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The Theocracy

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The Theocracy	comment	Simply put, a theocracy is any society that is ruled by God or by gods, which in practice usually means The Church is the government. Often the laws of a theocracy are based off religious law, or claims that God (or Gods) is the supreme ruler of their state with the temporal ruler almost always being the High Priest. This is especially prevalent in pre-modern settings. This trope exists on a wide spectrum, ranging from 'the Church is the government and their mandate is from God' to 'the country has an almost entirely ceremonial state religion'. Many countries around the world acknowledge religion in their constitutions and have politically-involved religious movements and organisations, but this doesn't necessarily equate to a theocracy or even an especially religious country. For example, in England the head of state (the monarch) is also the head of the Protestant Church of England, bringing an overtly religious aspect into the governmental system. The United Kingdom's House of Lords also dedicates 26 of its seats to Church of England bishops (known as the 'Lords Spiritual'), giving a specific religion a constitutional role in everyday governance. With that in mind, despite these theocratic elements it would still be a big stretch to call England or the UK a full-on theocracy, and in terms of population they are much less religious than neighbouring, officially secular Ireland and France. The term was first used by Flavius Josephus, a Romano-Jewish author, who used it positively to describe the Israelite system of government. In settings where God or gods definitely exist and have powers above and beyond any mortal government, it could be argued that every society would be a de facto theocracy whether consciously modelled on one or not, especially if worship of such deities was the main religion, but normally that is not what this trope means. Note that true theocracies, where secular government is virtually non-existent, are fairly rare. Most often the Church will simply have a lot of secular power and sometimes a parallel government: authority over religious/moral laws, its own bureaucracy, its own army, etc. Theocracies, in both fiction and Real Life, have a rather bad reputation (at least in the modern, post-Enlightenment era) — as such, the Theocracy is almost always portrayed negatively, and is often portrayed as The Empire and/or a brutal, authoritarian Dystopian Dictatorship that preaches The Evils of Free Will — a secular government is run by theoretically fallible mortals, but if the government is ostensibly appointed by and speaking for a god, then saying they made a mistake is effectively saying that god was wrong, making the dissenter a heretic. Thus a Corrupt Church is often the head of a Theocracy, but not always. See also God-Emperor, where the rulers go one step further to proclaim themselves living gods with a personal religion. Compare Church Militant, where the clergy is badass, but not necessarily the rulers of a country. Not to be confused with the Christian Rock band Theocracy.
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The Theocracy / int_13679a09	comment	Ward: A parallel Earth, Earth Cheit, is known to be a global theocracy, with the state religion being some variant/derivative of Christianity. Details on their government and belief system are scarce, but they are shaping up to be an antagonist after several of their citizens were killed in an accident on Earth Gimel, and it's later revealed that Teacher has more or less secretly taken over their ruling body.
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The Theocracy / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): While the Sangtee Emperor is not technically part of the Empire's clergy their most important advisor is and they cannot make any decisions which contradict the State Church. It is implied they've wanted to legalize women as actual citizens rather than enslaving them for some time but were unable to until the Empire was thrown into a civil war.
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The Theocracy / int_1aacbbc9	comment	The Chantry in Dragon Age. Being the state religion of Southern Thedas, it has been responsible in influencing the setting's traditions and customs specially in regards to magic. While there has been a separation on paper between the state and the sect, the Orlesian Empire (which serves as the Chantry's seat) waged a expansion campaign in order to spread the Chantry's dogma across the known world and in some cases, religious members have step up to administrate as seen with Kirkwall in Dragon Age II where the Templar Commander Meredith assumes the free city's control following the Viscount's death, with a Grand Cleric (arch-bishop equivalent) to rein her in.
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The Theocracy / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: The Theocracy of Rausten from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is exactly what its name says, ruled by the Divine Emperor Mansel, who is also its religious leader. The Begnion Empire from Path of Radiance/ Radiant Dawn is explicitly a theocracy, where all the members of government hold religious ranks and the Empress is also head of the church. Fire Emblem: Awakening features the Halidom ("Holy Kingdom" in the Japanese version) of Ylisse, devoted to the worship of the Divine Dragon Naga, as well as a more sinister version in its neighbor Plegia, which is led by the Grimleal, which worship the Fell Dragon Grima (though most Plegians are not themselves Grimleal). Fire Emblem: Three Houses The Church of Seiros. While ostensibly a neutral power meant to keep the three nations of FÃ³dlan in check, it wields considerable political power and has its own standing military that answers only to the archbishop. The archbishop Rhea is also Seiros herself, having faked her own death in order to continue watching over FÃ³dlan in over a thousand years since the church's founding, effectively making her a shadow ruler. Edelgard isn't very happy with this state of affairs for various reasons and decides to kickstart a war to rid FÃ³dlan of the Church's influence. The Holy Kingdom of Faerghus was founded due to mediation from the church to end the war that the first king Loog von Blaiddyd initiated to fight for its independence from the Adrestian Empire. That said, it is noted that the country's rulers are long-time supporters of the church and this automatically puts them at odds with the empire when Edelgard initiates her plan to destroy the church's grip on FÃ³dlan. When Dimitri dies on the Crimson Flower route, the country rallies around Rhea and the Church and install her as their new leader, becoming a truly proper version of this. This is reinforced in Three Hopes, as Dimitri notes that even though he personally agrees with many of Edelgard's reforms, if she's allowed to dismantle the Central Church it would declare the Blaiddyd line's Divine Right of Kings illegitimate and topple what stability the Kingdom had left after his father King Lambert's demise.
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The Theocracy / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: Masada, a brutal fundamentalist theocracy run by the leaders of the Faithful, which permits no other sects to exist and has women kept in virtual slavery. Played with on Grayson. Religion infuses Grayson society and law, but Grayson's church no longer holds official power, and the right of the individual to follow their own path is actually a core element of modern Grayson theology. Masada was actually founded by fundamentalist adherents of the Grayson religion who objected to Grayson's reforms. Masada took the old rules to new extremes such that their allies, the People's Republic of Haven, would rather not deal with them if they had any choice.
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The Theocracy / int_2616ce	comment	Kandor City in Krypton is ruled by the theocratic dictator, the Voice of Rao, with the Council carrying out his orders. Notably, saying there's life in the universe other than on Krypton is considered treason and worthy of a death sentence along with the rest of the family being stripped of privilege, and gods other than Rao are now considered lesser. Following the Season 1 finale, it has ceased to be a theocracy and turned into a military junta dictatorship instead.
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The Theocracy / int_2630fe31	comment	The Lands of Holy Order the Arkanar Kingdom in the ending in Hard to Be a God.
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The Theocracy / int_268681e9	comment	A particularly unpleasant one rules the city of Migdal Bavel in The One Hundred Nights of Hero. We mostly see them executing women for being able to read.
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The Theocracy / int_2a04866b	comment	In Guild Wars: Prophecies the Charr invasion of Kryta led to the complete collapse and disappearance of the previous monarchy. The White Mantle took their place in stopping the invasion and then ruling Kryta once peace was restored. They were eventually deposed when a legitimate heir was found to challenge the increasingly corrupt and exploitative actions of the Mantle.
