. Voldemort's faction were this before and after they took power. When Voldemort accidentally did himself in attacking Harry, basically all of his followers either deserted him, got killed, or were sent to Azkaban. He only returned because Peter Pettigrew was desperate; Voldemort is very well aware that Peter wouldn't be there if he hadn't burned all his other bridges. Afterwards, even though the Death Eaters were in complete control of the Ministry, they spent more time enforcing their anti-muggleborn regulations and committing random acts of cruelty against muggles than actually hunting down La RÃ©sistance (which isn't helped by Voldemort's obsession with something mostly unrelated). The ministry might have the right to imprison lawbreakers indefinitely with no reason given, but the law is so incomprehensible, absolutely no one seems to follow it. Driven home by how one of the few sympathetic Ministry workers we see, Arthur Weasley, is so hopelessly in violation of the laws against enchanting Muggle technology, he'd "have to drag himself before the tribunal if he ever raided [his own] home" (and that's after deliberately writing loopholes into the regulations). It's also heavily implied that rich and influential families flout the few consistently enforced laws with "political donations". Not to mention how hindered they are by their Fantastic Racism against the muggles. The muggle and wizarding governments are apparently aware of each other, but only if you count the Minister for Magic occasionally popping into the Prime Minister's office without warning to give him vague updates on the magical world. One has to imagine that if they'd maybe asked muggles for some help, things like security cameras or guns would have given them a real leg up against the Death Eaters (though it's hard to say for sure, as some technologies tend to go haywire around too much magic, assuming they work at all).
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_3de0ef04	comment	Hamster's Paradise: The Purebloods are a civilization of tundra harmsters obsessed with maintaining cultural and genetic purity in front of the other harmster civilizations developing very divergent cultures and interbreeding with the other harmster species. As a result, they ruthlessly police themselves for any deviation from their ancestral culture and cull any member of their kind who shows any mutation or genetic impurity. This ultimately cripples their civilization, as their obsession with purity leaves them vulnerable to inbreeding and lacking in genetic diversity needed to resist disease, while their enforcement of "pure" culture also prevents them from developing any real technological advancement and allows the more advanced factions to devastate them when war breaks out.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_45854dfc	comment	In Starship Troopers, the military of the Federation (which is a federation in name only) is shown to be spectacularly arrogant, incompetent, and disorganised to the point of being Mildly Military: fraternisation between soldiers and Military Maverick behaviour is encouraged by the senior officers, a planetary invasion quickly turns into a panicked rout after only very light casualties, at one point a unit throws a frat party in the middle of enemy territory, and a rookie flight officer on her first field mission isn't so much as reprimanded for nearly crashing a giant starship in trying to show off her piloting skills.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Ankh-Morpork under Homicidal Lord Winder in Night Watch is portrayed as one of these, due to Winder's paranoia, and the excessive power he has therefore given his State Sec, the Cable Street Particulars, whose captain is a firm believer in judging a man's character by the shape of his face. As a result, the entire city is an illustration of the fact that a powerful man who believes he has enemies everywhere will eventually be correct.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_4a0e0645	comment	The Death of Stalin gives a variant. It's obviously about totalitarian communism, rather than fascism, but in spite of the ideological difference, the end result is a government that is both simultaneously horrifically brutal and laughably inefficient and corrupt. Stalin himself comes across as a small-minded thug, and when he dies with no clear protocol for the transfer of power, his cabinet quickly turns to political infighting and opportunism in trying to fill the power vacuum.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_4b6ea815	comment	Gorky Park shows the KGB to be incompetent compared to the regular police when it tries to do such simple tasks as taking crime scene photos.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_4c2f51af	comment	Beast Wars: Uprising: The Cybertron of the 24th century is run by the Builders, who are so ludicrously energy-inefficient they've actually ground to a halt. Rather than do the sensible thing, like downsize or fund research into more energy-efficient technologies, they spend their time enforcing idiotically strict laws on the Maximals and Predacons or forcing them into lethal deathmatches out of sheer spite. By the time of the first story, this means pretty much all of Cybertron is a decaying husk, with most cities just standing wrecks.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_4d9653ef	comment	Devils were portrayed as this in 2nd edition, particularly in the Planescape setting. As beings that are the epitome of Lawful Evil, they embody every negative trait about bureaucracies, especially when it comes to following rules that are detrimental to everyone. Starting with the 3rd Edition supplement Fiendish Codex 2: Tyrants of the Nine Hells, this trope has been almost entirely lost in favor as portraying them as being Repressive, but Efficient to the point of being Villain Sues.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_50062fc1	comment	In Wish Carefully, Harry Potter decides to strike a deal with Voldemort and the Death Eaters with a Magically-Binding Contract wherein he and the other Light-aligned wizards will leave Britain and make sure that the dark side will never have to deal with Muggles, muggleborns, or anyone else they don't like ever again. It isn't long after the Light-sided magicals exit the nation that the Death Eaters realize that they gave zero consideration into how to actually run a nation by themselves and their ideology has utterly screwed them over, leaving them with a society that is thoroughly and steadily falling apart via Death of a Thousand Cuts. Lucius Malfoy bitterly notes how the Light exiles had played them so thoroughly, leaving them to suffer in the Ironic Hell they made for themselves and show the rest of the global magical community what a load of bullcrap Pureblood Supremacy is, but also build their own flourishing society. The economy was the first major thing to be gutted in the Light's exile. The Death Eaters' membership was comprised mainly of either the wealthy aristocratic bloodlines (such as the Malfoys) or the criminal underclass (Dolohov and his ilk) whereas the middle and working classes primarily were comprised of muggleborns and Light supporters; with those people gone, there's no one around to run businesses, produce goods, or maintain vital infrastructure. The Death Eaters are thus forced to import the majority of their goods and food and rely on expensive goblin artificers to fix up any structural issues that they didn't have the skills or knowledge to do themselves. Most of the remaining Dark-supporting purebloods convinced themselves that the economy would sort itself out into something smaller and more efficient. By the time Lucius is an elderly man, they still haven't recovered. The pureblood supremacists' obsession with blood and cultural purity in the name of keeping their magic strong and exclusion of everyone but a select few have led to a much smaller gene pool after the exile, with increasing rates of inbreeding that is resulting in worsening Generational Magic Decline. Each succeeding generation is turning out more Squibs than the last while the few children who do have powers are so magically weak that they can barely complete the traditional seventh-year Hogwarts courses, their intellectual capabilities are greatly reduced (with Crabbe and Goyle being the preview of what was to come), and their numbers are declining on the whole due to their tendency to have small families. After finding themselves unable to get even Mail Order Brides, the Death Eaters resort to kidnapping a bunch of magically strong young witches from different areas around the world to use as Breeding Slaves, a band-aid solution that only manages to give the Dark-aligned purebloods at the most a few more generations to hold off the inevitable. While this is going on, Voldemort has increasingly become The Caligula, with the Death Eaters being the only ones around available for Voldemort to enact his sadistic whims on since they're completely forbidden from interacting with Muggles lest they be permanently stripped of their magic, and obsessed with introducing draconian laws controlling every aspect of people's lives. Thus, Magical Britain can't get any immigrants to fill out any gaps in the workforce or add to their population, further exacerbating those aforementioned issues. By the time Lucius is narrating the story, everyone has come to hate Voldemort so much, the Malfoys and several other Death Eaters are gathering together to either kill Voldemort themselves or subdue him and to deliver him to Harry Potter so that he can kill him for them.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_524e2e3b	comment	The Donald Duck War Time Cartoon "Der Fuehrer's Face" took Nazism to an absurd extreme, including its inefficiency. This means Donald has only a single coffee bean (that he had hidden), a block of wood (or possibly a loaf of bread so hard it needed to be cut with a saw), and a spray bottle of bacon flavoring to eat. Donald's workflow is constantly interrupted by photos of Hitler (which must all be heiled to individually or a dozen guards would threaten to shoot Donald) also placed on the assembly line. Many shells went past Donald unscrewed as he just couldn't keep up with the constantly changing size of the shells, the speed of the conveyor belt, or the random photographs he has to heil instead of doing his actual job.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_538ba773	comment	The Machineries of Empire: The Hexarchate is a totalitarian Galactic Superpower whose greatest enemy is its own people — it devotes more military and police power to stamp out "heretics", who are tortured to death en masse on holidays, than to any external threat, which only encourages more rebellion and broadens the definition of "heresy".
