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20 Minutes into the Future, or perhaps an Alternate History gone wrong, the United States is no longer the shining beacon of democracy that it once was. Perhaps civil war and/or an invasion has turned the country into The Dictatorship, corporate influence or a theocratic religious movement has undermined the ideals the nation once held, or democracy has been suspended in order to fight off external or internal threats, real and/or imagined. Whatever the reason, the nation is a democracy only in name, or sometimes not even that if the regime is painfully honest. Expect to see FEMA, DHS agents, cops that are always clad in riot gear, or even the military patrolling the streets, harassing innocent citizens for arbitrary crimes or simply for "being there". Civil rights have been suspended for the "greater good", and political dissidents are shipped off to concentration camps or made to "quietly disappear", never to be seen again. A La Résistance of sorts will usually be featured, made up of fed-up citizens, and sometimes former or dissenting military or police personnel that are following their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. They'll be dismissed as terrorists by the American government, and will usually be used to justify the oppression. How they are portrayed depends on the work. Some may have them as plucky heroes that still believe in idealistic American values and are willing to die to restore them, whereas if the scale goes further towards cynicism, they may be well-meaning rebels that do commit atrocities to fight against the system, or even Right Wing Militia Fanatics (who turned out to be Properly Paranoid after all) who are little better than the system they are fighting, and often become much worse. In a political work that is left-leaning, expect to see this trope overlap with The Boorish version of Eagleland and A Nazi by Any Other Name; an America where separation of church and state no longer exists and in which the government is in the pockets of crooked businessmen and warmongers - or a combination of both. Right-leaning works will favor a Commie Land America, with shades of either old-style Stalinism or '60s radicalism depending on the period the work came from. Or, since the end of the Cold War, radical Islamists imposing ''Sharia'' law, banning Christianity, and revoking all rights of women and kafirs.note Which isn't even accurate to actual Sharia, but there certainly have been Islamist groups that act like that. Libertarian and centrist works will often take elements of both of these portrayals. In any case you're sure to see a President Evil at the top of the whole thing. Can overlap with Fallen States of America, if the nation's slide into dictatorship was a cause or result of the fallen status. Divided States of America or Second American Civil War are also possible tropes, as the remaining US government may be trying to keep what is left of the nation together by any means necessary, if the oppression was not the cause of the civil war to begin with. (Of course, The revolution may not be civilized as well.) Invaded States of America can count too when the nation goes dictatorial to protect against the enemy, or if the invaded sections are under an oppressive foreign government. Also see Evil States of America, which is where the United States are the bad guys, oppressive or not. Basically Day of the Jackboot with a specifically American focus. Sub-Trope of Different States of America. No Real Life Examples past the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, please. Needless to say, many ideologues and conspiracy theorists on all ends of the political spectrum believe this trope to be Truth in Television, some tropers and readers could probably write an essay complete with citations about how there are at least some elements that are truthful, let's just leave it at that. Examples |
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In The Falcon Cannot Hear, where the assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 leads to a Second American Civil War by 1937, many of the factions involved in the fighting are some flavor of authoritarian. The American Soviet Republic is a Moscow-backed Stalinist state, the Civilian Government (aka the Whites) is a coalition of fascists and corporate interests backed by Nazi Germany, and Douglas MacArthur's military government (aka the Khakis) is the heir to the military coup that started the civil war in the first place. Only the Red Oak Pact, a coalition between the democratic socialist Provisional Government (aka the Blues) and the agrarian populist Continental Congress (aka the Greens), can be considered benign; while they get their share of What the Hell, Hero? moments as well, they're very much A Lighter Shade of Grey compared to the competition. Fortunately, the Red Oak Pact eventually prevails, with the Khakis collapsing after a hurricane hits Washington, D.C. and kills MacArthur, disgruntled leaders and factions in the Whites and Reds defecting to the Red Oak Pact, and the Canadians eventually sending troops to support them. | |
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The first half of Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War has the United States turn into an overly politically correct and repressive state where people are sued heavily for something as simple as smoking and other people being nearby. This leads to riots in the streets, militia uprisings, and roving gangs in big cities and ends with a very suspicious-looking terrorist attack that blows Washington D.C. off the map and kills off a majority of the Presidential line of succession. The second half is about the aftermath, following the (supposedly) heroic successor state of Victoria as it conquers rival successor states with its militia forces and sheer unpredictability. They then proceed to create their own version of this trope, though theirs is on the opposite side of the political spectrum, being a right-wing fundamentalist state. The narrative paints this as a happy ending. | |
