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Foreign Ruling Class

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45 feature instances
37 referencing feature instances

Foreign Ruling Class	type	FeatureClass
Foreign Ruling Class	label	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class	page	ForeignRulingClass
Foreign Ruling Class	comment	A Foreign Ruling Class is a ruling class whose culture, language and/or religion are different from those of the populations they rule. Simply put, it is the other end of Ethnic Menial Labor. Different from a military occupation since this situation lasts in peacetime too. This situation can rise as a result of the conquest of a population by another; a protagonist might be moved to overthrow this oppression. Another cause might be the acculturation of the local ruling class by another culture, perceived as more prestigious. This can be a characteristic of the society in which the story takes place, and can explain conflicts between the rulers and the ruled. Over time, this class can go native, or their local subjects can assimilate into their masters' culture. It is very similar to, and can be considered a subtrope of Led by the Outsider, but shares some differences in how the leader behaves. Compare Evil Colonialist, Tribe of Priests, Master Race, Blue Blood, and Noble Tongue. Contrast Servant Race, Slave Race, and Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards.
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Foreign Ruling Class	processingComment	Dropped link to Parodied: Not an Item - FEATURE
Foreign Ruling Class	processingComment	Dropped link to ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Not an Item - FEATURE
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Foreign Ruling Class	processingComment	Dropped link to TribeOfPriests: Not an Item - FEATURE
Foreign Ruling Class	processingComment	Dropped link to VestigialEmpire: Not an Item - FEATURE
Foreign Ruling Class	processingComment	Dropped link to Wutai: Not an Item - FEATURE
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Foreign Ruling Class	isPartOf	DBTropes
Foreign Ruling Class / int_1c334568	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_1c334568	comment	The Walking Dead: Rick's group is seen as this when they start taking over leadership positions in Alexandria. Some welcome them being in charge as they are far more competent in the roles due to their experiences before arriving. Others resent them as outsiders showing up, taking control, and telling them what to do. This comes to a head when Rick becomes the leader of Alexandria and a conspiracy to oust them is formed. It doesn't get far before being discovered. After hearing their concerns, Rick then forms a larger council to rule Alexandria with more of the earlier residents on it, including a few of the conspirators.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_210767ac	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_210767ac	comment	Crusader Kings Crusader Kings II Simulated by making a distinction between a province's culture and religion, and that of the character holding the title (who will spawn courtiers, minor nobles, of his own culture). The province will tend to shift to match that of its ruler over time, or the ruler can change cultures to that of their capital province, but in the meantime, there's a small increase in revolt risk. Additionally, some cultures, such as English and Russian, are programmed to be created by having a province of one culture be controlled by a ruler of a different culture. Hilariously enough, players managed to combine a random event where a crazy ruler names his horse to his council with this mechanic, spawning actual horses as courtiers which can then be married off to humans to produce a ruling class of, yes, horses. In Crusader Kings III, the tradition Ruling Caste allows more easily rulers to suppress populations of a different culture.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_38c57aa2	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_38c57aa2	comment	Eberron: Valenar's rulers are Tairnadal elves from Aerenal, with a hired administrative class of House Lyrandar half-elves and the mostly human lower classes mostly just left to their own devices while the elves are off fighting. The Lyrandar half-elves have noticed that the Tairnadal seem largely uninterested in the actual kingdom and are wondering about the prospect of making it a nation for half-elves once the Tairnadal move on. The ruling class of Riedra isn't even from the Prime Material Plane; the entire nation is firmly under the control of nightmare creatures from the Plane of Dreams. Of course, since quori can't manifest physically in Eberron, even most Riedrans don't know this.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_41030a7c	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_41030a7c	comment	Executioners from Shaolin - The Manchurians destroy the Shaolin Monastery, and a fugitive monk plans his revenge against the treasonous priest responsible.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_48114d20	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_48114d20	comment	Split Heirs: The Gorgarians, a foreign Barbarian Tribe, conquered Hydrangea, with their king Gudge killing Hydrangea's king before forcibly marrying and impregnating his daughter to secure his rule. Ever since, he and his people rule, though Hydrangean nobles are allowed to advise him (but Gudge kills anyone who gives advice he'd rather not hear).