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_53a4065a	comment	Transformers: Shattered Glass: Unlike many examples, the Autobot Imperium actually seems to function reasonably well despite a) being extremely fascistic, b) subscribing to such an extreme vision of Might Makes Right that hospitals are decried as "coddling", and c) their leader Optimus Prime being rightfully described as insane. Optimus also develops two superweapons over the course of the storyline: the heavily-armed Ark and the sentient super robot Omega Doom. In both cases, he would've won if not for things he couldn't have reasonably predicted. In the Ark's case, he added so many weapons that the Ark's launch pad was strained (which he'd accepted). He couldn't have expected that a heroic Cliffjumper (from the Marvel Comics Transformers series) would arrive and share the schematics to glass gas with the Decepticons, allowing them to make the launchpad so brittle it collapsed under the weight of the Ark. In Omega Doom's case, Omega was defeated by Nexus Prime, one of the Thirteen Primes and a literal demigod. The reason why the Imperium is doing pretty well is that Optimus is extremely pragmatic. For example, despite their derision for hospitals, there are still hospitals because Optimus recognizes that even the best warriors can get banged up, and because "treatment" can also overlap with "punishment". He will certainly pull a You Have Failed Me, but it's possible to talk him out of it (the way Grimlock did). And to Cliffjumper's confusion and horror, Optimus averts Never Recycle Your Schemes. When he decides to launch the Ark a second time, he reinforces the launch pad with stone, which is immune to glass gas. He's even a kind of Benevolent Boss to his most loyal followers, even promising Ironhide his own star system to rule once the Autobot conquest of the galaxy began in earnest.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_56fa0ea4	comment	In Civilization I and II, despotism has large losses to corruption, waste, and reduced production output for tiles producing more than 2 of a resource. Communism and Fundamentalism are aversions, having very low corruption loss, despite being thematically similar to despotism. Civilization III splits Fascism from Despotism, where its corruption amount is comparable to Republic, but has other penalties that reduce city size and limitation of culture if a city has more foreign nationals than your nationals. In Civilization V, being a military-focused civ means not only is your economy going to suffer (building and maintaining an army is VERY expensive) but you also will most likely miss out on building Wonders (which give great bonuses to your civ; admittedly, conquering somebody else's Wonder can be just as good as building it yourself), and get penalties to your culture. Being a warmonger pretty much paints a target on your back, as the other civilizations in the game will turn hostile against you (effectively shutting down any trade negotiations you may have had with them). In the Civilization: Call to Power series, Tyranny is the starting government and is extremely poor in almost all areas. Later in the game, Fascism and Communism supply good production and strong military support, but with weaker economies and can support fewer cities than Democracy, the other government at about the same position on the tech tree. (Technocracy is an aversion, however. This government is pretty much Nineteen Eighty-Four, but is a highly efficient government, although with slightly different bonuses to other late-game ones.)
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_5921531c	comment	In Persona 5, ultranationalist Corrupt Politician and Big Bad Masayoshi Shido was the head of a Government Conspiracy that initially appears to be an all-powerful force with members across various sectors of Tokyo. But once the Phantom Thieves pull the wool over their eyes by faking Joker's death, they prove surprisingly incompetent. They do a shoddy job in making sure Joker is actually dead, classifying him as dead without even bothering to check the body, resulting in the Thieves breaking into the Palace unopposed and making it to the Treasure Room as they would any other, the conspiracy losing their Only Sane Man Akechi (seemingly to Shido's cognition of him, no less), and Joker's survival coming to light through the Calling Card, by which time it's too late to stop Shido's downfall. Not only that, Shido has a bad habit of offing those who either failed him or don't show enough loyalty to him, and a close glance reveals that with the exception of Akechi, his followers are just a bunch of bootlickers and opportunists who are either too terrified to disagree with Shido or incompetent to do their jobs properly. Even more damagingly, his lackeys sometimes get in each other's way; an example is Kaneshiro's goons extorting Shujin Academy students, putting Principal Kobayakawa in a bind since he'll be murdered if he tells Kaneshiro that Shujin students are off limits but the situation is threatening to cause another PR disaster mere months after Kamoshida's downfall as well as possibly leading to him being fired by the school district for turning a blind eye to students in need. This utter mess ends up driving Makoto into the ranks of the Phantom Thieves and causing them to target Kaneshiro, costing the conspiracy a source of funds. In hindsight, the Greater-Scope Villain's external manipulation of the public was the only way this rabble of idiots could have got even slightly close to taking over Japan.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_5a3dae52	comment	In Misfits, time travel causes the Nazis to have won the war, and Shaun is the head of the Wertham precinct. He is still, however, Shaun.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_5b075d7c	comment	In Fable III, Logan ends up running his parents' kingdom to the ground in an attempt to prepare Albion against an Eldritch Abomination and generally kicking the dog in order to teach you, his younger sibling, to be equally prepared. However he keeps kicking the dog even when it does nothing but makes things worse, and when you usurp the throne it turns out that much like your parent before you, making obscene amounts of money without being a jerkass is just a case of investing and maintaining real estate.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_5cd1aa89	comment	Nineteen Eighty-Four: While the government of Oceania as it appears in the original text by Orwell is most decidedly not thisnote it's an absolute crap show in terms of living conditions, but said hellish living conditions are one more tool of oppression, so the government is horrifyingly efficient in the one thing they give a damn about: being a boot on humanity's face, a parodic short story by Alan Coren titled "Owing To Circumstances Beyond Our Control, 1984 Has Been Unavoidably Detained" plays it straight: it took so long to get Winston because telescreens are breaking down and informants are idiots, and when Winston is dragged to Room 101 the Ministry of Love is out of budget and lacking implements to torture him with (the famous scene of torturing him with a rat does not happens because winter wiped them out).