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The Theocracy / int_2a139e05	comment	The Orville: The bio-ship in "If the Stars Should Appear" is being ruled by a theocratic dictatorship who have misinterpreted the word of their former Captain Doral as divine scripture over the years.
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The Theocracy / int_2acb12c5	comment	The Paranid Empire in the X-Universe are ruled by one Priest-Emperor Xaar, and each Paranid settlement or station by a priest-duke. Their (rather bizarre) religion permeates every aspect of Paranid life, making Holier Than Thou the species' hat.
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The Theocracy / int_2ae406c1	comment	The Lord's Believers in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, led by Sister Miriam Godwinson. The Alien Crossfire expansion also gives us the Cult of Planet, led by Prophet Cha Dawn.
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The Theocracy / int_2f1933a4	comment	The Outpost Fourteen years before the start of the series, a religious group known as the Prime Order overthrew the monarchy and took total control over the realm, with the Three (their leaders whom they believe are divine) ruling. Yavalla is the leader of the Blackbloods in Season 3, and also their high priestess. She then starts taking over people's minds to become ruler of them all.
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The Theocracy / int_33888a01	comment	The Legend of Drizzt: In most Drow cities, females rule and this includes the priestesses (males are barred from clergy positions), so there are strong theocratic elements (which includes outlawing worship of any other gods but Lolth).
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The Theocracy / int_38c57aa2	comment	Eberron: Thrane is ruled by the Church of the Silver Flame. Nominally it is still a monarchy, but after a series of events during the Last War the monarchy's actual power ended up limited to more or less just ruling their own household. Actual power in Thrane is split between the Keeper of the Flame (the mortal avatar of the Flame's divine power, currently a pre-teen girl) and the Council of Cardinals (a group of theoretically equal church officials). The Keeper is generally left to manage the more spiritual aspects of the nation, while the cardinals have the more practical and pragmatic duties.
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The Theocracy / int_3b37873c	comment	Bulikov and its Continental neighbouring cities in The Divine Cities all were theocracies during their Golden Age. Their individual gods were highly involved in the lives of their followers and provided leadership, guidance and infrastructure, with Bulikov being neutral ground ruled by all six Divinities equally. The Continent's been a bit of a mess ever since all the Divities died as it turned out that not only did they provide societal laws, but the Continent's entire infrastructure relied on their existence.
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The Theocracy / int_3b792986	comment	A More Personal Union has the Most Christian Republic of Naples, formed after that city-state breaks free of Spanish rule.
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The Theocracy / int_3bdd4c82	comment	Megami no Hanabira: The establishment of one of these worldwide is the ultimate goal of The Flock.
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The Theocracy / int_402a548f	comment	Tehran: Iran is one, and it overshadows much of social life there, with Iranian dissidents against religious restrictions imposed upon them which the Islamic Revolutionary Guards enforce. Many of the Iranian expats make it clear it's what they hate about Iran, while loving the country itself (and the people).
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The Theocracy / int_45799562	comment	In Talislanta, both Aaman and Rajinistan are particularly unpleasant theocracies.
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The Theocracy / int_468bebb0	comment	The country of Omnia on the Discworld, seen mostly in Small Gods, is ruled by the Church of Om, with the Cenobiarch or Supreme Iam as head of state. While at the time of Small Gods it was a Church Militant empire that covered a large chunk of the continent, by The Compleat Discworld Atlas it mostly consists of the Citadel of Kom (i.e. Discworld Vatican) and some surrounding farmland.
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The Theocracy / int_474c18c1	comment	In BioShock Infinite, Columbia is run by a theocracy with its state religion's prophet Zachary Comstock as the head of state. In an alternate timeline that Booker DeWitt travels through, Elizabeth takes over as the head of state, tortured into playing the role of the prophesied "Lamb" and eventually leading Columbia into an aerial assault of New York City circa 1984.
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The Theocracy / int_49a88442	comment	The Holy See of Ishgard in Final Fantasy XIV is a theocratic city-state ruled by the Archbishop of the Ishgardian Orthodox Church, Thordan VII.
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The Theocracy / int_4b1bcf96	comment	Starship Troopers 3: Marauder: The United Citizen's Federation was already a far future People's Republic of Tyranny with incredibly overt militaristic and fascistic tendencies in the first two movies. Then after the alien Hive Mind brainwashes (and later kills) the current Sky Marshal by claiming itself to be a god, the leadership of the Federation, impressed with the blind obedience that religion can instill, establishes its own mandatory state religion with propaganda campaigns declaring God a citizen of the Federation!
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The Theocracy / int_4e25d7d9	comment	In a twist of Irony, The Emperor of Mankind himself never wanted for this to happen, having come to view Religion as a whole to be antithetical to the further development of Mankind due to how many conflicts and wars in the past for Humanity were entirely attributed to Religion, and as such when he took control and installed The Imperium of Man he sought to destroy all other religions in order to spare the people from the hardships and fears of dogmatism in order to work together towards one unified goal.
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The Theocracy / int_51c1e095	comment	In TORG there is the Cyberpapacy, which evolved when a 'classic' pseudo-medieval inquisition-pope got infected by a cyberpunk artifact.
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The Theocracy / int_55c20cb5	comment	Overlord (2012) has the Slane Theocracy and the Roble Holy Kingdom, both nations run by priesthoods, though the latter also appoints a monarch.
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The Theocracy / int_56fa0ea4	comment	A government choice in Civilization in several games. Namely, the Second as Fundamentalism, Fourth, Fifth as Piety, and Sixth.
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The Theocracy / int_5908ee91	comment	The Dragon Cult in Skyrim's distant past also qualified as one since they worshiped Alduin and his dragons and ruled over the ancient Nords in their name.
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The Theocracy / int_5a0daa35	comment	Iron Kingdoms has the Protectorate of Menoth, a small region that is the heart of the Menothite church. It's notoriously harsh in its approach to theocracy, given that Menoth is Lawful Evil and a giant asshole; you can be burned alive for saying the wrong thing. To a lesser extent, there's the Circle Orboros, a semi-druidic cult which has de facto control over a number of wilderness tribes and also some hulking wolf monsters.
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The Theocracy / int_5a160237	comment	Civilization: Beyond Earth has the Kavithan Protectorate from the Indian subcontinent. Its leader Kavitha Thakur is both political and spiritual. The Lord's Believers in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, led by Sister Miriam Godwinson. The Alien Crossfire expansion also gives us the Cult of Planet, led by Prophet Cha Dawn.
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The Theocracy / int_5beb06bd	comment	The antagonists of Iconoclasts are the One Concern, who worship a being called the Starworm (usually referred to simply as "Him") as a creator god, and harshy enforces "Penance" for stepping outside of whatever assigned role they give you. It turns out that all their faith and worship was meaningless, as the Starworm isn't a god at all, but merely a weird-looking spaceship belonging to an alien bird-man trucker, who has no idea what humans are or why there are suddenly so many of them living on what is essentially just a gas station.
