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* There are a few examples in ''Literature/TheShipWho Sang''. In the first story fanatics were attracted to the icy planet Chloe to live in ascetic contemplation, and when the star destabilizes they're quite reluctant to accept help evacuating them as they've come to regard outsiders, and the outside, as impure.

** Dukat sets one up for Pah-Wraith followers on Empok Nor in "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E09Covenant}} Covenant]]".

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* The German film ''Film/{{The Colony|2016}}'' revolves around a young woman who goes into ''Colonia Dignidad'' (Dignity Colony), in an isolated area of the Chilean Andes during the reign of UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet. ''Colonia Dignidad'' was founded by German expatriate, Paul Schaffer, who rules over the other expats with an iron fist, insisting that men and women must be segregated from one another, because he preaches that [[SexIsEvil the love between a man and a woman is wicked and sinful]], however, [[PedophilePriest he regularly rapes little boys]], and leaving the commune is forbidden, with booby traps being set right outside the grounds. He's able to get away with this since the commune gladly accepts [[UnPerson "disappeared" political dissidents,]] and to keep a good relation, [[spoiler: the West German embassy is actively complicit in Scaffer's crimes.]]
* In ''Film/PitchBlack'', Richard B. Riddick encounters Imam, a character determined to find the colony New Mecca, where multiple religious groups are alleged to co-exist without religious conflict. When Riddick journeys to the planet in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', this turns out to be true, although it is soon invaded by a separate group of OmnicidalManiac crusaders.

* Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': In ''Literature/EthanOfAthos'', the planet Athos was settled by a misogynistic religious order as an all-male colony. They used frozen eggs and artificial wombs to keep the population up. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome The inherent practical problems]] of maintaining a stable population on a planet where importing so much as a ''photograph'' of a woman involves considerable paperwork is the focus of the plot, and the Athosians are treated quite sympathetically by the standards of this trope.

* In 1630, another Puritan sect founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony forty miles north of Plymouth, establishing the city of UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}. They promptly made it illegal to be anything but a Puritan, and soon were expelling large numbers of their own members for not being sufficiently Puritan, which is how the nearby colonies of Rhode Island and Connecticut got started. That Boston today is associated with Catholic immigrant populations (Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Caribbean, etc.) and liberal ideology is a supreme irony that probably has the founding Puritans rolling in their graves.)

* The [[FanonDiscontinuity much derided]] Moon-Moon colony, a WackyWaysideTribe in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ''.

* In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', "Mormon Extremists" build themselves Port Joe Smith, a fortified human outpost on a planet considered by the Arachnids to be part of their sphere of influence. [[KillEmAll It didn't end well.]]

* In a benign example, the Fox Cluster orbital colonies from ''2081'', a futurist book published 30 years ago, were founded by pacifists who wanted to establish a community so far away from civilization that it could never be threatened by war. Many of its founders were dedicated Quakers, although membership wasn't mandatory and nobody makes a big deal of this in the story.

The sort of people who, in RealLife, build isolated compounds out in the middle of the desert. The sort who set out in leaky boats with names like ''Mayflower'' and cross vast oceans to build quaint little English villages in the middle of the wilderness on a barely-explored continent.

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* The ''Franchise/StarshipTroopers'' prequel comic by Creator/DarkHorseComics takes place in the Port Joe Smith colony founded by "Mormon Extremists."

* In IDW's ''Franchise/StarTrek'' comic's movieverse version of "Return of the Archons", Beta III is a human colony that worships a computer created by an insane social scientist. (Not the original episode, which has a broadly similar concept, except the Betans are HumanoidAliens.)