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Watchmen: Richard Nixon is closing in on his fifth term, crime is rampant all over the country and Zeppelins from Another World are shown to be watching over all the streets. Also in Before Watchmen, it is revealed that because of the Red Scare, the Costume Vigilantes were made to show their identities and prove they were not involved with the Russians. This example is not quite as extreme as some others, though - a free press of sorts still exists, and at the end of the comic it looks like Nixon is going to lose the election to Robert Redford. | |
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The Long Walk: The United States has become a dictatorship under the control of the Major and his Secret Police after the country lost World War II (note that the U.S. is still independent, since it appears the Axis Powers only performed skirmish campaigns in the Americas). The regime keeps the population docile with the annual Long Walk, where 100 teenage boys are forced on a grueling marathon and killed one by one. | |
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Homefront: Overlaps with Invaded States of America. Any area controlled by Korea is under military rule, where US citizens are killed left and right. Even before the war, the US wasn't doing so hot in terms of freedom, as it slipped into Fallen States of America territory. Out in the boonies, the militia fighters are just as bad as the Koreans. | |
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In DMZ, the US is in the midst of second civil war, and while the lines of territory aren't very clear, (as the rebellious "Free States of America" is much closer to an insurgency than a nation state) the territory that is firmly controlled by the original US Government is kept under martial law, the government has essentially taken over the media and turned it all into propaganda, and it has few if any qualms about murdering or ruining the lives of innocent civilians, especially if it somehow gives them an edge against the Free States. | |
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Death Race 2000: The USA has morphed into the United Provinces of America, with the titular brutal blood sport being a form of Bread and Circuses for what's clearly a fascist state. They're implied to rule the (former?) Soviet Union and China, because Mr President has residences in both countries capitals, while looking to wage new wars (France is blamed in the film for attacks by domestic rebels). | |
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Dark Angel is set in a world where the US was devastated by a terrorist EMP attack in 2009. Little more than 10 years later, the US has degenerated into a 3rd world banana republic kept in check by periodic martial law. | |
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In Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline, due to William McKinley not being assassinated by Leon Czolgosz (the rewrite re-imagines the point of divergence being a more unified Socialist movement by the end of the 1890s) a socialist regime takes control of America by revolution in 1933, and becomes the Union of American Socialist Republics (UASR). However, in this case the socialists are (mostly) the good guys. Not surprisingly, it was the attempt of previous administrations to suppress radical socialism that caused this revolution. This trope varies in its severity throughout this timeline: The suppression of dissidents that occurred during our World War I is slightly worse, resulting in the arrest of socialist politicians, and even respected statesmen like Robert La Follette. When the socialist Worker's Party wins the 1932 election in a landslide, First Secretary Nicholas Longworth and General Douglas MacArthur successfully pressure outgoing President Herbert Hoover to suspend the Constitution, paving the way for the assassination of the Socialist President-Elect Norman Thomas and a mass arrest of the Worker's Party leading members. The so-called Freedom Corps and The Klan attempt to put down any opposition, notably massacring Huey Long and disloyal members of the Louisiana State Legislature when they openly protest against this bald-faced subversion of the Constitution. This is the final straw that sets the stage for the Civil War from which the UASR will be birthed. When it becomes clear that they are going to be on the losing end of the Civil War, the remnants of the US government and their supporters flee to Cuba and establish a new government, with Douglas MacArthur as President Evil. He proceeds to oppress the Cuban population. It's implied that this will be subverted in the later years of the Cuban-US nation. The early years of the UASR are a downplayed version of this trope. Many of those deemed "reactionaries" and "counter-revolutionaries" are dealt with by Kangaroo Court and firing squads, but it is nowhere near the scale of the Soviet Union, and many of the sentenced were genuinely responsible in suppressing American democracy. These actions are still seen in-universe as a black spot on the early history of the UASR, but none of the UASR leaders are portrayed as evil for them. |
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Sequel game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus takes place in the conquered America, and shows this side of the trope. Nazi rule is absolute, forcing people to assimilate Germanic culture and adhere to Nazi standards (such as reducing Afro-Americans to slavery). It's also implied that the Ku Klux Klan is not only actively out and in force, but may be legitimized or at least supported by the Nazis. | |
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The Timeline-191 series by the same author features a US that, having lost two wars to a Confederate/Britain/France alliance, has allied closely with Imperial Germany. The nation is increasingly regimented and militarized, everything is strictly rationed, and conscription is universal. A series of Mormon uprisings causes the government to simply ban the Mormon church, and the administration of occupied Canada, Texas, and Kentucky is extremely brutal, with suspected criminals executed without trial, hostages taken in retaliation for guerilla activity, and (oddly given that the main political divide in the setting is the Democrats and the Socialist Party) virtually no safety or labor rights laws. The Confederacy isn't as strife-ridden, at least for most of the series, but much more racist, and becomes genocidally paranoid when engaged in its last war with the oppressive Union. | |