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The Theocracy / int_5e3f9611	comment	The Handmaid's Tale: The fundamentalist regime rules the Republic of Gilead according to its own Biblical view, which is very harsh.
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The Theocracy / int_5e59ce49	comment	In Elantris, the Fjordell Empire is a theocracy controlled by Shu-Dereth and its leader Wyrn Wulfden IV is both High Priest and Emperor, considered the only living human who has a direct connection to Jaddeth.
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The Theocracy / int_61e400a0	comment	Path of Exile: Oriath, the small island nation which you were exiled from, are ruled by the Templars. They're highly corrupt, exiling would-be criminals to a forsaken continent to die or be used as experiments, and practice slavery. They also have a strong aesthetic resemblance to the Nazis.
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The Theocracy / int_643cd5f7	comment	In Cube Zero, the omniscient dictatorship controlling the Cube is strongly implied to be a theocracy. "Crimes against country and God" is a notable transgression and anyone who survives the Cube is asked whether they believe in God — if they answer "No" they are incinerated. No one has ever answered "Yes" (possibly implying atheists are sent there as a punishment).
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The Theocracy / int_645d2bd1	comment	Warbreaker has a less antagonist version. Hallandren is ruled by the Court of Gods and their priests; though there's certainly corruption to go around and the gods themselves can be rather out of touch with the world, they're not really any better or worse than most governments. The God King himself is actually quite a decent guy, if a powerless figurehead, and his High Priest, though he initially appears to be the Big Bad is actually a Well-Intentioned Extremist opposed to the real villains.
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The Theocracy / int_64791462	comment	The Seven Kingdoms is slipping into this by the events of A Feast for Crows. To forgive the debt the kingdom owe to the Faith of the Seven, Cersei Lannister is manipulated into reviving the Faith Militant, the military wing of the Faith. The organization quickly set about to stamp out "deviancies" from the kingdom in the name of defending the faith, including prostitution, homosexuality, and adultery. And unlike ordinary septons, who are just as corrupt as anybody, they are very principles-based, and do not bow to the wishes of anyone, including the monarchy itself. The previous Faith Militant, which were disbanded during the early years of the Targaryen dynasty, started a seven-year war over a succession they did not bless, so one shouldn't be surprised by their stubbornness.
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The Theocracy / int_6744d821	comment	Downplayed in The Owl House. Emperor Belos justifies his claim to the throne by claiming it to be the will of the Titan, the dead monster whose country-sized corpse forms the show's setting. He also claims that many of his more controversial politics, such as the execution of Eda Clawthorne and his ruthless enforcement of the Coven system, are commanded by the Titan. However, religion doesn't appear to be a major factor in Boiling Isles politics beyond Belos. Belos' claim of wielding the Titan's magic is technically true, but only because he stole it, and he can't actually speak to the Titan, who in truth hates Belos and aids the heroes in overthrowing him.
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The Theocracy / int_68f5addd	comment	Hail Satan?: Satanists see themselves as fighting this being established in the US, with Christian symbols or prayers monopolizing public spaces, which violates the First Amendment, and protests they stage aim to combat this (along with lawsuits when necessary). It's hard to argue with the fact that the Christians they're facing want this or something like it given they often proclaim the US is a Christian nation (which a historian notes has never been the case), and want to enshrine Christianity in the government by various means.
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The Theocracy / int_694aa414	comment	Pandora: First Contact gives us Divine Ascension, led by Lady Lilith Vermillion.
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The Theocracy / int_6a8ce345	comment	In Avatar: The Last Airbender the Fire Nation was originally ruled by the Fire Sages, who performed administrative and religious duties, thus becoming an example of both theocracy and magocracy. Until one of the Fire Sages gained enough power to declare himself Fire Lord.
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The Theocracy / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Eberron: Thrane is ruled by the Church of the Silver Flame. Nominally it is still a monarchy, but after a series of events during the Last War the monarchy's actual power ended up limited to more or less just ruling their own household. Actual power in Thrane is split between the Keeper of the Flame (the mortal avatar of the Flame's divine power, currently a pre-teen girl) and the Council of Cardinals (a group of theoretically equal church officials). The Keeper is generally left to manage the more spiritual aspects of the nation, while the cardinals have the more practical and pragmatic duties. Forgotten Realms: Until the Time of Troubles, Mulhorand and Unther were ruled directly by avatars of the Mulhorandi and Untheric pantheons (by Word of God, the actual Egyptian and Babylonian gods), and the countries functioned as theocracies with the priesthood also forming the bureaucracy. Mulhorand continued to be one after the avatars were allowed to return to their home plane, but Unther collapsed after all its gods were killed, had already left (the avatars could leave before being allowed to, but due to the circumstances of why they were there it would cut them off from Toril and their worshippers there) or had ended up dropping out of the Untheric pantheon into the FaerÃ»nic pantheon. Firenewt society is dominated by the worship of the elemental lord Imix, and their tribes are ruled by his clerics and warlocks. Greyhawk: The Theocracy of the Pale. In the Living Greyhawk campaign, the real-world region assigned to it was Utah. The Drow are ruled by a theocracy of Lolth. Other gods are present, but considered subordinate to her.
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The Theocracy / int_6cc7497b	comment	Wallachia in Castlevania (2017) is portrayed as an de facto Christian theocracy where the Church acts as cultural head with the Arch-Bishop, Bishops and lesser priests wielding power over the citizens. There is no mention of an sovereign like a prince or a king to keep the Church under control (the final season reveals that most of the royal court died early on in Dracula's rampage), and the one secular official we see like the Mayor of Targoviste lives in terror of upsetting them since they could charge him for heresy. Following Dracula's genocidal purge, the Church has taken direct administrative with the Bishop of Gresit serving as both the religious head and acting governor with his secret police made up of his corrupt priests.
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The Theocracy / int_7104a8	comment	Rebuild 2: One possible ending is the Church of the Chosen Ones, where a Zombie Advocate preaches that zombies are in fact the next stage of human evolution and that their loved ones are waiting for the survivors to join them in undeath. Agreeing with their views in the early game gives a small happiness boost, but once you fully go over to them (by capturing the big graveyard) you're basically done playing as the residents take almost every day off to either bask in the wisdom or their leader, throw themselves over the fence to the zombies, or celebrate that someone else has joined the Chosen Ones. Oddly enough, defending against zombie attacks is still part of the game after you join them, so it's possible to get a Game Over while trying to get the ending.
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The Theocracy / int_72e68fc6	comment	Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice: The Kingdom of Khura'in is a hereditary theocratic monarchy, and the queen being a descendant of the Holy Mother (their patron deity) is the grand priestess, the highest religious authority of Khura'inism and the country's temporal ruler. To be a priestess, the royal women must have the ability to commune with the dead. Only a handful of state officials are secular leaders.