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_4e3daed	comment	Master of the Flying Guillotine - The title character is a servant of the Qings, hunting for heroic rebels who hope to restore the now-defunct Ming Dynasty (who were ethnically Chinese, and are presented in a much more positive light).
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_58f43551	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_58f43551	comment	In the historical short story Limes Northern Italy of The Dark Ages, much like Anglo-Saxon England, is ruled by a class of lordlings of Germanic origin - the Lombards. The Roman patricians like the protagonists are getting less and less relevant in the new order, with most of them losing lands or seeking refuge in the Eastern Empire.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_63935537	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_63935537	comment	Ivanhoe features Norman lords oppressing Saxon peasants.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_6a989b15	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_6a989b15	comment	The Tripods: Earth is conquered by alien invaders who order all humans to be implanted with Hypno Trinket "caps" that force them to remain loyal. The series focuses on La Résistance, the last few un-capped people trying to free the world from a vastly more powerful enemy.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_6e364f77	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_6e364f77	comment	Le Capitan: As in Real Life, Concino Concini and Leonora Galigai are Italian nobles who ingratiated themselves with Queen Regent Marie de' Medici (the Italian consort of the late King of France Henry IV) and gained much power at the French royal court.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_72262aee	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_72262aee	comment	The Fire Nation outposts/colonies on the Earth Kingdom continent in Avatar: The Last Airbender are mostly this trope, with Fire Nation citizens forming the ruling class and Earth Kingdom citizens mostly working as laborers. Partially averted with the older colonies, as there have been numerous intermarriages between Fire and Earth residents (most notably, the Fire Nation mayor of Yu Dao has an Earth Kingdom wife, and their daughter is an earthbender who is loyal to the Fire Nation).
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Avatar: The Last Airbender	hasFeature	Foreign Ruling Class / int_72262aee
Foreign Ruling Class / int_7dc116eb	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_7dc116eb	comment	Kris Longknife: Planets in the Greenfeld Confederacy/Empire (One Nation Under Copyright with aspirations to feudal monarchy) tend to have a mostly white Germanic-descended ruling class and a browner general populace. It's mentioned in Audacious that Kris's browner Wardhavenites (she has mixed European and Native American ancestry and her primary Love Interest is Latino) can blend in on Greenfeld worlds better than the Greenfeld military forces they're working with.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_7de8951a	comment	Traveller: Humanity's first two interstellar Imperiums were fairly straightforward examples, ruled by Vilani and Solomani respectively. The Third Imperium's nobility however, come from many different human and non-human cultures assimilated by the Imperium.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_7fc78282	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_7fc78282	comment	In The Lord of the Rings, Gondor and Arnor are ruled by an aristocracy of Dúnedain, who had to leave Númenor after it was sunk during the Second Age.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_7fcbd3e	comment	Played with in the Mystara D&D setting, where the land of Traladara was annexed by the Thyatian Empire, then bequeathed to Grand Duke Stephen by the Emperor in exchange for his family's homeland estates. Currently, its ruling class is mostly of Thyatian ancestry, but Stephen encourages rapid integration of the two cultures in his renamed and autonomous Kingdom of Karameikos, the better to forge an independent and unified identity for his realm.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_83d5493c	comment	The Beast Player: The Yojeh's family is descended from a golden-eyed woman named Jeh who gathered survivors of an indigenous kingdom when she crossed the Afon Noah after the war against the Toga mi Lyo caused the fall of Ofahlon.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_90f18253	comment	Extremely common in Battletech, where planets often shift hands multiple times during a single period of wartime. And this is before we even get into the subject of the Clans, who conquered a good fifth of the Inner Sphere and replaced the native Feudal Overlords with their own administration. The main emphasis on this trope belonged to Draconis Combine. In contrast to the relatively secular and multicultural facade maintained by the Successor States despite their cultural mainstream (Anglo-American based Federated Suns, Germanic Lyran Commonwealth, and Chinese-Russian Capellan Confederation), Draconis Combine's demographics tend to have Japanese-dominated nobility being outnumbered by non-Japanese who made up the large majority of commoners with the former pursuing Japanization policies with a few compromises towards religious tolerance (such as Azami's Islam and Rasalhague's Christianity).