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The Justice League episode "A Better World" takes place in an Alternate Universe where the Justice League has become the tyrannical Justice Lords after the death of The Flash, and the subsequent murder of Lex Luthor. The Justice Lords appear to have an iron grip on everything, even going so far as to lobotomize their enemies and keeping them in a Hellhole Prison. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Decompression", the Time Traveler tells Senator Wyndom Brody that history has been altered and the Age of Enlightenment that he created as President has been replaced by a new timeline in which the US is a police state where people are constantly monitored. In this new timeline, acts of terrorism and riots were widespread throughout the country and a weak President was able to capitalize on the situation by becoming a tyrant. She does not name the President but Brody is certain that it is Governor Stanton, his opponent for his party's nomination. The Time Traveler convinces Brody that he must save himself and correct the course of history by jumping out of the plane, which will crash on re-entry. She assures him that she will transport him to safety. However, when he does so, the Time Traveler reveals that her true mission was to change history and prevent him from becoming President as his selfishness, egotism and paranoia combined to turn him into the tyrannical President of whom she spoke. She accomplished her mission by appealing to Brody's considerable sense of self-importance and desire to save his own skin. The Time Traveler then allows him to fall to his death. The plane lands safely without him. In "Abaddon", the former United States has been ruled by the North American Corporation since 2102. Its population, known as shareholders, live their lives in service to the Company. |
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Escape from New York has the whole "the entire of Manhattan Island is now one big concentration camp" thing, but other background details suggest the US government is too close to imploding completely to be doing much in the way of effective oppression. | |
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The US in Shattered Union became this way under the Presidency of David Jefferson Adams, who put the West Coast under martial law and sailed to a second term through a blatantly rigged election (because there's no way he could've been re-elected under any other circumstances). The nuclear terrorist attack on Washington, D.C. during his inauguration, and the ensuing decapitation of the federal government and the line of succession triggers the Second American Civil War. Whether the player creates one of these or returns the nation to her glory days depends on how he or she conducts the war (sparing cities and avoiding the use of WMDs tends to avoid this trope). | |
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In Black Bullet, the light novels mentioned many countries that treat cursed children much worse than Tokyo. The United States happens to be one of them, as cursed children are hunted down and captured like wild animals, forced into slavery (usually either sold into sex slavery or to civil security companies), and used as experiments to unlock their superhuman abilities and implanting Varanium parts in their bodies. | |
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Civilization: America is a mainstay Civ and can be played with any level of Government Opression. In fact, the starting government is almost always a chiefdom/despotism, meaning for much of the early game play, America is this. Notably in Civ V, America's AI was highly expansive and sought big empires, which almost demands that they pick the Communist inspired late game government. | |
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The Handmaid's Tale, like the novel before it. It keeps the same setting as the book (Boston and Cambridge, MA), but seeing those liberal bastions transformed under an oppressive theocracy gives the series extra shock value. In the flashbacks of the time leading up to the "official" founding of Gilead, things were not much better. Riot police respond to a march of people protesting the law stripping women of their property rights by firing on them with heavy machine guns. | |
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Liberality for All is set in a United States that has become a left-wing dictatorship under the UN thanks to Al Gore winning in 2000. | |
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C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America. In the Confederacy (which now includes even the Northern states and most of the Americas after their conquests) the entire black population is enslaved, gender equality is non-existent, deviation of sexual orientation is not tolerated, Hispanics and Asians are subjected to apartheid, and there is not much political freedom even for white people. | |
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In Wolfenstein: The New Order, the Allies lost World War II because the Nazis came up with super-science weapons that allowed them to devastate Britain and America, which surrendered after Washington was nuked. Overlaps with Fallen States of America. Sequel game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus takes place in the conquered America, and shows this side of the trope. Nazi rule is absolute, forcing people to assimilate Germanic culture and adhere to Nazi standards (such as reducing Afro-Americans to slavery). It's also implied that the Ku Klux Klan is not only actively out and in force, but may be legitimized or at least supported by the Nazis. |