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The Theocracy / int_739d59fc	comment	Parable of the Sower: In Parable of the Talents, the U.S. is on its way to becoming a theocracy. The Glorious Leader, Jarrett, is a member of the Christian America sect which blames all non-Christian "heathens" (and sometimes Christians of other denominations) for America's problems. They have significant power over the country, with their own army and POW camps.
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The Theocracy / int_73afd310	comment	Pebble in the Sky, by Isaac Asimov: Earth is ruled by the Society of Ancients, a theological group who utilize Secret Police and Dystopian Edicts to enforce their rule and belief in the superiority of the Earth.
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The Theocracy / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Technically, Bajor has a secular government led by an elected First Minister. In practice, however, the Kai (essentially the Pope) has considerable influence over the people, reaching its peak when Kai Winn made herself interim First Minister following the previous one's death and fully intended to make it permanent. Fortunately for Bajor, La RÃ©sistance hero Shakaar Edon won over the people and got elected First Minister, torpedoing Winn's plans.
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The Theocracy / int_74c659e6	comment	In Rocket Age the secret Martian city state of Hasvarval has no royal caste, instead being controlled entirely by the priest caste.
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The Theocracy / int_76e7de99	comment	Forgotten Realms: Until the Time of Troubles, Mulhorand and Unther were ruled directly by avatars of the Mulhorandi and Untheric pantheons (by Word of God, the actual Egyptian and Babylonian gods), and the countries functioned as theocracies with the priesthood also forming the bureaucracy. Mulhorand continued to be one after the avatars were allowed to return to their home plane, but Unther collapsed after all its gods were killed, had already left (the avatars could leave before being allowed to, but due to the circumstances of why they were there it would cut them off from Toril and their worshippers there) or had ended up dropping out of the Untheric pantheon into the FaerÃ»nic pantheon. Firenewt society is dominated by the worship of the elemental lord Imix, and their tribes are ruled by his clerics and warlocks.
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The Theocracy / int_7de8951a	comment	In Traveller, theocracy is a possible government when generating worlds. Type D (13) in the original Universal World Profile hexadecimal system. In the officially produced books, some like Tonopah/Albadawi (Solomani Rim 0723), are relatively benevolent. Others, like Pavabid/District 268 (Spinward Marches 1238), are just as unpleasant as the reputation of theocracies has. It is worth noting that under the rolls in Traveller for system generation mean that theocracies will frequently have repressive law levels.
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The Theocracy / int_7f6d17a2	comment	We Are Legion (We Are Bob): America elected a hyper-religious president in 2036. In addition to his blatant religious agenda, he had no political skill whatsoever, breaking laws left and right to appoint his hyper-religious idiot friends to key positions, claiming God would sort it out. This, predictably, resulted in a horrific recession, and the next president elected was an atheist. That drove the religious right into a frenzy, and they launched a successful coup, replacing the United States with the Free American Independent Theocratic Hegemony. By the time Bob is awoken, FAITH has dozens if not hundreds of factions fighting each other over dogma, and do far more damage to each other than their enemies. Bob manages to keep them satisfied long enough to escape in the probe.
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The Theocracy / int_7f9dbbce	comment	In Far Cry 4, Kyrat is a dictatorship that made all religions illegal and replaced them with Pagan Min's Cult of Personality. If you sided with Sabal at the end of the game, he intends to restore the good old days back to Kyrat and establish a theocracy revolving around their spiritual beliefs — which includes embracing the worst aspects of this religion like forcing little girls as young as six into Arranged Marriage.
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The Theocracy / int_86312631	comment	The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Religious Feudalists are one of these, with their ruler being a High Priest.
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The Theocracy / int_87944929	comment	Batman: Holy Terror takes place in an alternate timeline where Oliver Cromwell survived a decade past his death to establish an theocratic empire over Britain and the United States called the Commonwealth. Puritanism is the state religion and other forms of Christianity like Catholicism are considered heretical.
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The Theocracy / int_8ace5eeb	comment	After the Revolution: The Heavenly Kingdom is a very clear-cut example, being a fundamentalist christo-fascist nation-state-to-be which is ruled according to strict biblical literalism under the command of a leader known only as "Pastor Mike" (Mike is The Ghost of the book and never makes a direct appearance). The Heavenly Kingdom was heavily inspired by the Real Life ISIS/Daesh. The United Christian States of America (made up of most of the Deep South) isn't sufficently characterised by the book but is implied to be more of an oligarchic republic ruled according to bible-inspired law; the fact that Pastor Mike is officially persona non grata in the UCS implies the UCS is insufficiently Christian to the Heavenly Kingdom (though the UCS still unofficially backs the Heavenly Kingdom). Utah has come under the control by the Mormon Church (to the degree that it's known as 'Mormonland' to much of the US), and the city of Albuquerque has a God-Emperor (though little is known of his actual religious decrees outside of his love of boiling people alive).
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The Theocracy / int_8ca6f796	comment	Chitra follows the adventures of a 21st century high school student who gets Isekai'd into a medieval-eqsue world where each kingdom is dedicated to the worship of a different deity. The rulers are a class of priest-royalty, whose titles are religious in nature but whose duties more closely resemble those of a feudal lord — e.g. collecting taxes, determining the punishment of criminals, allotting land to farmers, and directing military forces. The protagonist winds up with the body and memories of Chitra, a priest-princess whose family served as the apostles of the God of Beauty. Other major Kingdoms in competition for resources (and citizens/ devotees) with the God of Beauty's kingdom include the Kingdoms of the God of Lightning, the God of Plague, and the God of War.
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The Theocracy / int_8d8157e0	comment	Lexx: The League of 20,000 Planets is governed by the Divine Order, which serves as the universe's main religion in the far future. Its leader and subject of worship is His Divine Shadow. In reality, the Shadow is the last survivor of the Insect civilization, which has been at war with humanity and he engineered this theocracy to control them and ultimately destroy them.
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The Theocracy / int_8ec33a87	comment	In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, the Indoline Praetorium, housed on the Indol Titan, is the central church of worship in Alrest, and is governed by Praetor Amalthus. Notably, Amalthus' ability to 'cleanse' Core Crystalsnote which increases their resonance rate, thereby making them easier to bond the Blades they contain with Drivers gives the Praetorium disproportionate control over their supply and distribution to the other Titans' nations, and, thus, over the world's military matters.
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The Theocracy / int_8f8233e	comment	Blasphemous takes place in the ruins of a fallen theocracy known as Cvstodia, which worships the power of the Grievous Miracle, which is a Jackass Genie if there ever was one, answering people's prayers in the most twisted and horrifying manner possible. Since Cvstodia is a Martyrdom Culture that is obsessed with the idea of physical suffering as penance for sin, and the people there often pray to the Miracle for heaps of it, this actually works out rather well.
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The Theocracy / int_9045b1b7	comment	In the aftermath of World War Z, Russia has become an expansionist theocracy called the Holy Russian Empire, with the Russian Orthodox Church reigning supreme and a Tsar implied to be Vladimir Putin as head of state. As of the time of writing, it has reconquered most of the former Soviet Republics and is pushing its way into Ukraine.