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_5d1b7e1f	comment	In Hearts of Iron mod The New Order: Last Days of Europe, the Axis powers win World War II through a combination of luck and the Allied powers constantly shooting themselves in the foot between 1920 and 1940. Unfortunately for them, Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs hard and all major axis powers find themselves on the brink of collapse in the 1960s. The Nazis' ambitious plans for Europe has left their economy in shambles and heading towards an inevitable civil war, the Italians have been liberalizing to save their economy, and Japan's infighting has left it paralyzed in the face of rebellious puppets in the Co-Prosperity Sphere and an increasingly bold United States. Speer's path for the Reich plays with this trope. It is one of the most efficient paths available to Germany, and it is classified as Fascist, but this is because it represents a dialing down of the insanity of Nazism and reforming things in a more pragmatic, rational direction — it isn't efficient so much as less inefficient. Fittingly, there is some implication that between the three paths Speer's Germany can go on at the end of current content, it is the (Authoritarian) Democrat path that repudiates Fascism against Speer's wishes, with him reduced to a puppet of his reformist advisors that makes for the most efficient, working Germany. This trope is especially prominent in countries following the ideology of Esoteric Nazismnote better known by its pre-Toolbox Theory name, the Burgundian System, which represents the most extreme, genocidal, and insane forms that Hitler's ideology can take. None of the playable Esoteric Nazi countries can survive for more than a few years (with the sole exception of Burgundy, which is still bound to collapse in a decade or so), so destructive they are in their totalitarianism.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_5e150650	comment	The Realm in Exalted is this by design. The Scarlet Empress made sure there were several redundant agencies for every area (so that they couldn't get anything done without her to mediate between them), and her armies were constantly conquering and losing territory at the edge of the empire without ever winning any permanent victories (thus keeping the soldiers well-trained and providing a handy, distant conflict to send over-ambitious people off to die in). Her disappearance and the resulting in-fighting between the Houses has only made things worse.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_60425b68	comment	Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters: This is what has become of Prince Phobos' regime, in that he's too self-centered to realize that the people rebelling against him have justified reasons to and that the nobility and his own men are attempting to distance whatever authority they can get away from him. His guards even make it a point to protect the people first and not him. That being said, there are still good people in his army who will fight the rebels, who have committed crimes that must be punished.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_629cd094	comment	Dragon Age: Origins: After leaving King Cailan to die in battle, Teyrn Loghain declares himself Regent to the widowed queen, his daughter Anora, and tries to rule Ferelden with an iron fist. He also employs the ruthless Arl Rendon Howe as his right hand, due to a mistaken belief that Howe's ruthlessness belies political cunning and willingness to do what's needed to keep the nobles in line. This backfires horribly: Loghain's bald-faced power grab and iron fist cause an outright civil war, and Howe's attempt to keep the nobility in line with kidnappings, torture, assassinations, and so on just drives more nobles into resisting and destroys any credibility Loghain had. It doesn't help that this is going on while Ferelden is being invaded by a Blight, so trade, commerce, and travel all across the country has ground to a halt, and with any military force that could oppose them locked in civil war, the darkspawn have free rein to run rampant and lay waste to half of Ferelden. Finally, Loghain's unwillingness to address the country's problems in favor of "securing their border" with Orlais eventually leads to the Player Character routing his public support as the only way to defeat the Blight with their own army and defeating him politically in a Landsmeet.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House: The closest thing to a functioning government the Boiling Isles has seems to be the Emperor and his coven acting as peacekeepers. There seems to be no instituted checks and balances in place and law-enforcement can be as brutal as they want, Lilith's constant bending of the rules with no perceived demerits on her part implying that nobody can hold them accountable for any miscarriages of justice they could commit. All practitioners of magic are to join a Coven - which would cut them off from using any form of magic that is not their hat - or be branded a criminal. Any law-breakers, ranging from those who reject joining any covens like Eda or simply being "abnormal" (like making fanfiction or being a Conspiracy Theorist), are sent to the Conformatoriam where they will be imprisoned and tortured at the Warden's leisure. With this in mind, the Boiling Isles is still a lawless cesspit populated by demons who would kill you, eat you, enslave you, rip you off, and every other manner of horror with law enforcement either absent or apathetic to it. Just the fact that the Owl House seems to be an Open Secret, yet it takes luring the Owl Lady to the Emperor's castle with Luz as bait in "Agony of the Witch" in order to capture her, is a sign that the Emperor's Coven only has a superficial grip on things. This could be Justified when it is revealed that the Emperor's reign has only existed for 50 years, meaning that while the Emperor's Coven has been around long enough to establish its authority, such authority has yet to sink in ideologically for all of its inhabitants and thus his coven is prioritizing showing force over constructive order. Of course, given Belos' ultimate goal is to kill everyone in the Demon Realm, it's possible he simply doesn't care enough to enforce any rules that don't directly contribute to his plan.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_695bc26c	comment	Ostania in SPYÃ—FAMILY has a very oppressive Secret Police reminiscent of the Schutzstaffel who arrest people for things such as publishing magazines that tarnish the country's reputation or even rumors of people cheating on their spouses. They're also far less competent than their Westalis counterparts, to the point a diplomat from there was better protected from assassination by his own nation's spy network than local security.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_69fad9a5	comment	The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum: It was already well-established that TCB!Equestria (aka, the Solar Empire) is a Crapsaccharine World, but it's not until the Calm Before the Storm side story comes along and shows just how bad it all really is. First off, the truly massive number of newfoals coming into Equestria has overstretched their resources to the breaking point. Making things worse is that the barrier vaporizes everything in its path (agriculture, infrastructure, buildings, materials, and information about how to create these things), leaving the conquered lands useless to the Imperials; in short, the barrier may be the only thing truly giving the Solar Empire an edge against humanity (as it's clear the war would've been over a lot sooner without it) but they're also screwing themselves over as they're destroying the very resources they could've used to more easily shoulder their explosive population growth and colonize Earth. Moreover, the war has gone on for so long and has been so brutal that morale is at an all-time low, with only fanaticism and terror being able to hold their heads above the water, and even that is coming apart at the seams.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: This is very explicit that the Drow's Chronic Backstabbing Disorder-based society is completely untenable. They spend most of their energy fighting each other instead of the various horrible abominations that also inhabit the Underdark, being sneaky and backstabby doesn't actually translate into running things well, but does translate into killing off all the actually competent drow, and their abusive matriarchy means that half their population can't advance and are prone to being killed off for no reason. It's basically explicit that the sole reason the drow remain active is that their goddess Lolth micromanages their civilization while encouraging the self-destructive behaviour that makes her divine assistance necessary, in a particularly grand (and occasionally literal) Poison and Cure Gambit. Devils were portrayed as this in 2nd edition, particularly in the Planescape setting. As beings that are the epitome of Lawful Evil, they embody every negative trait about bureaucracies, especially when it comes to following rules that are detrimental to everyone. Starting with the 3rd Edition supplement Fiendish Codex 2: Tyrants of the Nine Hells, this trope has been almost entirely lost in favor as portraying them as being Repressive, but Efficient to the point of being Villain Sues.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_70814599	comment	The Goa'uld in Stargate SG-1 are as fascist and inefficient as you can get, which is why the heroes lasted as long as they did; for all their technology and power the snake heads were more interested in using it to bolster their ego and fight amongst themselves, the sole exceptions being Anubis and Baal. In this case, it's because the fascism and inefficiency were inseparable, as the Goa'uld are Always Chaotic Evil and sought power purely for power's sake, and did things like randomly killing some of their cowering slaves or throwing away valuable troops in pointless slaughters not because it might accomplish something, but because being needlessly evil was the goal in itself. Justified, as the Goa'uld primarily only fight each other and primitive civilizations. Their weapons are mostly meant to be intimidating and impressive. No need for efficiency when you're a god.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_71afc72f	comment	The Proteus Operation: It is repeatedly commented on that the Nazi system is both inefficient and unable to create new things. Research into how the Nazis of the 1975 timeline got a nuclear bomb shows that their researchers were floundering, and then suddenly there was a bomb because it was given to them from the future.