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Superman: Red Son involves virtually the whole world becoming communist thanks to Superman solving various economic problems. The US in an exception: its economy is on the verge of collapse and there is a mention of tanks in the streets of New York to suppress food riots. There's also a mention of a President Friedman. | |
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Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg: If Douglas MacArthur becomes president in the events that lead to the Second American Civil War, then he can either become Cincinnatus and step down after the war has ended, or more likely he'll decide to keep his "emergency powers" and become President for Life, maintaining his military junta indefinitely. Even the former outcome has a horrible precedent for American human rights and democracy. If the Second American Civil War results in a American Union State victory and then has William Pelley assassinate Huey Long in the resulting power struggle, it leads to the new American nation becoming a "democracy" where only white Christian men get the vote, leftists are worked to death in concentration camps, and race crimes against black Americans become just another part of daily life. The new nation becomes One Nation Under Copyright as he reforms the economic system to be dominated by monopolies loyal to him, the KKK become an influential part of the new government, and the Minutemen become a State Sec who crush all his opposition. Pelley also prohibits vaccines under the new regime (as he believes they are a leftist plot), which results in the biggest polio outbreak in American history and millions of Americans are left crippled. The Second American Civil War and its belligerents are all generally treated as Grey-and-Gray Morality, but Pelley's vision for a new America is rightly treated as a horrible conclusion. Likewise, if the AUS win the war and the Corporatists have sufficient power within the alliance, they can also get rid of Long without instituting his populist reforms and seize power for themselves indefinitely. In fact even if Long wins the ensuing power struggle, it results in a dictatorship, though he at least enforces benevolent social and economic policies while using the Minutemen to crush all his enemies. Also if the Combined Syndicalists of America win and then Browder or Foster's Totalist movement seize power, the nation becomes a purge-happy USSR Expy. However there is then a chance that Smedley Butler will march his army on Washington to force the new regime to stand down, ironically in the same way MacArthur may have done to kick off the civil war in the first place. |
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For All Time sees the United States descend into isolationism and racial instability throughout the 20th century. By the mid-1970s, things have deteriorated into a quagmire of feuding racial militias, with domestic terrorism, a collapsing economy, a genetically-engineered flu pandemic, and, after a nuclear meltdown at a Mississippi power plant, a drastically exacerbated energy crisis. In response, President Jim Jones establishes an authoritarian rule over America after his election in 1976, locking up his opponents in labor camps, ruthlessly crushing militants of all stripes, and creating a paramilitary force called the "National Volunteer Army" to help enforce his rule. After Jones attempts to start a nuclear war to fulfill a delusional prophecy and is deposed in a silent coup, Alexander Haig takes over as President and rules America with an iron fist, although he manages to bring some stability to the country. | |
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This happened in an alternate universe on Stargate SG-1, after the Stargate program went public. The world was not ready, and a scramble for control over the Stargates led to civil unrest and geopolitical power-mongering. | |
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In Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler, the U.S. has become this. The United States is ruled by Jarrett, an Evangelical Christian who uses all non-Christians as a scapegoat and puts them in concentration camps. The country is in shambles and Alaska has seceded from the union and is at war with Canada. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: A smaller example featured The Sanctuary Districts, sections of cities walled off that housed the poor and unemployed. While their intent was to aid them, they later degraded into internment camps. | |
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Fallout: Before the Great War, the United States government had become increasingly paranoid and militaristic in the face of the resource shortages and the Sino-American War. When the Canadian goverment refused an ultimatum from their American counterparts to allow unrestricted military access through their territory, the US Miltary instead swiftly annexed all of Canada under the pretext of national security, and subjected the population to a brutal occupation. Back on the home soil, the civilian population weren't treated much better, as several gas riots broke out across the country, with the government cracking down with several draconian measures like a ban on protests and severely limiting free speech, effectively turning the US into a Police State. Meanwhile, the Enclave (the éminence grise of the federal government) nationalized several large companies, exacerbated geopolitical relations, and freely ignored the Constitution of the United States, put into motion a series of unconstitutional, inhumane, and war criminal projects; (for example; the Robobrain manufacturing process — where factories were set up to extract the brains from living prisoners to be used for expendable robot processors, the various Vault experiments, the Forced Evolutionary Virus experiments, the various bio weapons programs, et cetera). After the war, they were willing to cause global genocide to achieve the country's goals of wiping out communism and becoming the sole heirs of the planet. | |