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_91ecd68a	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_91ecd68a	comment	A Study in Emerald is a crossover between Sherlock Holmes and the Cthulhu Mythos, where Europe's Blue Blood (well, Green) are the Lovecraftian monsters that overthrew Earth in centuries past, as well as their hybrid descendants.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_98288223	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_98288223	comment	The Magicians (2016) deconstructs this. For some reason, Fillorian laws only allow Earth natives to become rulers of Fillory,note which, out-of-universe, is deliberately inspired by the Pevensies getting to rule Narnia in The Chronicles of Narnia so naturally the plucky twenty-something protagonists wind up being crowned kings and queens of the magical realm. However, they are thoroughly unfamiliar with the geography and customs of the country and tend to cause more harm than good with their flaws and less-than-stellar decision making.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_9888a110	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_9888a110	comment	The Man in the High Castle features two examples on one continent: America is split between the Japanese-controlled West Coast, the Nazi-occupied East Coast, and the Neutral Zone along the Rocky Mountains. In both occupied areas, Japanese and Germans call the shots. Naturally, most all of the administration is done by sympathetic or indoctrinated Americans, but the attitudes held by German and Japanese in their mutual colonies is just that: like the imperialist colonizers of the past two centuries, who regard the "natives" as lower class (often subhuman, in the Nazis' case).
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_9cba83fd	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_9cba83fd	comment	In Crusader Kings III, the tradition Ruling Caste allows more easily rulers to suppress populations of a different culture.
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Crusader Kings III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Foreign Ruling Class / int_9cba83fd
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: After the death of Reman Cyrodiil III, the last in the Reman dynasty, at the end of the 1st Era, his Akaviri advisor, Versidue-Shaie, took over the Empire. Following his death, his son Savirien-Chorak, would continue to rule. The Akaviri Potentates were members of the Tsaesci race, supposedly Snake People right down to having scales and serpentine lower bodies (though other accounts state they were men little different than those from Tamriel with some East Asian features). Ultimately Savirien-Chorak and his heirs would die under mysterious circumstances, leading to the 400+ year Interregnum before Tiber Septim's rise to power. There was an attempt during the Interregnum by the most firmly Akaviri-descended faction (the Rimmen, founded as a result of a pogrom against Akaviri by one of the many, many short-lived warlord emperors) to team up with the remnants of another Akaviri invasion (by the Kamal rather than the Tsaesci) to take over the throne, although historians going on to describe it as an attempt to rebuild the Empire suggests Going Native was strong by then. The Septim dynasty, ruling family of the Third Tamriellic Empire during the first four games in the main series and a Vestigial Empire by the fifth, actively took steps to Downplay this trope in order to better pacify the provinces under their control. While their empire expanded to include all of Tamriel, they had a habit of appointing Puppet Rulers in the provinces drawn from Imperial loyalists of the native races. One prominent example is Queen Barenziah of Morrowind. At the onset of Tiber Septim's invasion of Morrowind, his forces sacked the major, capital-potential Morrowind city of Ebonheartnote the one on the mainland, not the smaller, much younger Castle Ebonheart on Vvardenfell and killed all but the young Barenziah of her noble Dunmeri family (or possibly Barenziah was saved from some other disaster that befell Ebonheart. Sources disagree on whether Tiber ever actually invaded Morrowind or if things didn't progress beyond skirmishes and armies massing before Vivec brokered the Armistice that brought Morrowind into the Empire but extended Dunmeri autonomy). Convinced by his Dunmeri General Symmachus to spare her as a useful pawn, she would be later appointed as the Imperial-supporting Queen of Morrowind in order to make the Dunmer more supportive of the Empire. (Barenziah is considered a very successful Queen who would outlive Tiber Septim by centuries, but the ultimate result of Imperial rule in Morrowind is very mixed.) Another prominent example are the Nords of Skyrim. Dating back to the Pact of Chieftains (which was agreed to following a Succession Crisis where the last in Ysgramor's line died without an heir), the Jarls of Skyrim hold a "Moot" where a new High King of Skyrim is elected whenever the previous one dies. The High King is subservient to the Empire, with Skyrim having been one of the founding nations of the Septim Empire: Tiber Septim himself began his career as a Nord warlord named Talos, though he adopted Cyrodiilic, "Imperial", culture after taking the central province. (Of course, Ulfric Stormloak in the eponymous game seeks to change that...)