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The Theocracy / int_920d318c	comment	Anima: Beyond Fantasy has Albidion, that is pretty much the game's setting equivalent of Real Life Vatican (see further) having apart the clerics of the Church of Abel little more than a small nobility.
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The Theocracy / int_94a26281	comment	In the backstory of Kult: Heretic Kingdoms, Taryn Arkor, despite being a descendant of the hero who killed God, established himself as the head of a theocracy before being rebelled against (and then backstabbed by his Chancellor). This made religion more enemies than ever, and the Inquisition, a militantly atheist faction which bans religion (and which the protagonist belongs to), has its origins in the resistance to the Theocrat.
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The Theocracy / int_96a4ad60	comment	The United States under The Christian Values Party in the sequel series to Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 has become this. Under the command of Douglas Coe, the Ten Commandments added to the constitution, several landmarks in D.C. have been demolished for being idolatrous or to make room for statues devoted to their idea of Jesus, the resisting congress has been destroyed (literally), everyone who opposes their rule has been declared a Satanist, and, worst of all, they have no qualms about using WMDs to crush resistance or outside forces. Several states have already broken away and a second civil war has begun.
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The Theocracy / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: In "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" Yonadan society is run by the Oracle, a computer whom they believe is a god, and their High Priestess.
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The Theocracy / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls Morrowind, prior to becoming a Voluntary Vassal to the Empire, was ruled by the Tribunal and the Tribunal Temple. They were officially ruled by the Great Houses, but the Tribunal Temple held significant power over the affairs of the Dunmer (Dark Elves). Even after the Empire forced a secular government onto them, the Tribunal Temple still holds significant power by the time of the eponymous game. By the end of the game, at least two of the Tribunal are dead — Sotha Sil by Almalexia's hand, and Almalexia by the Nerevarine's — and regardless of whether you killed him, Vivec disappears from his city in the interim between Morrowind and Oblivion. The Alessian Order was a rabidly anti-Elven religious sect which established a Theocracy in the 1st Era that wielded nearly as much power as the Emperor at its height. They saw no difference between political and religious matters, and taught that resisting the Order was equivalent to resisting the gods themselves. The Dragon Cult in Skyrim's distant past also qualified as one since they worshiped Alduin and his dragons and ruled over the ancient Nords in their name.
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The Theocracy / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Norvos is ruled by its Bearded Priests, who strictly control every part of its citizens' lives. Bell tolls tell them when they must pray, eat, work and even have sex (this last is said to be infrequently, as the Bearded Priests believe in it only for reproduction-not that everyone obeys). Qohor is likewise ruled by the priesthood of the Black Goat. Lorath used to be a theocracy as well, ruled by the priests of Boash the Blind God. But after they grew hopelessly corrupt, the people eventually overthrew them, and the religion died out. The Seven Kingdoms is slipping into this by the events of A Feast for Crows. To forgive the debt the kingdom owe to the Faith of the Seven, Cersei Lannister is manipulated into reviving the Faith Militant, the military wing of the Faith. The organization quickly set about to stamp out "deviancies" from the kingdom in the name of defending the faith, including prostitution, homosexuality, and adultery. And unlike ordinary septons, who are just as corrupt as anybody, they are very principles-based, and do not bow to the wishes of anyone, including the monarchy itself. The previous Faith Militant, which were disbanded during the early years of the Targaryen dynasty, started a seven-year war over a succession they did not bless, so one shouldn't be surprised by their stubbornness.
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The Theocracy / int_a1a8f917	comment	Foundation (2021): Synnax seems to be one, with a planetary pogrom against scientists being declared when they started raising warnings about flooding from the ice caps being melted, which the Seer priests wished to deny. The desert moon named The Maiden, which is at the center of the Luminist faith, is ruled directly by Luminism's leadership. Siwenna appears to exist in a state of anarchy, but armed mobs ruthlessly persecute anyone who is perceived to be undermining the planet's unnamed god of lightning. The Foundation itself is perceived as one by some outsiders in Season 2 due to the rise of the Church of the Galactic Spirit, which espouses Hari Seldon to be a prophet with psychohistory as his prophecy. In truth, while the Church is officially endorsed by the Foundation's government, its leaders are secular and see the religion and its adherents as just another tool to spread the Foundation's influence.
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The Theocracy / int_a288e4b2	comment	In Perfect Creature, the government is handled by the Brotherhood, an all-male vampire clergy that is revered as more perfect version of humans and therefore closer to God. Among their edicts is outlawing genetic research to prevent humans from gaining independence from their power.
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The Theocracy / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: The country of Israel was originally a nation ruled solely by God, with judges as His representatives. It was only when the nation of Israel wanted an actual king that Saul was crowned one.
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The Theocracy / int_a825da3e	comment	The Legion of Dusk in Magic: The Gathering is an nation of vampire crusaders formed from the union between the Church of Dusk and its iron-fisted monarch, as such there is no distinction between the two. They are an ever-expanding empire always seeking to feast on the blood of its enemies, as their religious commandments demand.
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The Theocracy / int_ac978b2	comment	Caliphate takes place in a distant future where most of Western Europe has fallen under fundamentalist Islamic control and has strong-armed German courts to institute sharia law where homosexuals are stoned or hanged, Christians are reduced to second-class citizens whose sons are turned into Janissaries and their daughters are forced to be sex slaves. The United States has similarly adopted Christianity as its state religion in order to oppose the European Islamists, though ironically it was once described as more tolerant of other faiths that weren't Islam such as Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism until the President Evil burned away the Constitution securing religious freedom.
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The Theocracy / int_ad55ec2d	comment	The Reluctant King: Tarxia is ruled by its clergy, with many laws forbidding sensual pleasures. Other religious beliefs are also outlawed, with foreigners that follow them only allowed briefly in the city state.
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The Theocracy / int_b0c4c6b3	comment	Star*Drive has two theocracies amongst its major Stellar Nations, the Hatire Community and the Orlamu Theocracy. The Hatires are a semi-Space Amish society where there is no meaningful difference between church and state and conversion by the sword has become an accepted option (if not actually one that is practically possible or desirable in the current galactic situation). The Orlamists hold intellectual and religious freedoms as well scientific research in the highest regard, in particular drivespace research, and consequently the only actual rights not granted to citizens not of the Orlamu faith is holding the highest positions in government (because the highest positions in government is also the highest positions in the Orlamu church).
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The Theocracy / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: King's Landing turns into one when the Faith Militant is armed by Cersei Lannister to impose the order from the gods in the streets and get rid of her political rivals, only for their leader the High Sparrow to completely back-stab her, throw her in a dungeon and then convert her weak-willed son, King Tommen, into his puppet. During this time, he effectively ruled the city and by extension, Westeros (or whatever remained loyal to the Iron Throne) until his reign comes to a fiery end when Cersei blows up the Sept of Baelor with the High Sparrow and all his followers inside.