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes: The United States has become this in 1991, with the Governors now holding very powerful authority. Since the movie was released around the time of the Vietnam protests, it's probably taking a real life situation and turning it up to eleven. | |
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Ad Astra Per Aspera: Congress successfully impeaches Andrew Johnson, resulting in a much more chaotic Reconstruction. Consequently, the United States gradually becomes more authoritarian, until the Constitution is formally abolished in 1965 and replaced with an absolute monarchy. | |
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In We Are Legion (We Are Bob), when Bob is re-awakened 117 years after being hit by a car, he learns that the US was taken over by the religious right and transformed into the Free American Independent Theocratic Hegemony (FAITH for short). Incorrect thought is remedied by brainwashing straight out of A Clockwork Orange, numerous theocratic factions are too busy fighting with one another to actually run the country, the Internet is gone (the information there is hard to control), and history has undergone many revisions by the government. Bob himself, as an uploaded "replicant", is seen as either a useful tool or a spawn of the Devil, depending on the faction. But very few treat him as a person. | |
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The Running Man. The U.S. has become intensely repressive, including (among other things) slaughtering people who are protesting not having enough food. | |
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The 80s action movie-inspired free game The Hard Way features an America much like the one from Escape from New York, with MICOM (Military-Industrial COMplex) and the Yuppies controlling everything, Manhattan being turned into a state penitentiary, political dissent being considered treason under the "Freedom Act," HOMSEC goons blackbagging people at night and sending them to FEMA camps, Chinese-Americans being interned because of the current war against China, survivalists, death cults and racial supremacists thriving outside the big cities; and everyone with slave wages, potato chips and TV sets — basically a corporate-fascist America nightmare. All this in the backdrop of a three-way conflict between the US, the Chinese and the Soviet Union for the last remaining natural resources, with the rest of the world not being much better than America. | |
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Squadron Supreme: In the backstory, America was one of these, with civilians being dragged off to camps to be brainwashed into obeying the Overmind, a telepathic villain who'd taken control of President Kyle Richmond, and through him his fellow members of the Squadron Supreme. The team's efforts to undo the damage done ultimately result in an even more oppressive government taking over when the Squadron gets trapped in another universe. | |
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In Animorphs, the third Megamorphs book suddenly opens here with no initial explanation; it quickly comes out that Visser Four managed to find the Time Matrix and rewrite history. As a result the United States is part of a British empire trying to wipe out "primitives" in South America, slavery is legal (though based on disability rather than race), Jake is a Sociopathic Hero and Rachel is in a reeducation camp to "learn her place." Fortunately this circumstance is inconvenient for both of the series' Sufficiently Advanced Aliens, who restore the Animorphs' memories and send them through time to fix things. | |
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The National Socialist States of America is basically the Nazi-American puppet from The Man in the High Castle becoming its own independent nation. After a coup in 1986, a futurist faction came to power that proceeded to obliterate American culture and Christianity, and pursue an apocalyptic and hypernationalist foreign policy. | |
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A somewhat lighter example in New Deal Coalition Retained. Under the administration of President Ted Bundy, the US passes heavily draconian anti-drug laws, and the National Guard is repeatedly used in large-scale roundups of drug users. Simultaneously, hate groups (many of which have started peddling drugs) are banned and similarly rounded up. Critics repeatedly bring up how these actions violate civil liberties and free speech. | |
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The Sliders: One episode features an alternate-history America in which J Edgar Hoover had become president, leading within a few decades to a totalitarian US in which the government was woefully underfunded, organized criminals ran the economy, and the police wore kilts. Another version of the US has this almost happen to it, with a popular Presidential candidate spouting slogans like "America for Americans" and advocating for the removal of all those who don't fit the American "genetic standard" (ironically, Native Americans would probably be kicked out too.) Basically, anyone non-white might as well move to Mexico. He has already managed to do this to California (being the state's governor). His company is also supplying so-called robotic servants to do menial tasks. The dark secret of his campaign is that those servants are, in fact, US citizens who don't fit the "standard" and are forced to undergo Unwilling Roboticisation. |
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In What If? #44, the USA became an increasingly fascistic police state (complete with rounding up of blacks and Jews) because of the influence of a jingoistic impostor Captain America… until the real one awakens in 1983.. | |