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: House Targaryen. They were originally a noble family of Valyria in Essos, who fled to Dragonstone four centuries ago, before the Doom of Valyria, and went on to conquer most of Westeros using three dragons, unifying six of the Seven Kingdoms under their rule (the last holdout, Dorne, joined through Altar Diplomacy decades later). They ruled for around three centuries and brought with them some Valyrian customs, such as the Valyrian language, dragons, Valyrian steel and a habit of marrying brother to sister to keep their bloodlines pure. Incest is outlawed throughout Westeros and generally considered a huge taboo, but the Targaryens were the exception. They were eventually ousted around thirteen years before the start of the series during Robert's Rebellion and the few survivors fled in exile to Essos, vowing to one day reclaim the throne. Notably, the Targaryens' closest supporters, who often intermarried with them, were House Velaryon, who also descends from Valyrian exiles. One of those survivors, Daenerys Targaryen, later conquers Slaver's Bay in Essos in order to eradicate slavery there; she decides to rule as queen to ensure the slave masters don't reclaim power and to keep the peace until the new order stabilizes itself. Although she is welcomed with open arms by the freed slaves and a few other citizens, others chafe at being ruled by a foreigner, especially one who generally holds many aspects of their Ghiscari culture (such as slavery and the fighting pits) in contempt. Daenerys struggles to keep both factions happy and ward off attacks by an insurgent group known as the Sons of the Harpy, while not compromising too much on her own values. Technically, most Westerosi are descended from people who came from Essos, a much larger continent with much more complicated politics. The original inhabitants of Westeros were the Children of the Forest, who were forced to settle north of the Wall after Essosi migrants arrived. The first arrivals were the First Men, who came from what is now the Dothraki Sea eight to twelve millennia ago. People of the North, the Wildlings, and some scattered tribes elsewhere are considered their direct descendants, with them still worshiping their gods. The second arrivals were the Andals, who came from the Axe peninsula in northern Essos two to six millennia ago, spreading the Faith of the Seven, which became the dominant religion in Westeros. The third arrivals were the Rhoynar, who fled the Valyrians a millennia ago and mixed with the Andals to form the current inhabitants of Dorne. The Targaryens (and the Velaryons, the other major Valyrian house who left Essos) were simply the latest Essosi to settle at Westeros. Much like the others, they nativized pretty quickly.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_a4a6b86a	comment	The premise behind Code Geass is an Alternate History where the British empire abandoned England in order to reestablish itself in North America after quelling the American uprising. They went on to take over most of the world, including Japan. The main story takes place in Japan, while the native citizens are still ruled over the Britannian Empire, with the local culture (allegedly) surpressed. Most members of the Royal Britannian Family appropriately look and act the part, though — fancy European inspired outfits, powdered wigs, etc.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_a574e145	comment	The Draka features a society where a small elite of Citizens of British Loyalist, Icelandic and Dixie stock, rules over an underclass of African native Serfs. Later this overclass turns into another species.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_b30ae4db	comment	Also applies to the TV adaptation Game of Thrones. In fact, in Season 7, Randyll Tarly says he'd rather be ruled by Cersei Lannister than Daenerys Targaryen, because at least Cersei was born and raised in Westeros, rather than a "foreign invader; one with no ties to this land" (although Daenerys was technically born on Dragonstone and forced to flee as an infant). Also in the series, Daenerys ends up becoming ruler of all the Dothraki, which they accept pretty readily because they believe in Asskicking Leads to Leadership; Daenerys killed all the other khals (Dothraki lords), leaving her few rivals and has a sizable army and three dragons at her back, so she is quite easily the strongest among them. She incorporates their warriors in her conquest of Westeros, which in Randyll's opinion is just another point against her.