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Dai Li, the de facto government of Ba Sing Se, was a group that was more interested in keeping the city peaceful by forbidding all discussion of the war and isolating the continuous flow of refugees than actually organizing much in the way of actual coordinated strategy or doing anything to improve the lot of the refugees. The conspiracy was so inefficient that their actions guaranteed the eventual defeat of the Earth Kingdom, leaving Ba Sing Se nearly defenseless against Fire Nation siege engines (at a time when the Fire Nation proves it is not in Medieval Stasis) and the entire rest of the Kingdom is falling around them. Taken to something of its logical conclusion when Azula (the princess of an actually efficient Fascist government) manages to bring the Dai Li under her control, seizing power over the city and effectively conquering the Earth Kingdom. The Earth Kingdom stays completely incompetent in The Legend of Korra, where the secret airbender conscript training goes so far as to discourage teamwork and protecting your allies, apparently because Earth Kingdom culture reveres blundering idiocy or something. Again, taken to its logical conclusion when the entire Kingdom falls apart in spectacular fashion once the Earth Queen is assassinated and the walls separating the dirt-poor Lower Ring from the decadent and obscenely wealthy Upper and Middle Rings are brought down. And like in the previous series, the next regime was a fascist dictatorship that was NOT run by morons. Even the Fire Nation is not immune to this trope, and they were only efficient in relative terms. Interservice Rivalry is fairly common between army and navy, and commanding officers are corrupt and ambitious Glory Hounds who favor strong arm methods rather than precise tactics that they tend to kill their own soldiers quite frequently either by themselves or by just crushing the enemy with sheer force and numbers. It becomes rather telling that the military has been having trouble maintaining control over various Earth Kingdom provinces since Earth Kingdom citizens' greatest strength is their determination. Even within the mainland, resources are mostly dedicated to building its military usually at the expense of backwater villages that are unable to have access to food and water. And there are even towns that are rife with crime that Dirty Cops are easily bribed and can't be bothered to deal with maintaining order.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_73d7930f	comment	The Cardassians from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. They are explicitly fascist, and yet are the only major power of the Alpha Quadrant to suffer from resource shortages, compared to the post-scarcity Federation, Klingon Empire, and Romulan Star Empire—the latter two of which are authoritarian regimes themselves. Cardassians make extensive use of slave labor that is primitive by the standards of today, to say nothing of the 24th century. The workers are basically equipped with pick axes and buckets to mine with like they're in ancient Egypt. Keep in mind that Cardassians are a warp-capable civilization. There's basically no real reason they should rely on this as much as they do other than the fact they enjoy oppressing species perceived as "lesser". Even Terok Nor, a space station, was reliant on slaves doing back-breaking labor for its ore processing when the Cardassians could've easily automated much of the process. It's made worse because it is mentioned several times that yields and productivity were a concern, but at no point did the Cardassians ever consider moving to more efficient methods because it would mean not making Bajorans suffer. Worse, their brutality requires them to constantly divert resources to put down resistance and insurgency, which contributed to the liberation of Bajor since the occupation of that planet became completely untenable. Their government exists in a similarly precarious state: while the Central Command holds the most power in Cardassian society, it is ultimately illegitimate and is dependent on the Obsidian Order to maintain control over the general population. The Order in turn is fully willing to wield its authority against Central Command too if it's to their benefit. When the Obsidian Order is Lured into a Trap by the Founders and promptly decimated, it doesn't take long for Central Command to implode and the Detapa Council to sideline them, oh-so-briefly restoring Cardassia's democracy... before Gul Dukat, who perhaps should have been forced to resign given his involvement in the occupation of Bajor, sells the Cardassian Union out to the Dominion. Then of course, there's their species' hat of Complexity Addiction. Throughout TNG and DS9, the Cardassians repeatedly indulge in convoluted plots intended to discredit the Federation... which generally tend to blow up in their faces. Despite this, Cardassians are quick to flaunt their values of order and present a veneer of efficiency that brings to mind many a similar claim made by real life fascists.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_79e5e7c2	comment	Much like the Ministry of Magic in-canon, the Ministry in Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past is presented this way as well. When Harry has Peter Pettigrew arrested by ministry officials, providing unavoidable proof of Sirius' innocence, they completely change guards and wardens at Azkaban and deny visitation rights to them, trying to starve Sirius to death in his cell and pretend nothing has changed rather than admit that the Ministry made a mistake. Harry later lampshades this corruption in his interview with Rita.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_7c802b66	comment	Brazil takes place in a fascist dystopia where Byzantine bureaucracy and malfunctioning Schizo Tech have made the government both extremely repressive and incredibly incompetent. The plot is triggered when someone arrests Buttle (shoemaker) thinking he's Tuttle (a renegade plumber) because of a typo. And Tuttle is a renegade plumber because the government cannot fulfill requests for plumbing repairs, yet outlaws anyone else from doing it.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Star Wars: The Old Republic: Even at the finest eras of the Sith Empire, the infrastructure is crumbling or nonexistent, and everyone from two-bit officials to the Sith theocracy is too busy backstabbing each other or fearing their underling's constant attempts at invoking Klingon Promotion to accomplish anything. Add an untenable reliance on slave labor and a boatload of Fantastic Racism against every non-human (or non-Sith) species, in a galaxy with over twenty million sentient species. In the later storylines Darth Marr takes acts to try and fix this, enacting pro-alien policies as well as trying to curb some of the Empire's worse habits (particularly the rampant backstabbing/politicking). Somewhat subverted with the Eternal Empire. While Valkorion was Immortal Emperor, the empire had its golden age, making incredible progress in science and society, to the point that people actually got bored of how awesome everything was. If Valkorion kept the throne, it's unlikely that the Outlander would have the shadow of a chance. His children, on the other hand, were so tyrannical that the Zakuulans were lining up to volunteer for the Alliance.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The chapter The scouring of the Shire shows us that Otho and then Sharkey, with their army of men had seized power over the Shire, destroying the government, changing the Hobbit's institutions to spy on them, and arresting those who oppose them, looting under the excuse of "fair distribution", giving a lot of stupid rules, building ugly buildings and destroying all of the forest and polluting the rivers. And the army of men is nothing but bandits that are defeated relatively easily when four Hobbits rally the people against them. This is intentional, meant to show the Villain Decay of Saruman, who had plans to take control of Middle-Earth, but ends up just bullying Hobbits largely out of spite.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_807563b0	comment	Empire revolves around a superhero setting where the Big Bad and his legion of supervillains actually managed to win and took over the world. The resulting government is exactly as corrupt, decadent, and inefficient as youâ€™d expect a society run by nutjob super-criminals to be, with said Big Bad having to constantly stamp out infighting and betrayal attempts, while barely anything gets done. By the end of the story, the Empire is obviously starting to come apart at the seams, and even Golgoth himself privately admits that it will almost certainly collapse the second anything happens to him.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_81706932	comment	The Running Man has this in spades. The totalitarian society's enforcers are distracted by their own Bread and Circuses. We hear the guards making small talk about how they never miss an episode of the Running Man, the network's jingle writer Amber Mendez excuses her purchases of black market clothing (when the protagonist Ben Richards discovers them) by saying "C'mon, everyone does it!" and the unedited footage she later discovers and retrieves that exposes all the regime's lies about him may well have been retained through sheer laziness, i.e. the TV station's bureaucrats never throw anything away.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_817acecf	comment	Fables: The Adversary's Empire does a ruthlessly efficient job of conquering the Homelands, but once firmly in control they become paranoid and often execute advisors and magicians after they're done being useful; the Emperor himself notes that by focusing so much on possible threats from within, they've become extraordinarily vulnerable to threats from without. Boy Blue is able to do tremendous damage to the government armed with just the vorpal sword and the witching cloak.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_84dfb5d5	comment	Galactic Civilizations: the four main structures of government are an Imperial dictatorship and three different subsets of democracy. Imperial is massively less useful economically than the others, with the comparatively tiny benefit of not having to stage elections at semi-random intervals.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_86ac9c99	comment	Depending on the Game Master, Alpha Complex, the setting of Paranoia, can range from a well-oiled totalitarian machine to a dysfunctional cesspit of inefficiency, incompetence, and intrigue. The game manual also recommends that when dealing with very high-ranking antagonists, the GM should play them as fascist and efficient, and play their efficiency for as much horror value as the rampant inefficiency of the lower levels. Waiting for a meeting with your secret society contact? He was arrested because he wasn't supposed to be there.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_880cfa15	comment	Hogan's Heroes: Even halfway competent officers like Burkhalter and Hochstetter get the run around from Hogan and his men when they're not stomping on each other's toes or trying to ally with the Heroes in an attempted Enemy Mine. This was Enforced by a number of their actors (several of whom were victims of Nazi persecution in real life), who asked that the Germans be portrayed as bumbling losers as part of their contracts rather than lend credence to the regime that harmed them in the first place. It was explicitly stated several times that everyone knew the camp leaders were incompetent nincompoops, but as the only camp with a perfect "no prisoner escapes" record they were willing to put up with it.