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Caliphate has the United States become a Christian theocratic empire in response to an nuclear assault in their territory and Western Europe being converted into an Islamic state. The President outright rules like an Emperor in-name-only, the Constitution is repealed and they have annexed most of the American continent such as Canada and Mexico - the few independent countries not under their control such as Brazil and the Philippines are just client states instead. | |
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In the 2060s storyline of Star Trek: Federation the Optimum Movement takes over much of the world, including the United States. There the Constitution has been suspended and only the fifteen states with Optimum majorities are allowed to send representatives to Congress. | |
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Back to the Future Part II: An alternate timeline is created where Richard Nixon is still President in the 1980s following the repeal of the 22nd amendment, the Vietnam War rages on and crime and corruption are at endemic levels as Casinos spread nation wide. | |
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In Allen Steele's Coyote, the United States has degenerated into the fascist and theocratic "United Republic of America" where intellectual dissidents are rounded up with their families and carted off to forced re-education camps. After the Republic collapses, it is effectively taken over by a united South and Central America to form the Western Hemisphere Union, a socialist/communist society. While it's quite a bit better than the Republic, they are very imperialist and seek to control the former U.R.A. colony of Coyote. | |
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Prior to 2056, in the Shadowrun game-setting, elections in the UCAS had been conducted via a "remote-vote" system. That year, it was revealed that this voting system had been rigged to ensure a reelection; the incumbent administration was ousted, followed by an immediate Special Presidential Election in 2057 to restore legitimate democracy and avert this trope. Of course, with the mega-corporations ruling the world anyway... | |
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Strongly implied in Illuminatus!, and would naturally come up in any work of fiction where The Illuminati (or a similar Ancient Conspiracy) are the ones REALLY running the country. The country isn't actually depicted as any more oppressive than the real life United States during the Vietnam war, but it is depicted as incompetent and monomaniac, and easily manipulated by The Illuminati towards the total loss of personal privacy and permanent state of martial law. Supposedly. But even that is just another case of misdirection, since the conspiracy's true goal is the near-extinction of all humanity. | |
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Capto Iugulum: Scottist America was definitely this, with the military controlling all aspects of society, the practice of slavery expanding into industry and lasting into the 20th century, even harsher Indian Wars, and much of the west ruled by generals via "Military Districts." | |
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Deus Ex: Freedoms have been curbed to fight off "excessive terrorism." After the Northwest war before the game starts, parts of the nation are still under martial law. As the world continues to go to shit, the nation goes under full-fledged martial law in order to control rising civil unrest. | |
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Person of Interest The fourth season's plot is basically the story of how the Samaritan artificial intelligence system begins constructing one before moving onto the world. Building a large network of politicians to do its bidding, creating the means to brainwash the next generation of American children, and manipulating the intel given to counter-terrorist operatives are just the tip of the iceberg of the steps it takes to achieve its goal. | |
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What Madness is This? has the Federalist Party rig America's political system in their favor and lead the nation into an ill-advised war with France. After the Southern states secede in protest, the rump United States reorganizes itself into the Republican Union of America. After getting roped into the Napoleonic Wars, the Republican Union is invaded by British troops from Canada, who then proceed to Rape, Pillage, and Burn before being driven out. As a result, the Union develops a grudge against both their southern neighbors (for failing to come to their aid) and France (for dragging them into the conflict, then not giving them enough of a reward when Britain was defeated). The Republican Union spends the 19th century stewing with anger against the Southern republics and their French allies while oppressing anyone who isn't a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. By 1900, the Republican Union has turned into a full-fledged militaristic dictatorship. In the 1950s, the Republican Union finally reconquers the south and renames itself the New United States of America. However, NUSA only lasts about a decade and a half before fallling apart due to a plot by a MegaCorp. | |
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In The Hunger Games, after an unspecified collapse of civilization (possibly involving some major geographic changes) the U.S. has become a tyrannical autocracy renamed "Panem" and is split into twelve districts. This name is derived from the Latin phrase "panem et circenses" or "Bread and Circuses," hence Peeta being the son of a baker and the eponymous "Games" serving as circuses to entertain the masses and keep them in check. | |