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Game of Thrones	hasFeature	Foreign Ruling Class / int_b30ae4db
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The Tau Empire has annexed several planets inhabited by other species, including humans, who are usually treated well though still ruled by Tau Ethereals. While the Imperium of Man tend to be portrayed as Absolute Xenophobes some writers mention minor Xeno races who are just enslaved by the Imperium.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_c35714d6	comment	Blackadder: Parodied in Blackadder Goes Forth: Charged with ferreting out a suspected German mole (actually, it's George sending letters to his German uncle, because George is an idiot), Captain Blackadder grills Captain Darling for his own amusement and and brings up the fact that the British royal family is German-descended, like most of Europe's remaining monarchs at the time. Frequently referenced in Blackadder The Third with regard to The House of Hanover, most notably when the Prince Regent declares that of course they can re-write the entire dictionary in a single night because "We're British, aren't we?" and once he's out of earshot, Blackadder retorts "You're not, you're German."
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_c3a5fa9	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_c3a5fa9	comment	Robin of Sherwood makes much of the fact that the ruling classes are Normans, and the peasantry, including Robin of Locksley, are Saxon.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_d362c8ec	comment	Robin Hood (1991) features Robin as one of the last Saxon earls amid a Norman aristocracy, who all speak in French accents of varying degrees of intensity. At one point, Robin meets a Welsh bowyer who points out that, from his perspective, the Saxons are also foreign invaders - just ones who have been in Britain a bit longer.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_d5a71dd5	comment	Gehn from Riven is a dictator who forces the people of Riven to worship him as a God and learn his language, D'ni, or else they get fed to a whale-shark hybrid called a wahrk.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_d984b2c7	comment	Ten Tigers From Kwangtung - A band of martial artists (one of whom is a refugee from Shaolin) take revenge on a Manchurian general for his crimes. Years later, their disciples must fight off an attempt at a Cycle of Revenge from the brother of the general.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: By the time of the sequel, the capital of the former Fire Nation colonies (now called the United Republic) has a ruling council with representatives from each of the four nations (two from both the north and South Water tribes and one from the rather severely depleted Air Nomads). When Avatar Korra arrives in Republic City at the start of the series the council is now composed entirely of benders which has widened the gulf between them and non-benders (flashbacks show that Sokka was the Southern Tribe's representative in the past), making them kind of "foreign" to their non-bender constituents, something which the Equalists use as part of their rhetoric to bring down the current system. By season two, the council has been abolished and a resident non-bender was elected as president. During the same time period, the Water Tribes are ruled by the Northern Tribe's chief Unalaq, who isn't thrilled with what he perceives as the spiritual laxness of the Southern Tribe, his decision to effectively put the Southern Tribe under martial law after Korra unlocks the southern spirit portal increases the tensions between the two tribes. Which may have been Unalaq's intention, as his patron Vaatu feeds on negative emotions. At the end of season two, the tribes decide to formally separate and Korra's father Tonraq is named as Chief of the Southern Water Tribe, who used to be Crown Prince of the Northern Tribe before he was banished, but has married into the tribe and adapted so much that he doesn't really count for this.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_dbb68ab6	comment	The Chronicles of Narnia: In between The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, Narnia is conquered by pirate-descended Telmarines from a mysterious land in the West, who force the local Talking Animals and supernatural entities into hiding. Prince Caspian himself is a Telmarine Defector from Decadence who sides with the native Narnians, but his descendants remain the Narnian royal family for the rest of the world's lifespan.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_dea37b6c	comment	Ironclaw: The Kingdom of Calebria is ruled by the foxes of House Rinaldi, de jure, after they vassalized the island's other kingdoms of boars, horses, and wolves. Though at the time of the game the Rinaldi's actual power is waning and their vassals are getting ambitious. The otters of the Anatolian Empire replaced the cobra Pharaoh of the Delta with a Sultan of their own species, but heavy resistance from Deltan crown loyalists has convinced them to co-opt existing power structures in their later conquests.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_e081af79	comment	In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, the insectoid Nemesites are this to the dragons of planet Butane. Relations have become more strained recently, partly because the Nemesites' princess Voluptua has taken up residence on Butane to rule them directly, rather than through a proxy. Further complicated by the fact that, compared to most Nemesite royals, Voluptua is actually a pretty decent person.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_e235270c	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Foreign Ruling Class / int_e235270c	comment	Can happens in Stellaris as a result of the main species having Full Citizenship and xenos being classified as Residents or Slaves.