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_8c7237b3	comment	Wilhuff Tarkin, Hero of the Rebellion: Tarkin regularly argues against the Empire's more brutal actions, citing their inefficiency. While his actual reasons are Everyone Has Standards, his arguments gain even the notoriously cruel Emperor's agreement, who asks a general that ordered the population of an entire planet to be killed with Ion Disruptors (that is, anti-tank weapons) if he thinks Darth Vader has an ATM built into his torso. In addition to the above, the Empire has efficiency experts... Who, among other things, have deprived infantry squads of their integral repeating blasters and deleted flak cannons from many warships in the name of supposed efficiency... Thus heavily reducing the firepower of infantry squads until the Imperial Army brass used the increased casualty rate to reintroduce the repeating blasters (that they're still resisting) and making warships extremely vulnerable to starfighters with proton weapons. The military loathes them, and Tarkin is openly surprised when the one he's being forced to work with turns out to actually know what he's talking about.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_8f8df73b	comment	The Lion King has Scar allude in his Villain Song to the tremendous injustice he suffered when Mufasa became king instead of him, and implies that he's been scheming to take the throne for years. Scar proves to be an expert Chessmaster in murdering Mufasa and manipulating Simba into running away, but when he finally obtains the power he craves he proves to be utterly incompetent at actually wielding it. Under his leadership, he indulges the hyenas' greed (forcing the prey to leave), his subjects starve, and the hyenas who form his power base are grumbling long before Simba ever comes back, admitting Scar's brother was better at ruling than him. For some reason, he thinks the grumbling is because he hasn't secured the succession, rather than the fact that everyone's starving. Finally, his inefficiency and trying to blame the hyenas leads to them eating him.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_909b004d	comment	The Transformers (IDW): Zigzagged in the backstory of the original IDW Transformers comics. At their peak, the Decepticons had an actual star-spanning empire with massive fleets, engaging in titanic battles with the Autobots across the galaxy. By the time the Transformers get involved on Earth, both sides are fielding, at best, a mere dozen or so combatants per world to take over planets relying on infiltration tactics. The Decepticons still have Fascist tendencies, but the Cybertronian race has been so whittled down by millions of years of war and wasted resources that they have no choice but to be more efficient. Also in the backstory, Autobot leader Zeta Prime took increasingly draconian and then outright monstrous actions in his attempts to stop the Decepticons. This wound up turning Orion Pax (aka the future Optimus Prime) against him, along with many others. At first Orion was a firm supporter, but the more fascistic Zeta became the more people began to turn against the Autobots, and once Zeta unveiled his Vampiric Dampners (weapons designed to leech the very energy out of a Cybertronian to use against them), Orion and like-minded Autobots rebelled.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech: This is just one of the problems with the rule of Romano Liao. Taking over from her father, who had simultaneously been driven mad and gone senile by a brilliant long-con by their hated enemy Hanse Davion, she was able to rally her shattered realm by virtue of rampant authoritarianism and unflinching cruelty. However, in so doing, she also kneecapped the Capellan Confederation's development for decades as a result due to a mixture of widespread unrest and looming existential dread among its citizens, given how any of them could now expect to be executed for even the most minor of missteps. When the Clans came calling to conquer the Inner Sphere, she proved to be about as useful as a balloon animal in a cactus farm and pulled out of the defensive effort altogether. It takes her eventual assassination to give her much more rational and pragmatic son Sun Tzu Liao the opportunity to take over the realm and steer it in a healthier direction. This problem also follows Stefan Amaris. A manipulative bastard, firm believer in police state authoritarianism, and unblinking sociopath, Stefan's policies were always built on control and oppression. While this meant he could conquer the heart of the Star League, he couldn't rule it because his sadistic directives led to constant outbreaks of rebellion and the entire Star League Defense Force coming for him. His overwhelming cruelty eventually led to him being captured on Earth... and within a bare thirty minutes of said capture, being put to a wall and shot on the spot for his crimes against the state and human decency in general.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_974a8fb0	comment	In Beholder 2: One sidequest has you investigate why window 101 is closed, it turns out the clerk at the window died at his workstation a week ago and no one noticed before you did.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_9888a110	comment	In The Man in the High Castle, the fact that there are multiple factions within the Nazi establishment — notably the Abwehr and the SD — whose remits overlap and who hate each other's guts, proves to be highly significant to the plot.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_99041728	comment	Transformers: War for Cybertron: According to Word of God, the Decepticon capital of Kaon is a dark, ramshackle place to mimic how the Decepticons (with their Might Makes Right thinking) just aren't interested in building a functional government.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_99c003af	comment	The Boondocks: The court system seems to spend most of its time interrogating innocent people, then failing to protect them on the rare occasion they admit to knowing something and then losing the case due to jury nullification. This is the justification Huey offers for why the Black community seems to have an irrational aversion to snitching, though he doesn't seem to endorse the practice himself.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_9cefc9f8	comment	Some of the segments in the Macross Delta fanfic How Roid's Plan Could Have Backfired Horribly are based on the question of just how Windermere, a planet with an almost completely agrarian economy and completely dependant on Epsilon Foundation for their military hardware, that they paid for with rare fold quartz, could maintain a military capable of conquering and occupying a whole sector of space, even a backwater one. The answer is by starving their population, resulting in the presence of a continued NUN-loyalist resistance movement and, on a few occasions, armed insurrections-something they should have seen coming, as stated by Berger, the Epsilon Foundation representative, in a very annoyed "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Cleon "The Butcher King" (so named because he used to be a butcher, though he fits this title in both ways) becomes King of Astapor after Daenerys eliminates the "Good Masters", the tyrannical ruling class of the city. Cleon tries to make his own Unsullied (eunuch soldiers who are renowned as among the best fighters in the world due to a brutal training regime) by just castrating youths from the former ruling Houses. However, the new regime starts collapsing under Cleon, leading to his murder, several rulers who quickly die themselves, and the untrained Unsullied quickly being slaughtered by the sellswords hired by the city of Yunkai. The Yunkai'i, another city of slavers, is run by the Wise Masters, who are some of the most laughably incompetent villains in the series. Their various armed forces include a group of slaves who are chained together to stop them from running away and men standing on stilts. Despite the poor quality of Cleon's Unsullied the Yunkai'i are almost defeated anyway, having to be saved by the sellswords they look down on. However, to the sellswords the Wise Masters are a laughing stock, being given names such as Lord Wobblecheeks, the Little Pigeon, and the Drunken Conqueror. When their General "The Yellow Whale" dies they decide to rearrange command daily, leading to chaos as their military plans keep changing.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: The country of Wano is suffering a terrible famine under the tyrannical rule of the shogun Orochi. Everywhere outside of the Flower Capital is a lawless wasteland poisoned by industrial runoff where little grows and anyone can be executed on sight for simply speaking ill of the shogun (or for no real reason at all). Most of the country's population lives in extreme poverty where entire villages may die of starvation. Meanwhile, Orochi and his closest associates in the Flower Capital endlessly indulge in disgustingly wasteful decadence. We find out it's so inefficient on purpose because Orochi is deliberately turning Wano into a hellhole and causing mass suffering of its populace as revenge for treating his family line like dirt for so long.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_9eb9a191	comment	Possibly the most Nazi line of all time, in The Train: "I'm tired of your inefficiency, Dietrich!" Which is said when Dietrich says that he can't do something for the simple reason that it's impossible with the resources they have at hand.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin: The nation of Borduria. When Tintin and Captain Haddock sneak into the country to rescue the kidnapped Professor Calculus, they repeatedly manage to evade the Bordurian army, police force, and secret service, to the point where they manage to get rid of the Bordurian agents sent to tail them by getting them drunk. Humorously, it was lampshaded by Herge himself, who named the agents Kronik and Klumsi. When Tintin & Co. escape the country in a stolen Bordurian tank, Tintin doesn't notice until too late that the Bordurian troops have laid anti-tank mines right in their path - and the tank drives right over them, leaving the troops to rant that the factory sent them a crate of duds. Same goes for San Theodoros, where the two dictators, General Alcazar and General Tapioca, are both so ineffective they constantly overthrow each other in the blink of an eye.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: Britannia enforces ethnic inequality. The Japanese get 20 years for going on a drug binge, there are public mass executions, etc. Britannian gangsters, by contrast, live in huge buildings visible to everyone and don't seem to fear any legal repercussions whatsoever. One gangster nearly kills a (Britannian) student to protect his reputation as a chess player and is only stopped by a sudden attack from Zero's Black Knights. They also act more or less with impunity. But what do they expect when the Emperor openly approves of murder and theft in his public speeches as strength overcoming weakness?