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The Theocracy / int_b3ff70e3	comment	The Star Fist series has a Story Arc set on the human colony world Kingdom (officially "The Kingdom of Yahweh and his Saints and their Apostles"), which was apparently established by religious immigrants from other parts of the Confederation, who set up a government run by their religious hierarchies. While officially multi-religious, the planet's ruling body is dominated by the various Christian and Muslim factions, leading to unofficial persecution of other religious groups. Not to mention, there's an Inquisitional force that will arrest, torture, and execute anyone accused of heresy. In the chaotic aftermath of the repelled Skink invasion, the head of said inquisition seizes control of the planet, ditching the theocracy in favor good old fashioned fascism.
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The Theocracy / int_b43f69f	comment	In Necromunda, the Cult of the Redemption is effectively the state religion of House Cawdor and the Cult's rules are strictly enforced by the House's ruling council. Lord Mormaer Cawdor, the current head of the council also considers himself the highest and most pious servant of the God-Emperor on Necromunda, something that causes friction with the Imperial Governor Lord Helmawr.
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The Theocracy / int_b6d7b1e1	comment	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Holy Empire of Ruberios is the seat of power from which the Western Nations' major religion of Luminism was founded, and is the main base of the Holy Knight Order. It does have an emperor, but he's only a Puppet King and vampire subordinate to the True Demon Lord and Vampire Monarch Luminous Valentine...who is also the true identity of the god Luminous, having established the kingdom and religion with the aid of human co-conspirators to create a safe haven for vampires and humans.
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The Theocracy / int_b96af87b	comment	In Pathfinder: Worldscape, the capital city of Shareen is governed by the Martian cult of Issus brought by the Holy Therns when the city's ruler converted to their faith, gaining their loyalty and enacting their religious rules, even though that Shareen is a lawless Wretched Hive and the only rule they care to enforce is a Ban on Magic due to regarding it as blasphemy since it draws from a source other than their goddess. After Camilla is backstabbed by her lieutenants, the Cult's high priestess Phaidor takes direct control of Shareen.
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The Theocracy / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The ginormous Imperium of Man is very much a theocracy, given that they have a crippled Physical God as their supreme ruler with a galaxy-spanning religion, the Imperial Creed, in His name. His cult has a formal church, the Ecclesiarchy, as well as an Inquisition. However, ever since a prominent High Priest went mad and started what is remembered as the Reign of Blood, the Ecclesiarchy itself is no longer allowed to keep "men under arms". Hence the Sisters of Battle. The leaders of Chaos warbands tend to be those who the gods most favor. However, they aren't really priests, as the Chaos gods would much rather their followers kill loyalists and aliens instead of holding masses. The Word Bearers are the purest example. Most other Legions' hierarchies are based at least partially on Might Makes Right and Klingon Promotion, but the Word Bearers' leaders are all taken from the priesthood and then expected to murder each other for position; the Chaos Lords who would be the leaders of, say, a Black Legion force are more like tactical advisors who command the troops in service of the priesthood's objectives. The Adeptus Mechanicus, a seperate political body within the Imperium, is this trope by way of Machine Worship. Their Forge Worlds are overseen by robed tech-priests, with every aspect of production dedicated, through ritual and prayer, to the Machine-God known as the Omnissiah. In a twist of Irony, The Emperor of Mankind himself never wanted for this to happen, having come to view Religion as a whole to be antithetical to the further development of Mankind due to how many conflicts and wars in the past for Humanity were entirely attributed to Religion, and as such when he took control and installed The Imperium of Man he sought to destroy all other religions in order to spare the people from the hardships and fears of dogmatism in order to work together towards one unified goal.
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The Theocracy / int_be03a5ee	comment	Left Behind: The Millennial Kingdom government consists of God as ultimate ruler, Jesus as the ruler of the world, King David as the ruler of Israel, and the apostles as the rulers of the twelve tribes of Israel. It's portrayed as the most benevolent theocracy that ever existed, with God and Jesus Christ permitting freedom of speech and freedom of religion, allowing those who would not become believers in Christ to live either as unbelievers or as members of the Other Light for only 100 years before they die and are sent to Hell.
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The Theocracy / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer: The Lizardmen are led by their Skink priests, who interpret the wills of their gods. The Slann technically overrule the Skinks by virtue of speaking with the de facto voice of the gods, but the Slann's mindset is alien enough that day-to-day operations are outside their remit, so the Skinks run the culture on their behalf. The Skaven are ruled by the Council of Thirteen, a group of twelve ancient Skaven warlords and priests who rule their race in the name of their Omnicidal Maniac god, The Horned Rat, who holds the symbolic thirteenth seat on the Council.
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The Theocracy / int_c2463c55	comment	For most of the humans in Spira, the world of Final Fantasy X, the only government is also the only (apparent) religious institution, the Church of Yevon.
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The Theocracy / int_c4771251	comment	Mistborn: The Original Trilogy brings the Final Empire, a post-apocalyptic dystopia ruled by the Lord Ruler, an immortal who presents himself as a living god. His priests, the Obligators, actually handle the administration side of things.
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The Theocracy / int_c686bb8	comment	The Theocracy of Rausten from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is exactly what its name says, ruled by the Divine Emperor Mansel, who is also its religious leader.
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The Theocracy / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7: In "Cygnus Alpha" High Priest Vargus serves as the absolute ruler on the planet. He wants to expand his rule onto other worlds too, with the use of the Liberator.
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The Theocracy / int_c720f71e	comment	Mike Winger of the YouTube series The Bible Thinker addresses this issue in one of his teaching videos, answering the question of whether Christians should seek to have a theocracy. His answer: yes, but only if the Lord Himself sets it up, because to him all other theocracies would be lies. In another video, he says that Christian governments will eventually fall under the sway of "the evil one".
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The Theocracy / int_cbbb2270	comment	By Tears to Tiara 2, The Empire is de facto Theocracy. What the Corrupt Church says counts. Also discussed. Monomachus suggests drumming up religious fervor to turn the entire thing into a war of religion to solve their manpower shortage, with the people of Hispania warshipping Asharte and the Ba'al gods fighting against The Empire who worship Watos. Despite frequently voicing her desire for followers, Tart says she will not go along with the plan, as people so forced and/or brainwashed are not true believers. Hamil agrees, and decides to form The Alliance to solve their manpower shortage.
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The Theocracy / int_cec99ed9	comment	Safehold, by David Weber: The Temple Lands is one disguised by a very flimsy legal fiction. Technically they are ruled by the Knights of the Temple Lands but every single member of that groups happens to be a member of the church hierarchy and church groups are used to enforce their rule, so it is a de facto if not de jure Theocracy.
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The Theocracy / int_d3cc710e	comment	Jarzon in Blue Rose.
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The Theocracy / int_d532f73	comment	The premise of Christian Nation is that President Sarah Palin and her successor Steve Jordan imposes a dystopian theocracy on the United States.