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The game SIGMATA: This Signal Kills Fascists is set in an alternate 80s era America that has been taken over by homegrown fascism, but is meant to draw parallels to America under Donald Trump, who was President when the game was released. The police and the military have been consolidated into one body called the "Freedom Fist" that enforces a nationalistic and oppressive rule across America. While there are still elections, and still things like the Bill of Rights, the Regime has strong control over all branches of government, and enforcement of these rights is significantly lopsided with a very strong bias against women and minorities racial, sexual and otherwise, who find that there are all kinds of ways to criminalize them or otherwise render the rights they're supposed to have moot. Immigrants are hauled into internment camps for daring to outstay their welcome. The media are controlled, and all forms of communication are used to try to catch would-be resisters; the only hope the five groups that make up the resistance have is The Signal, which gives those that have been attuned to it the power to fight back against the Freedom Fist and the Regime. | |
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In Christian Nation, the United States becomes an oppressive Christian theocracy through an alternate history where Sarah Palin becomes the first female President and is followed by her aide Steve Jordan succeeding her, suspending the Constitution in favor of The Blessings which every state is obliged to follow as the law of the land. | |
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Demolition Man: Set in a future where the US has gone totalitarian, banning virtually anything that could possibly be considered unhealthy or offensive. Heavily implied to have come about after a period of mass privatization and civil unrest. | |
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Firebird 2015 A.D.: The US government just woke up one day in August 1992 and decreed that gasoline would be for law enforcement and military use only, creating an agency to stomp down on any civilian use of gasoline. The film takes place 23 years after the edict was passed, with driving having become a symbol of rebellion. It is implied that the government did not stopped there, but the film does not focuses on that. | |
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Escape from L.A., has the U.S. going fascist when the Big One hits Los Angeles, and a religious nut uses this as a platform to get himself promoted to President for Life, even relocating the Capitol a little ways south to his hometown of Lynchburg, VA (a Take That! to Jerry Falwell, the founder of the "Moral Majority", whose Thomas Road Baptist Church is in the town). Anything he considers to be against his new "Moral America" laws (read: anything he doesn't like — tobacco, alcohol, red meat, guns, profanity, non-Christian religions, atheism, non-marital sex and more) is banned, with those who break the laws having to choose between getting deported to Los Angeles Island, which is every bit the hellhole that Manhattan Island Penitentiary was, or being executed in the electric chair. Snake lampshades it when he sarcastically calls the new states "the land of the free". At the same time, the country's military has degraded to the point where a ragtag force of Latin American countries has a legitimate chance of invading the US. | |
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The Handmaid's Tale: The fascist, theocratic Republic of Gilead is (one of?) the USA's successor states. | |
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Likewise, an alternate universe in Lois & Clark brought us President Charlton Heston. One person, one vote, one semi-automatic rifle! It's implied that the reason America has degraded into a wild west nightmare is that Alt-Clark married Lana Lang, who forbids him from fighting crime. | |
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An Examination of Extra-Universal Systems of Government has a couple of examples: The United States under the reign of Edward Butler indiscriminately bombed Islamic countries (including nuking Mecca and Medina), tried to persecute Islam in America, and placed the country under martial law in an attempt to prevent anyone from opposing or impeaching the Butler regime. Fortunately, Butler's regime didn't last long, and America fell into rebellion, utterly dissolving the United States, with nearly all the former states joining the North American Union, while Butler set up a Government in Exile in Guantanamo. The United States in the world of "The Eagle in Exile" is described as a "right-wing Soviet Union" after a revolution turned the country into an autocratic state dominated by the military and the "Tea Party Coalition." This caused Americans living overseas and in exile to form the American Overseas Republic. The US in the "Liberty Now Has A Country" timeline underwent a massive surge in the Red Scare, in which the government fell under the sway of Joe McCarthy (who eventually became President) and became fervently totalitarian in the 1960s and 1970s. This resulted in a massive revolt against a J. Edgar Hoover-ruled regime in 1977, and leading to the birth of the Federated States of America. Founded from the aftermath of a longer and more violent Civil War and the Second American Revolution, the American Union is a one-party state ruled by the racially inclusive Sovereignist Party, which deport people of non-Caucasian ancestry from its country. Under the old guard of the New Founders, the Sovereignist Party forcibly removed millions of "undesirable populations" to labor camps in Canada's Northern Territories, where thousands died from the journey and the rest were worked to death in the cold—the New Founders believed that the "cold could do the work of poison gas." By the modern day the Americans refuse to talk about the "Second Trail of Tears", as mentioning it is punishable with arrest or worse. The National Socialist States of America is basically the Nazi-American puppet from The Man in the High Castle becoming its own independent nation. After a coup in 1986, a futurist faction came to power that proceeded to obliterate American culture and Christianity, and pursue an apocalyptic and hypernationalist foreign policy. |