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Stellaris (Video Game)	hasFeature	Foreign Ruling Class / int_e235270c
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_e33c6082	comment	In Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, the Atlanteans fled their homeland to come on Earth and, as they weren't numerous enough, they created to themselves Slave Races, first trying with whales, who were too big. They then moved to primates, modifying them to move them to the Atlantean form to create human beings. However, the Atlanteans destroyed themselves in several internecine wars, and Neo Atlantis aims to make Atlantis great again.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_e5ea79ee	comment	In The Authority, Sliding Albion is part of an alternate reality in which an alien race called the Blue conquered Italy prior to its formal unification, intermarried with the various ruling families, and then used the resulting mix of political, military, and technological might to take over the rest of the world. Consequently, Albion has a twofold foreign ruling class, as they are taking orders from Italians who are in turn taking orders from the Blue.
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The Authority (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Foreign Ruling Class / int_e5ea79ee
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: Various sources on the origins of the Sith explain that a group of dark Jedi led by Ajunta Pall were banished from the Jedi Order in the 7th millennium BBY, and discovered and conquered a race of humanoids called the Sith on the remote planet Korriban, who viewed them as Physical Gods. They came to call themselves the Lords of the Sith and appear to have appropriated the title "Darth" from their subjects. Over time, they interbred with the Sith species to the point that by Star Wars: The Old Republic, approximately 97% of the Sith Empire's population other than foreign slaves has at least some Sith ancestry.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_ea91e607	comment	The 36th Chamber of Shaolin - A young man travels to the Shaolin Monastery to learn kung fu, so that he can teach the techniques to anti-Qing rebels.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_f5c74709	comment	The Silerian Trilogy: The Valdani were this for Sileria over centuries before the events of the books. Before that, it was the Kents, which they replaced. The Kents in turn displaced the Moorlanders, the first foreign rulers on the island of Sileria.
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_f893eff5	comment	The Adventures of Robin Hood involves Robin Hood and his band, standing up for the Saxon peasants versus their Norman rulers.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood	hasFeature	Foreign Ruling Class / int_f893eff5
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_fcacaa36	comment	The Man in the High Castle: Both puppet states established in the former US are dominated by their foreign overlords. In both cases, simply proving you're one of the ruling class is enough to get cops to leave you alone for most transgressions. The Americans in the Pacific Coast States are essentially second-class citizens, compared to the Japanese that seem more directly in control of the government. In fact, the Japanese are contemptuous towards even Japanese-Americans who settled there before the war, basically considering them traitors to the homeland. Due to this, we see at least one Japanese-American is part of the Resistance. The Germans are initially less hands on, with (depressingly) plenty of Americans willing to work with them, but by Season 3, the Greater German Reich is actively and spectacularly obliterating American history and replacing it with a "pure Aryan future".
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Foreign Ruling Class / int_fccc35cc	comment	Crusader Kings II Simulated by making a distinction between a province's culture and religion, and that of the character holding the title (who will spawn courtiers, minor nobles, of his own culture). The province will tend to shift to match that of its ruler over time, or the ruler can change cultures to that of their capital province, but in the meantime, there's a small increase in revolt risk. Additionally, some cultures, such as English and Russian, are programmed to be created by having a province of one culture be controlled by a ruler of a different culture. Hilariously enough, players managed to combine a random event where a crazy ruler names his horse to his council with this mechanic, spawning actual horses as courtiers which can then be married off to humans to produce a ruling class of, yes, horses.
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Le Capitan / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Master of the Flying Guillotine / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
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Kris Longknife / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Mother of Learning / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
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To Shape a Dragon's Breath / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
Salamander / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
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