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The Theocracy / int_d6423831	comment	The Cult of Issus in John Carter of Mars is the state religion of most nations in Barsoom, but the most explicit examples of this trope are the Therns (White Martians), which are ruled by an Holy Hekkador that interprets Issus's divine edicts, and the First-Born (Black Martians) who are directly controlled by her. The few exceptions not under her control also qualify as theocracies of their own such as the city of Phundahl where its empress controls her subjects using fear of their god Tur.
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The Theocracy / int_d8d79afa	comment	In Escape from L.A., the President Evil turns the United States into a virtual theocracy. He makes Christianity mandatory country-wide and religious heterodoxy punishable by death, while enforcing a set of new moral laws for the 'new America'.
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The Theocracy / int_d9673ef7	comment	The Republic of Gilead in The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments is a theocratic military junta established by a far-right Christian group that assassinated the President of the United States and established a fundamentalist regime that follows a brutal interpretation of the Old Testament.
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The Theocracy / int_dc05597a	comment	Knowledge Of Angels: Grandinsula is one. Severo (the Cardinal) is also Prince, due to both his father and older brother dying so that he inherited the position. The Catholic Church is thus also the state religion, with Jews and Saracens (Muslims) relegated to special city quarters and atheism banned (however, this was the case even for countries where the clergy didn't rule then).
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The Theocracy / int_dd936f4a	comment	The Beastmaster: Maax, the high priest of Aruk, makes himself its ruler, instituting human sacrifices.
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The Theocracy / int_df244197	comment	The AlternateHistory.com timeline MalÃª Rising has a few theocracies bubbling up across the world as various religious come into contact with liberation theologies and ideas of freedom from oppression, such as the Kingdom of Samuel the Lamanite (Mormon) in eastern Congo as well as the Fraternal Republic of Honduras (Catholic). It is worth noting that both states arose from poor and/or conflict-ridden regions.
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The Theocracy / int_dfff0805	comment	Orphans of the Sky: The Crew's society is effectively a theocracy by fact if not by name. While a Captain nominally serves as a monarch, the current one is an indolent and ineffective figure who leaves matters of rule to his subordinates. Instead, the Scientists — nominally descended from the Ship's old scientific and engineering personnel, but now a priestly caste — are the main arbiters of morality and social direction, study old texts that lower ranks are not permitted to see, oversee the Converter that produces the Ship's energy, and conduct the ritualized maintenance of shipboard systems. Below them are the Officers, petty nobility who see to most day-to-day affairs, and the common Crew.
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The Theocracy / int_e04f934e	comment	Fire Emblem: Three Houses The Church of Seiros. While ostensibly a neutral power meant to keep the three nations of FÃ³dlan in check, it wields considerable political power and has its own standing military that answers only to the archbishop. The archbishop Rhea is also Seiros herself, having faked her own death in order to continue watching over FÃ³dlan in over a thousand years since the church's founding, effectively making her a shadow ruler. Edelgard isn't very happy with this state of affairs for various reasons and decides to kickstart a war to rid FÃ³dlan of the Church's influence. The Holy Kingdom of Faerghus was founded due to mediation from the church to end the war that the first king Loog von Blaiddyd initiated to fight for its independence from the Adrestian Empire. That said, it is noted that the country's rulers are long-time supporters of the church and this automatically puts them at odds with the empire when Edelgard initiates her plan to destroy the church's grip on FÃ³dlan. When Dimitri dies on the Crimson Flower route, the country rallies around Rhea and the Church and install her as their new leader, becoming a truly proper version of this. This is reinforced in Three Hopes, as Dimitri notes that even though he personally agrees with many of Edelgard's reforms, if she's allowed to dismantle the Central Church it would declare the Blaiddyd line's Divine Right of Kings illegitimate and topple what stability the Kingdom had left after his father King Lambert's demise.
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The Theocracy / int_e06ce4f	comment	House Moon and Star from Equestria Divided is half this, half The Magocracy.
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The Theocracy / int_e235270c	comment	Theocracies are a possible government type in Stellaris, which are available to a species with the Spiritualist ethic. Depending on the other ethics and civics picked, the actual form of government can range from a democracy with politicians drawn from several religious sects to an autocracy ruled by a divinely-ordained (or outright deified) king or emperor.
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The Theocracy / int_e2f9b5f8	comment	In Conan the Barbarian, this is depressingly common with evil cults that worship eldritch abominations being turned into nation wide-state religions. The most triumphant example would be Stygia, which adopts Set as its patron god and is pretty much governed by its high-priest, who outlaws any other religion and uses it to terrorize the populace to keep it in line. Other than Aquilonia under Conan's rule (who institutes freedom of religion), its hard to find a nation with a division between the king and the clergy.
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The Theocracy / int_e47d2ab6	comment	In the Archangel Protocol, access to the LINK (the virtual reality implanted internet) is reserved for members of a religion. And since the LINK is required for operating in society... Every government in the world (except for Russia) has a state religion, and citizenship is conditional on being religious. Essentially, the atheists got the blame for World War III, and this is the result.
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The Theocracy / int_e59216c7	comment	In The Gamer's Alliance, the Godslayer takes over the kingdom of Aison after the Cataclysm and gathers a group of followers, the Grey Cult, which begin ruling the country in the Godslayer's name with the High Prophet as the Godslayer's spokesman.
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The Theocracy / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: The Galactic Empire and several Sith states featured in the Legends material technically qualifies as this trope since its based around the Force rather than any specific deities, and their dogmas are based on Might Makes Right. As such, everyone and everything in the Empire is under the complete domination of the Sith who can do anything they please to non-Sith (rape, kill, enslave, torture), with the military backing up their power. On paper, they are the absolute authority. In practice, the Sith don't care about much outside their own power plays against each other, the military and government officials are too busy kissing up to the Sith or trying to backstab each other to climb the hierarchy in line with Sith ideals of "strength" and "power," and the Intelligence Services are left to be glorified janitors. It's no wonder that the Sith Empires tend to implode as soon as they gain any power in the wider galaxy. The Yuuzhan Vong from the New Jedi Order play this trope straighter, since they have a fantasy pantheon with their supreme leader being revered as something between High Priest and God-Emperor with religion serving as the driving force of their society. Though the priests are only one of the four higher castes, Nom Anor (who knows a thing or two about how governments work, since his job is to subvert them) explicitly notes that their influence is the only thing keeping the other three (warriors, shapers, and intendants) from turning on each other. Also from Legends, the Galactic Republic itself experienced a time as this in supplementary material when it was taken over by a human supremacist cult known as Pius Dea. Their first Supreme Chancellor was a fundamentalist who launched a series of military campaigns against aliens initially to fight off aggression from the Hutts, but they soon decay into an all-out war against all non-humans and their rallying cry was "The Goddess Wills It". Their actions end up alienating most of the Jedi Order except for a few dissidents who join the crusades as the Order of the Terrible Glare, while the others left the Republic completely. Democracy was eventually restored in the Seventh Alsakan Conflict by a Jedi-led alliance composed of Alsakan (a world that had disputed Coruscant's supremacy in numerous wars) with its traditional allies, the Republic alien species, the Pius Dea Renunciates with much of the Republic Navy (who had seen the Pius Dea and their Republic for what it actually was), other dissidents, and the Hutts.