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_a69d1aaa	comment	The Elkis Republic in The Fallen World bearly holds itself together through propaganda as its corrupt Senators are more concerned with lining their own pockets than improving the nation. They have repeatedly attacked their neighbors to expand their borders but in recent years have gotten beaten back and even lost territory. Now they can't afford to lose a newly built town and its newborn dungeon or else they will be seen as weak in the eyes of the people and invite a rebellion.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_a9570fac	comment	Zig-zagged in Victoria with the protagonists faction being highly efficient fascists, but the Republic of Azania, a Lady Land inhabiting a Crapsack World that is one of the setting's most scientifically and technologically advanced nations, with a working industrial economy in a largely post-apocalyptic future America, and able to equip their troops accordingly. On the other hand, its critical personnel shortage forces them to have badly trained pilots fly their advanced fighters, which significantly dents their advantage in the air.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_aacd24cb	comment	StarCraft: Both Terran Governments we get to see are portrayed as fascist, dictatorial, and extremely ineffective; at the beginning of the game, the Confederation is clearly hated by almost everybody due to their policy of nuking rebellious planets, and it's quite clear the regime was already dying before Arcturus raised a rebel army of his own that destroyed it. Afterwards, his Terran Dominion seems slightly more effective, but just as oppressive, and ends up rather easily destroyed by the UED. While he manages to rebuild it between the end of Brood War and StarCraft II, it's implied the only reason he lasted so long was that Kerrigan didn't consider him worth killing. The very moment she decides to go on the warpath against him again, his Dominion is crushed, and the drastic measures he attempts to save it only end up making things worse. Mengsk also has one of the traits of Real Life fascist militaries down: his lust for enormous ego-stroking superweapons. At the height of the zerg invasion on the Dominion, he spends an enormous amount of resources to produce the Odin, a mammoth walking tank packed with every armament imaginable, up to and including nukes. Raynor's men steal it, and after having some fun with it, declare it useless as a practical weapon and discard it, only for Mengsk to decide to bring it out again when the Zerg and Raiders launch a joint invasion of Korhal. The Protoss Conclave is shown to be utterly incompetent in defending Aiur against the Zerg invasion due to their insistence of relying on traditional protoss tactics (which aren't at all effective against a Zerg Rush) and constant refusal to accept help from the Dark Templar for ideological reasons, even though the Dark Templars possess exactly what is needed to defeat the Zerg. They also refuse Terran help, again for "ideological" reasons. Unsurprisingly, they are the first to get exterminated by the time of Brood War. Defied by Kerrigan, of all people, in Heart of the Swarm when she decides, despite Abathur's recommendations, to grant her Broodmothers more free will and individuality, as she feels the Swarm would be more effective if they are capable of thinking by themselves and taking initiative rather than being just mindless slaves.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_ac719b97	comment	Stargate: Ra doesn't use Jaffa soldiers, preferring to rely on humans (in a meta sense, it's justified, as the Jaffa hadn't been thought of yet, but in-universe, it was ludicrously stupid) and he doesn't seem to have brought more than two death gliders, that pretty much are only used for intimidation tactic. No wonder you were taken down by a ragtag group of Earth military and primitive natives.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_ac978b2	comment	Played with in Caliphate. Most superpowers are fascist regimes such as America and China, but at least they are more technologically advanced and only liberal by comparison to the titular caliphate, which is considered extremely backwards and decayed. For one thing, their economy is very fragile, reliant completely on non-Muslims paying the taxes and only them, and they are running out of slaves fast with their increasing persecution. They are culturally stagnant, due to a fierce Church Police declaring even drawings illegal — a Chinese agent comments the only thing they produce of note is fanaticism. It speaks something when they are reliant on renegade scientists to create a biochemical weapon to destroy all their enemies at once because their military performance is too poor.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_af95b79	comment	Death Star is riddled with moments of these on board the Death Star as it's built and becomes operational. A lot of problems during the building are solved by throwing money at them because the budget for this project was ridiculous, but Teela has to deal with how the spaces alotted to individual builders, who need to be housed while building the thing, amounted to claustrophobic slots smaller than beds. When she discovers a weird redundant exhaust port on the blueprints she deletes it, but a communications breakdown, and most of those workers being angry slaves, leads to it being built anyway. Ordered to submit to a medical screening days after arriving, Memah complains that if she'd been a Sangi Fever Sal she would have infected hundreds by now and anyway she'd been examined before getting on the shuttle. Later, Dr. Uli puts in a query for information about a patient's high midichlorian count and forgets about it until months later, when it's processed and he's arrested for illegal medical research.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_b2700e28	comment	Half the humor in If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device comes from highlighting the Imperium's problems. Of particular note is Short 7, where the Emperor and Rogal discuss the Imperial legal system that often takes generations to rule on a case.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: House Bolton. While Roose Bolton is more intelligent than most of them, their reliance on pure brutality to take the North backfires horribly. For instance, due to their tendency to have very sociopathic soldiers, they have very little support among commoners and their high-value hostages tend to lose value after being tortured by their men. Combatants who have become aware of their reputation are now also reluctant to surrender to them, making their wars more difficult than they need to be. Indeed, this forces Roose to enter into a risky alliance with Littlefinger and engage Ramsay to Sansa, a known fugitive persecuted by his Lannister patrons, to get whatever little legitimacy as he can claim. Roose is eventually assassinated by his own son Ramsay, who felt slighted by Roose when daddy goes off and sires a proper born-legitimate son. He turns out to be even more barbaric than his father. In the end, Ramsay's barbarity becomes his undoing; while savoring the brutality of slaughtering Jon Snow's assembled troops, he gets blindsided by the Knights of the Vale (foreshadowed earlier elsewhere by Jamie and Bronn's commentary about picket lines) and House Bolton is effectively extinct after, in an example of karmic justice, Sansa feeds Ramsay to his own starved hounds.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Invader Zim has this Played for Laughs with the Irkens and the humans. Both societies are cruel, totalitarian, and run by incompetent egotists who react to any objections with brainwashing or death, despite having absolutely no idea what they're doing themselves.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 has His Divine Majesty's Imperium of Mankind, probably the most exaggerated in fiction. It's deliberately the most oppressive crapsack government imaginable, but all the different factions that run it (Administratum, Ecclesiarchy, Mechanicus, Imperial Guard, Imperial Navy, Astartes, Inquisition, and Arbites) distrust each other at best, regularly hoard information and resources, will often refuse to help another faction unless it can benefit them, and on occasion will outright go to war with each other; more than one Imperial endeavor has been dismantled solely because of infighting. And that's before considering all the sub-factions (and sub-sub-factions) and all the local departments that run individual planets/systems. Turns out that this is better than the alternative, as any time someone gains control of multiple departments at once they soon turn the Imperium's brutally up even further (Horus in the Horus Heresy and Goge Vandire in the Age of Apostasy). It doesn't help that the only one who could feasibly remove the "Inefficient" part is the Emperor of Mankind, and he's a barely alive husk trapped in failing life support.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer has the Skaven, a seemingly insignificant race of Chaotic Evil ratmen — insignificant only in their inability to cooperate when they're the most powerful and overwhelming force on the planet. The core of all Skaven is fear — they fear their enemies, they fear each other, they even worship their unloving and monstrous god by constantly fearing that he will materialize and start eating titanic handfuls of screaming rats because he was bored. Which he has done on occasion. As a result, their society is one unending Fascist state with every citizen enslaving at least one other Skaven and other Skaven enslaving them, all the way to the top, where the twelve big rats squabble and argue on a giant magnet about Skaven policies and how they can write the rules to serve their ends. Despite the sheer difference in both population and technology between the Skaven and every other race on the planet, Chaos included, the constant infighting, backstabbing, and enslaving means that the Skaven are incapable of dominating a single surface outpost without some (easily killed) chieftain rat to herd them like cattle, hence the reason why they are so obscure that the Empire has deemed them a heretical myth. This is also why even most of those in the Empire who do know about the Skaven do nothing to correct the misconception: If the world knew about the Skaven and tried doing something about them, they might form an Enemy Mine and actually be a serious threat. As things stand, if you leave them to their own devices, nine out of ten Skaven plots will be thwarted by other Skaven before they get off the ground.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd: Mega-City One has a ludicrous number of laws and the Judges act as Judge, Jury, and Executioner by definition. Is it any wonder that the crime rate is through the roof and the vast majority of its citizenry live in poverty and why Judge Death keeps coming back?