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The New Order: Last Days of Europe: One of the outcomes of the 1972 election is for Francis Parker Yockey, an open Nazi sympathizer, to take office. If he does so, he will immediately begin tearing down American democracy, bring segregation to extremes even hardcore segregationists think is too far, encourage racist hate crimes against ethnic minorities, refuse to prosecute The Klan when they commit said hate crimes, give funding and intel to the Reichnote Well, actually to the Burgundians, who he mistakes for Germans, shut down freedom of the press, and make himself President for Life. Every week there is a Waco-like event, and the country is effectively following an American brand of Nazism. All this is in his first hundred days. By the admission of the developers, he is the most tyrannical leader for the United States to elect. Another outcome of the 1972 election would be for Gus Hall to take power. At first, he doesn't seem so bad, as he advocates for racial equality and worker's rights in a nation lacking both, but as time goes on, he shows that he is willing to do anything to get his way. He quickly turns into a Stalin-esque tyrant who purges political opponents, expands state power (when not needed) under the guise of enforcing civil rights, and encourages political violence on the streets. Not only does he weaken the FBI and the CIA while in a cold war with the Nazis, but in the course of doing so, he launches an anti-gay "Lavender Scare" as a justification for his purge, aimed at FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover (in real life long suspected of being Armoured Closet Gay) above all else. |
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The US is well into this trope in GURPS Cyberworld, even before the government gets around to formally suspending the Constitution. The Provisional President makes regular speeches about the upcoming end to the Permanent Emergency and a return to democracy, but no one with a working brain believes those speeches. | |
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In Transmetropolitan the police are pretty corrupt and oppressive to begin with, carrying riot shields with SUBMIT printed on them and stomping of protestors' faces. When the Smiler takes over it gets worse, culminating in the City getting put under martial law. | |
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In No W, America quickly becomes this under President Rick Santorum, who starts turning it into a theocratic dictatorship. Political opponents and public figures who criticize him tend to either die in plane crashes, get arrested on trumped up charges, or outright disappear. Laws are passed that discriminate against the LGBT community as sacrilegious, and ban video games or television shows that have even the slightest adult content. And eventually, the Muslim population is rounded up in "protection centers", supposedly to protect them from bigotry, but it is implied they're a precursor for extermination camps. | |
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Charmed's 6th season has Chris who comes back in time to help prevent an accident that causes Wyatt to lose all sense of morality and take control via magic - it's not clear whether this is actually just America or the whole world. | |
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Halloween Unspectacular has several examples: The story "An Average Day" features an America that has become dominated by corporations. Lower and middle class employees/citizens are forced to take drugs that keep them obedient and compliant, and those who show resistance to the drugs' effects face a variety of cruel fates, from conscription to exile to liquidation. "The Dictator" features the eponymous nameless tyrant (who is implied to be the embodiment of all of mankind's crueler inclinations) having taken over the US. Under his rule, his "Freedom Brigades" round up and imprison or execute anyone deemed an enemy of the state. Which includes entire towns. The second Myth Arc sees the Nazi remnant group PURITY manage to seize control of the US (by means of President Fulton selling out to them). They proceed to have anyone with powers rounded up in concentration camps, while critics of the regime are either arrested or executed. |
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In Barb Wire (a thinly-veiled remake of Casablanca), the US has become a Third World country under martial law. The government forces do whatever they want, and their officers walk around like Gestapo (wearing Commissar Caps). The economy is so bad that people prefer to be paid in Canadian dollars, and Canada is seen as the place to go for anyone who doesn't want to live in this hellhole. Strangely, prostitution is legal, and prostitutes are required to undergo frequent medical exams and display their med-cards upon request. | |
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Judge Dredd: America has been split into three independent mega-cities, each of which is a fascist police state. Somewhat atypical in that the main characters are the Judges, i.e. the ones who are enforcing the police state, yet they mostly aren't portrayed negatively. Primarily because the Dreddverse is an extreme Crapsack World that has been on the brink of total destruction each time the Judges weren't there to hold the line. The Alternate Universe that the Dark Judges hailed from was at first depicted ambiguously, but more recent stories have set it in a clear analogue of the United States. Somehow the fascist police state created there was even WORSE than in Judge Dredd's world, with the judges ultimately deciding to just wipe out their whole population in the name of law. Since the publication of The Fall of Deadworld it's become clear that pre-Judge Death this universe was effectively the Mirror Universe for Dredd's. In the Dreddverse the Judges are harsh but intended to be fundamentally fair and are trying to preserve civilization in the midst of a post-apocalyptic world (Depending on the Writer). On Deadworld they are explicitly out for their own power, take drugs to suppress morality and corruption is not only endemic but expected. It's telling that the local Judge Child (who in the Dreddverse is Evil All Along) is a fundamentally good person and Death's prophecised last obstacle to his evil dream. |
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