* ''Film/{{Prospect}}'': the protagonists are prospecting on an inhospitable alien moon where small societies of people have decided to live there full-time. We don't get many specifics on their culture, but their very odd behavior and customs suggest some weird beliefs.
* The German film ''Film/{{The Colony|2016}}'') revolves around a young woman who goes into ''Colonia Dignidad'' (Dignity Colony), in an isolated area of the Chilean Andes during the reign of UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet. ''Colonia Dignidad'' was founded by German expatriate, Paul Schaffer, who rules over the other expats with an iron fist, insisting that men and women must be segregated from one another, because he preaches that [[SexIsEvil the love between a man and a woman is wicked and sinful]], however, [[PedophilePriest he regularly rapes little boys]], and leaving the commune is forbidden, with booby traps being set right outside the grounds. He's able to get away with this since the commune gladly accepts [[UnPerson "disappeared" political dissidents,]] and to keep a good relation, [[spoiler: the West German embassy is actively complicit in Scaffer's crimes.]]

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* ''Founding Fathers'', a short story by Creator/StephenDedman, mentions several planets of this type and is set on one settled by a bunch of people who were prepared to go to the trouble in order to live and raise their families on a planet with no black people.

* Several Creator/RobertAHeinlein stories mention such colonies, such as that one planet mentioned in ''Literature/{{Friday}}'' where the Pope-in-Exile is allowed to openly celebrate mass.

* Creator/DavidWeber is quite fond of this trope:
** ''Literature/HonorHarrington'':
*** Grayson was founded by the Church of Humanity Unchained, a sort of SpaceAmish cult that wanted to escape from the corrosive effects of technology. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to them, the planet they landed on had such high concentrations of heavy metals that they needed a very high level of technology to simply survive. They later went through a civil war and schism and sent out their own colony of religious dissenters to exile, who formed their own Cult Colony on the nearby (and much more friendly to human habitation) planet of Masada.
*** It crops up several times in the side stories. One is a relatively new colony formed from religious dissidents off Haven, in the novella ''The Service of the Sword'' in the anthology of the same name. Another crops up as part of the Tallbot Sector in much the same position as Grayson, though in this case it's a local bug killing their crops and they were able to relocate to another habitable planet in the other half of their binary star system very early on. Unlike Grayson, the current population is solidly atheist and rather bitter about their ancestors' fanaticism. The Haven-controlled world of Prague was settled by white supremacists who were out to create an Aryan paradise but only ended up with a dirt-poor backwater planet known best for the natural good looks of its prostitutes. Thandi Palane's homeworld was settled by black supremacists who, due to an unintentional side effect of genetic engineering, ended up with descendants who were practically albino. Weber also likes having ironic things happen to this type of colony.
** ''Literature/EmpireFromTheAshes'': Pardal from ''Heirs of Empire''; this is the variety that didn't start out fanatical, but became so after the interstellar civilization that founded it broke down. Specifically, [[spoiler:a super-bioweapon got spread by their [[{{Teleportation}} matter-transmitters]] throughout the Empire; Pardal quarantined itself but heard the death of the rest of the empire on its "radio". Since technology had wiped out their civilization, they destroyed it all and went back to a preindustrial lifestyle, founding a church and theocracy to enforce that.]]
** The ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'' series is similar to Pardal, but the anti-technology religion was artificially created to prevent the planet from being visible (due to radio emissions) to the [[AbsoluteXenophobe genocidal]] alien Gbaba. And also because its creators were a bunch of megalomaniacs that wanted to be worshipped. And may have ended up BelievingTheirOwnLies in the end.
** In the ''Literature/PrinceRoger'' series, one of the major characters is from a colony that was originally this. It was originally strict Roman Catholic, but then the witch hunts started and in the present day the main religion of the planet is Satanism of the SatanIsGood variety.

* In ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'' a group of semi-Rastafarians live in a colony in Earth orbit; they are descended from the workers who built the orbiting pleasure stations.

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* Any world with the "theocracy" government type in ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' might be one of these, and several of them are in canon. It's a fairly typical explanation for why a colony might have been established on an inhospitable world.

* In ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'', the [[PathOfInspiration Morninglight]] have built one of these in South Africa called New Jerusalem.

* ''TabletopGame/TechInfantry'' has the Christian Federation, who turn themselves into this as part of their rebellion against the Earth Federation. Eventually they are crushed with the help of a force of volunteer Jewish mercenaries, who build themselves a CultColony called New Israel on the ruins of the former Christian Federation planets.
* The aptly named Colony from ''AudioPlay/WereAlive''.