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_c43df4d8	comment	In the Doctor Who story "The Happiness Patrol", the oppressive society of Terra Alpha (where everyone is forced to be happy) is clearly falling apart even before the Doctor arrives to take the oppressive society down, but he acts as the necessary impetus to finally push it over the edge into chaos and open rebellion. One particularly beautiful example, however; a militia is set up to "disappear" a group of protesters deliberately acting sad in protest over the laws, only to find when they get there that the Doctor has persuaded them to act happy, meaning that they are now obeying the law and can't be arrested or killed. And to add insult to injury, the first wave is so confused, glum, and indecisive about what to do that when a second wave turns up to help, they end up ignoring the protesters and arresting the first wave for breaking the same laws they'd been intending to arrest the protesters over.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_c4771251	comment	The Final Empire in Mistborn: The Original Trilogy has elements of this; the Lord Ruler is concerned with the survival of humanity, but is largely detached from directly ruling it, leaving control of his government primarily to the Obligators and nobility. These groups are more interested in backstabbing each other than they are in running a productive empire. Of course, the whole system turns out to be good for two things — perpetuating itself and terrorizing the lower classes (having an immortal Physical God at its head helps) so it still takes a ridiculous amount of work to overthrow. Justified since the Lord Ruler's only two real concerns were hoarding atium for the purpose of weakening Ruin, and preventing total human extinction long enough for him to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence and fix everything he messed up the last time. Beyond that, he really didn't care what happened unless somebody either broke into his palace or called him out personally.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7. The Terran Federation seems remarkably efficient at the job of repression, yet has no shortage of lackluster or corrupt functionaries and shoddy equipment. The implication is that as long as those in power stay there, they don't care if things run efficiently or not. The main reason why Blake wasn't more successful than he was could be attributed partially to the fact that most of his comrades were criminals more than dedicated revolutionaries. And some of them didn't have their heart fully in Blake's cause, realizing that the Federation's corruption and inefficiency is actually beneficial for people who choose to be criminals. Avon's tenure as de facto leader of the Seven was more in keeping with the mentality of acting purely in self interest by exploiting an inefficient system.note It got worse after the war with the Andromedans and even more so after Servalan was deposed. The Federation seemed to forget about either Blake or Avon and their crew. Then there is the fact that Servalan, who was at the time a higher priority wanted fugitive than the Seven, was able to hide among the Federation under an alias, without bothering to change her appearance and voice.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_c72021c5	comment	Deus Ex: The Illuminati present a facade of efficiency, but show extreme difficulty both in keeping citizens in basic sanitary conditions, and unable to handle a technologically-inferior terrorist group. Graft is common, biomilitary funding has laughably poor quarantining procedure, and it's noteworthy when a field agent refuses to kill so he can interrogate survivors. This problem proves systemic when, faced with rogue agents, the Illuminati field obsolete technology and outclassed operatives. When pressed to finally dispatch a top-of-the-line soldier finally to engage, he proves so Powerful, but Incompetent that he can only attempt to counter direct confrontations, but fails miserably at even slowing down a stealthy opponent.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_cc315a2a	comment	In Charlie Chan at the Olympics, much play is made mocking the bewilderment of the "ruthlessly efficient" German police detective facing an international murder-and-espionage plot ("Such things do not happen in Berlin!"). The film was made in 1936.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_db96ded4	comment	The Earth Kingdom stays completely incompetent in The Legend of Korra, where the secret airbender conscript training goes so far as to discourage teamwork and protecting your allies, apparently because Earth Kingdom culture reveres blundering idiocy or something. Again, taken to its logical conclusion when the entire Kingdom falls apart in spectacular fashion once the Earth Queen is assassinated and the walls separating the dirt-poor Lower Ring from the decadent and obscenely wealthy Upper and Middle Rings are brought down. And like in the previous series, the next regime was a fascist dictatorship that was NOT run by morons.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_dbf4c971	comment	The Wave (1981): Double-subverted. The students who become members of "The Wave" decide to increase their organization as a collective, but the school's sports team continues to suck overall. The double subversion becomes worse when the movement devolves into an "us vs. them" mentality with the rest of the school's students.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_dcc17bad	comment	86 EIGHTY-SIX: Even before the Giadian Empire invaded, the Republic of San Magnolia was a corrupt, racist oligarchy pretending to be a liberal democracy, and the war caused them to double down on their worst and most self-destructive traits. After their military proved inadequate for the task of defeating the Legion, they didn't start taking it seriously and band together as a nation to deal with an existential threat, but turned the war into an excuse for genocide-by-proxy while letting their privileged elite hide from reality within a bubble of propaganda.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_dd3fe595	comment	The government of "looters" in Atlas Shrugged started out with relatively minor regulations to the economy and ended up with Directive 10-289, which basically overrides the economic freedoms of everybody in the nation. Resource shortages, societal collapse, starvation, and trains not running on time ensue. The fact that John Galt is withdrawing as many productive people from society as he can also helped in the deterioration.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_e144ba19	comment	Dragon Age II: Knight-Commander Meredith is the de facto authority figure of the medieval city-kingdom of Kirkwall, due to the Viscount Dumar being an Authority in Name Only and the casually corrupt and incompetent nobility being unconcerned with anything besides their money. Kirkwall is also a Soiled City on a Hill and a Wretched Hive of poverty, crime, and corruption — partly because Meredith is unconcerned with anything not related to hunting down and imprisoning apostate mages. After Viscount Dumar is publicly executed by the invading Arishok at the end of Act 2, Meredith fills the power vacuum and turns Kirkwall into an authoritarian dictatorship. This just caused Kirkwall to turn into an even bigger Wretched Hive, and her hard-nosed policy against mages just causes more and more of them to turn to Blood Magic and Demonic Possession out of fear and desperation to escape her iron grip. Her increased paranoia and madness also just cause more mage-related incidents, and her desire to compensate by having the Templars seize more and more control over the city just causes it to become even more dysfunctional than ever, eventually destroying the city in an all-out civil war.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_e235270c	comment	Stellaris: Slaves have a bonus to mineral and food production but are poor at producing energy (used as currency) or research. Which means that Authoritarian and especially Xenophobic empires tend towards financial trouble, especially when it comes to maintaining the armies needed to suppress slave revolts.
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Stellaris (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fascist, but Inefficient / int_e235270c
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_e6267766	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_e6267766	comment	The Expanded Universe and Legends both reveal that the faults in both the Empire and the First Order were deliberate designs of Emperor Palpatine, who felt entitled to be the galaxy's only ruler. Everyone and everything requires the Emperor's firm guidance to function whatsoever. Either he would achieve immortality and rule the galaxy forever, or everything could just burn.
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Star Wars Legends (Franchise)	hasFeature	Fascist, but Inefficient / int_e6267766
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_e7e37776	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly: The Alliance tries to be totalitarian, but doesn't have the ability to enforce its authority throughout its borders. It's essentially a dystopian version of 19th-century America, with wealthy and civilized communities close to the government run by corrupt and wealthy criminals, while communities in the far frontier are lawless and run by thugs. The design of Alliance cruisers is meant to communicate the government's vast power and inefficiency. They are massive ships that resemble several skyscrapers on the same foundation, with engines thrusting them perpendicularly. Likewise, the resources that go into building one might lead to a ship that is overwhelmingly powerful, capable of launching and supporting dozens of smaller craft but is so large and slow it cannot possibly effectively patrol the vast territory of The 'Verse without huge gaps. In the second episode, it is also shown that the Alliance is unwilling to enforce their own laws and to protect medicine shipments to towns on planets under their control, even when said medicine gets stolen right under their own noses.