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The Theocracy / int_e6444cd2	comment	The New Order Last Days Of Europe: A potential unifying outcome for warlord Russia is the Divine Mandate of Siberia, under Orthodox faith preacher Alexander Men. This is actually presented as one of the best outcomes for Russia, as the resulting new nation is remarkably progressive and egalitarian - ethnic, sexual and religious minorities are treated as equals and Orthodoxy is not forced on anyone. Conversely one of the worst outcomes for Russia is the Aryan Brotherhood under Zigfrid Schultz, creating an even more openly batshit society than Gutrum Vagner. Renaming himself as High Priest "Velimir", Russia is transformed into Hyperborea, a brutal, Slav-supremacist neopagan dictatorship that models itself as the heir to a lost Aryan civilisation and claims to reconquer land that was historically "Slavo-Aryan" (most of eastern Europe and Palestine), crush the weak races of Asia and the "Jewish Citadel" of the United States. The news event for Hyperborea's formation notes the leader's insane ramblings are "cause for significant alarm among the international community". The Holy Russian Empire under Sergey Taboritsky of Komi is an absolutely screwed-up monarch-theocracy where Taboritsky rules as a regent preparing the nation for the return of Alexei Romanov by cleansing it of its "impurities". Of course, this can never happen as Alexei was murdered by the Soviets as a boy and is never coming back, despite Taboritsky's deranged insistence. This is explicitly stated by the developers to be the absolute worst outcome for Russia, as even Velimir is prone to some bouts of Pragmatic Villainy, whereas Taboritsky is utterly batshit loopy. And then things get even worse when Taboritsky dies suddenly.
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The Theocracy / int_e9e265b6	comment	Fire Emblem: Awakening features the Halidom ("Holy Kingdom" in the Japanese version) of Ylisse, devoted to the worship of the Divine Dragon Naga, as well as a more sinister version in its neighbor Plegia, which is led by the Grimleal, which worship the Fell Dragon Grima (though most Plegians are not themselves Grimleal).
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The Theocracy / int_eb025310	comment	Pandora: Adar is ruled by its religious leader, the Seeker. However, in an unusual example this is an elected position and Seekers run for office, so it's a kind of theocratic republic.
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The Theocracy / int_f1d60caa	comment	Arden in Dragon Queen apparently is one of these, as the priesthood had the legal authority to execute Sajag.
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The Theocracy / int_f401cf02	comment	Blood of the Tribades: Although it's not explicitly stated, the priests pretty clearly rule Bathory.
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The Theocracy / int_f5d369d7	type	The Theocracy
The Theocracy / int_f5d369d7	comment	In Priest (2011), humanity lives under the authority of the Church that controls mega-cities with an iron fist. The regions outside their control are lawless wastelands where the people that chose to not live under the Church's heel are preyed upon by bandits and vampires.
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The Theocracy / int_fdc38e29	type	The Theocracy
The Theocracy / int_fdc38e29	comment	Subverted in Kapitan Bomba. The Kujwdubie galaxy is ruled by the Alien Pope and his congregation of cardinals, but despite their titles and clerical clothing they wear, religious matters are never discussed.
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The Theocracy / int_fe6dcd31	type	The Theocracy
The Theocracy / int_fe6dcd31	comment	Greyhawk: The Theocracy of the Pale. In the Living Greyhawk campaign, the real-world region assigned to it was Utah.
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The Theocracy / int_ff759783	type	The Theocracy
The Theocracy / int_ff759783	comment	Ravelling Wrath: The entire city is organized around the temples of the five gods. In particular, both the schools and the police are run by the Stern Temple, the followers of the Stern God (yes, that's the actual name of the god).
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The Theocracy	processingCategory2	Organization Index
The Theocracy	processingCategory2	Religion Tropes
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The Theocracy	processingCategory2	Trope Names from Other Languages
Kapitan Bomba (Animation) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Gundam: Reconguista in G / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Sojourn (Audio Play) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
A Dragon in Shining Armour / Fan Fic / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Forged Destiny (Fanfic) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Myths and Birthrights (Fanfic) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Cube Zero / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Escape from L.A. / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Jesus Camp / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Kundun / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Planet of the Apes (1968) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Priest (2011) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Beastmaster / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Heavy Object / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Maou / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
After the Revolution / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
An Examination of Extra-Universal Systems of Government / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
And Our Flag Was Not There / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Annals of the Western Shore / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Book of Judges / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Books of Kings / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Captain French, or the Quest for Paradise / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Catherverse / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Christian Nation / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
City of No End / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Decades of Darkness / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Dungeon Robotics / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
For Want of a Nail / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Heavy Object / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Heralds of Rhimn / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Interstellar Gun Runner / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Left Behind / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Magika Swordsman and Summoner / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Malê Rising / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Manifold: Origin / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Orphans of the Sky / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Red Queen / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Star Trek Novel Verse / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Technomagia i smoki / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Age of the Five / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Arts of Dark and Light / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Divine Cities / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Genocides / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Glove of Darth Vader / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Handmaid's Tale / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Last Crusade / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Legend of Drizzt / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Priory of the Orange Tree / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Reluctant King / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The World of Ice & Fire / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Tides of Protomis / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Ward / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
ChantersOfTremaris	seeAlso	The Theocracy
Political Stereotype	seeAlso	The Theocracy
Althanas (Roleplay) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Discord Plays Stellaris (Roleplay) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Empire (Roleplay) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Price Of Wisdom (Roleplay) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Gamer's Alliance (Roleplay) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Last Trumpet (Roleplay) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Vapor: A Steampunk RP (Roleplay) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Who Needs Harmony (Roleplay) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Foundation (2021) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Lexx / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Pandora / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Prison Break / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Handmaid's Tale / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Orville / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Outpost / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Under the Banner of Heaven / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Birthright (Tabletop Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Greyhawk (Tabletop Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Necromunda (Tabletop Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Numenera (Tabletop Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Rifts (Tabletop Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Rocket Age (Tabletop Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Witcher: Game of Imagination (Tabletop Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
After the End: A Post-Apocalyptic America (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Ash Of Gods Redemption (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Bloodborne (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Brigandine (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Celestus (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Civilization: Call to Power (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Crusader Kings (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Dark Souls (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Fallout Pre-War (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Final Fantasy XV (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Frostpunk (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Lords of the Fallen (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Outerplane (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Pax Britannica (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Perimeter (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Red World (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Surviving Mars (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Suzerain (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Sword Girls (Video Game)	seeAlso	The Theocracy
Tears to Tiara 2 (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The New Order: Last Days of Europe (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice (Visual Novel) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Sojourn (Web Animation) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Chitra (Webcomic) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Polcomp Ball (Webcomic) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Unsounded (Webcomic) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Castlevania (2017) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
The Owl House / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy

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