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_e89f120b	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_e89f120b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam: The Principality of Zeon really take this trope to a whole new level. They just can't resist the allure of shiny, expensive superweapons that always seem to backfire spectacularly. Sure, Mobile Suits are cool and all, but invest in some basic strategy. And don't get us started on the Zabi family â€“ they are basically a soap opera set in space, with constant infighting that would make even the most conniving reality TV stars blush. If you ever wanted a masterclass on how not to run a totalitarian regime, Zeon's got you covered.
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Mobile Suit Gundam	hasFeature	Fascist, but Inefficient / int_e89f120b
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_edbc9738	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_edbc9738	comment	Gary "the Smiler" Callahan from Transmetropolitan is a Misanthrope Supreme who hates people so much he wants to be the President of United States solely to turn USA into a fascist dictatorship. In his own words he wants to make everyone "shut up and do things properly". However, in the series finale, Spider takes great pleasure in pointing out that, once he got the seat, all his focus was on stopping people from taking it away from him. Despite being in power for months, he didn't even get to begin building his new order before Spider took him down.
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_edbc9738	featureApplicability	1.0
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_edbc9738	featureConfidence	1.0
Transmetropolitan (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Fascist, but Inefficient / int_edbc9738
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_ee384546	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_ee384546	comment	Cyberpunk 2077: Arasaka is one of the richest and most powerful corporations in the world. It is also the defacto government of both Japan as well as Night City. Conversations with Goro, though, indicate that Japan is actually no better off than Night City in terms of poverty and violence (and Night City is a Wretched Hive). Indeed, Night City is in large part such a hellish city because of Arasaka's prominence. Arasaka sucks its locations dry and makes them much worse.
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_ee384546	featureApplicability	1.0
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_ee384546	featureConfidence	1.0
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Fascist, but Inefficient / int_f7d93e4a	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_f7d93e4a	comment	The Templars of Assassin's Creed tend to function as such. Due to their belief in keeping the populace weak as part of their interpretation of Order, whenever they tend to control territories they tend to run it to the ground as seen in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. The Renaissance is considered a "Dark Age" of sorts for Templars as members were out solely for personal gain rather than forwarding their goals, but the modern-day or Altair-era Templars don't seem much better. Sure, they're not openly stabbing each other in the back in the name of personal power, but despite apparently having been in a position of control over just about everything except the minds of the populace itself hence the need for the Apple, the Assassins still exist and still manage to repeatedly yank the rug out from under the Templars.
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Assassin's Creed (Franchise)	hasFeature	Fascist, but Inefficient / int_f7d93e4a
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_fb9c177d	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Fascist, but Inefficient / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers The Transformers (IDW): Zigzagged in the backstory of the original IDW Transformers comics. At their peak, the Decepticons had an actual star-spanning empire with massive fleets, engaging in titanic battles with the Autobots across the galaxy. By the time the Transformers get involved on Earth, both sides are fielding, at best, a mere dozen or so combatants per world to take over planets relying on infiltration tactics. The Decepticons still have Fascist tendencies, but the Cybertronian race has been so whittled down by millions of years of war and wasted resources that they have no choice but to be more efficient. Also in the backstory, Autobot leader Zeta Prime took increasingly draconian and then outright monstrous actions in his attempts to stop the Decepticons. This wound up turning Orion Pax (aka the future Optimus Prime) against him, along with many others. At first Orion was a firm supporter, but the more fascistic Zeta became the more people began to turn against the Autobots, and once Zeta unveiled his Vampiric Dampners (weapons designed to leech the very energy out of a Cybertronian to use against them), Orion and like-minded Autobots rebelled. Transformers: Shattered Glass: Unlike many examples, the Autobot Imperium actually seems to function reasonably well despite a) being extremely fascistic, b) subscribing to such an extreme vision of Might Makes Right that hospitals are decried as "coddling", and c) their leader Optimus Prime being rightfully described as insane. Optimus also develops two superweapons over the course of the storyline: the heavily-armed Ark and the sentient super robot Omega Doom. In both cases, he would've won if not for things he couldn't have reasonably predicted. In the Ark's case, he added so many weapons that the Ark's launch pad was strained (which he'd accepted). He couldn't have expected that a heroic Cliffjumper (from the Marvel Comics Transformers series) would arrive and share the schematics to glass gas with the Decepticons, allowing them to make the launchpad so brittle it collapsed under the weight of the Ark. In Omega Doom's case, Omega was defeated by Nexus Prime, one of the Thirteen Primes and a literal demigod. The reason why the Imperium is doing pretty well is that Optimus is extremely pragmatic. For example, despite their derision for hospitals, there are still hospitals because Optimus recognizes that even the best warriors can get banged up, and because "treatment" can also overlap with "punishment". He will certainly pull a You Have Failed Me, but it's possible to talk him out of it (the way Grimlock did). And to Cliffjumper's confusion and horror, Optimus averts Never Recycle Your Schemes. When he decides to launch the Ark a second time, he reinforces the launch pad with stone, which is immune to glass gas. He's even a kind of Benevolent Boss to his most loyal followers, even promising Ironhide his own star system to rule once the Autobot conquest of the galaxy began in earnest.
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Mobile Suit Gundam / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Beast Wars: Uprising (Comic Book) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
V for Vendetta (Comic Book) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Avatar: The Last Alicorn / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Fascist, but Inefficient
Cultstuck / Fan Fic / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past / Fan Fic / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Arc Royale (Fanfic) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Avatar: The Last Alicorn (Fanfic) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Ciaphas Cain Warmaster Of Chaos (Fanfic) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Conversations with a Cryptid (Fanfic) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters (Fanfic) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Icarus (Fanfic) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
In the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium, Nobody Beats G.I. Joe! (Fanfic) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Knight of Salem (Fanfic) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Extradition (Fanfic) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Summoned Hero Is A Historical Materialist?? (Fanfic) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Brazil / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Burnt by the Sun / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Conspiracy / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Conspiracy (2001) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Dredd / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Kingsajz / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Solo / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Starship Troopers / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
THX 1138 / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Tetris (2023) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Bridge on the River Kwai / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Running Man / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Wave (1981) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
12 Years a Slave / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Assassin's Creed (Franchise) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
A Clockwork Orange / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
After the Revolution / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Alien Chronicles / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Caliphate / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Death Star / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Draconis Memoria / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Dungeon Crawler Carl / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Executive Orders / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Geist Series / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Halo: Contact Harvest / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Ibyabek / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
It Can't Happen Here / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Nineteen Eighty-Four / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
On the Edge of Eureka / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Paraiso Street / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Rex Nihilo / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Abyss / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Anglo/American â€“ Nazi War / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Aurelian Cycle / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Book of Lord Shang / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Fallen World / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Hunger Games / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Lost Fleet / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Who Needs Men? / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Xeelee Sequence / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
ChiangKaiShek	seeAlso	Fascist, but Inefficient
CityOfUnity	seeAlso	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Promised Neverland (Manga) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Chapo Trap House (Podcast) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
A Song Of Peace (Roleplay) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
City of Unity (Roleplay) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Mefhor Canon Bloc (Roleplay) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Andor / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Bad Girls (1999) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Lexx / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Severance (2022) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
GURPS Reign of Steel (Tabletop Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Civilization: Call to Power (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Dishonored (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Enderal (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Fable III (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Far Cry 6 (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Horizon Forbidden West (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Ixion (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Nothing to Hide (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Primordia (2012) (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Star Wars: Squadrons (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Tales of Arise (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Terminator: Resistance (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The New Order: Last Days of Europe (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Outer Worlds (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Thousand-Week Reich (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Tyranny (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Wolfenstein: The New Order (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Maglam Lord / Videogame / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Door Monster (Web Video) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Masako X - Dragon Ball What-If (Web Video) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Living with Hipstergirl and Gamergirl (Webcomic) / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Der Fuehrer's Face / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
The Owl House / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Atlas Shrugged / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient

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