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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s one world government on Earth is run by a slew of these, most of which are [[IncrediblyLamePun puns]] based on the names of real parties and lobbyist groups in American politics. These include (but are not limited to) The Antisocialists, the National Raygun Association, Voter Apathy Party, the Rainbow Whigs, the Brain Slug Party, and the Green Party (whose members are literally green). Republican and Democratic parties are known as the Fingerlicans and the Tastycrats. Richard Nixon and his 20th century staff remain Republicans, however.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s one world government on Earth is run by a slew of these, most of which are [[IncrediblyLamePun puns]] {{pun}}s based on the names of real parties and lobbyist groups in American politics. These include (but are not limited to) The Antisocialists, the National Raygun Association, Voter Apathy Party, the Rainbow Whigs, the Brain Slug Party, and the Green Party (whose members are literally green). Republican and Democratic parties are known as the Fingerlicans and the Tastycrats. Richard Nixon and his 20th century staff remain Republicans, however.
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** "Policlubs," essentially highly influential special interest groups, are divided along metatype lines with two of the largest being human-supremacist "Humanis" and the ork-supremacist "Sons Of Sauron".
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** "Policlubs," essentially highly influential special interest groups, are usually divided along metatype lines with two of the largest being human-supremacist "Humanis" and the ork-supremacist "Sons Of Sauron".Sauron". When it comes to activities, policlubs run the entire gamut from "peaceful advocacy group" via "vigilante mob" to "out-and-out terror network". Groups like the NRA, ACLU or NAACP would probably feel right at home among the policlubs of the Sixth World.
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** A Boulder Party splinter group called the Strong Party forms for the 2012 election, collapses afterwards, and reforms by the 2016 election as the Bigfoot Party (Truth Party in some states), running on a platform demanding full government transparency in regards to various conspiracy theories and fringe beliefs.
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** Post-Communist Cuba has the Stability Party (left-leaning centrist), Conservative Party (pro-American hard-right), Nationalist Party (anti-American and anti-Communist right-leaning centrist, which collapses within a decade), and the New Authority Party (officially listed as "third position").
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** Post-Communist Cuba has the Stability Party (left-leaning centrist), Conservative Party (pro-American hard-right), Nationalist Party (anti-American and anti-Communist right-leaning centrist, which collapses within a decade), and the New Authority Party (officially listed as "third position").position" and which also eventually collapses). By the turn of the 21st century, a Progressive Party emerges as a new left-wing group.
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** In disgust at the Republicans going with a moderate candidate in the 2008 election, Bernie Goetz runs a right-wing populist campaign under the banner of the Boulder Party, which is used by like-minded individuals in later elections.
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** During the late 60s/early 70s in Canada, the New Democratic and Social Credit parties merge to form the Progressive Tomorrow Party.
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** During the late 60s/early 70s in Canada, the New Democratic and Social Credit parties merge to form the Progressive Tomorrow Party. And during the 90s, several small populist parties (Action, Alberta, and Frontier) merge into the Action Alliance.
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** The Liberty Union is a Vermont-only far-left party that appears in the 90s and gains nationwide significance when it manages to elect a federal Senator.
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* The city of Haven, from Simon R. Green's ''Hawk & Fisher'' novels, is feuded over by Conservative and Reform blocs, with minority factions representing merchants' Free Trade, the militant/religious Brotherhood of Steel, and Lord Sinclair's personal No Tax On Liquor agenda (a.k.a. the Who's For A Party? party).
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* The city of Haven, from Simon R. Green's ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': In the ''Hawk & Fisher'' novels, spinoff series, the city of Haven is feuded over by Conservative and Reform blocs, with minority factions representing merchants' Free Trade, the militant/religious Brotherhood of Steel, and Lord Sinclair's personal No Tax On Liquor agenda (a.k.a. the Who's For A Party? party).
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** Post-Communist Cuba has the Stability Party (left-leaning centrist), Conservative Party (pro-American hard-right), Nationalist Party (anti-American and anti-Communist right-leaning centrist), and the New Authority Party (officially listed as "third position").
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** Post-Communist Cuba has the Stability Party (left-leaning centrist), Conservative Party (pro-American hard-right), Nationalist Party (anti-American and anti-Communist right-leaning centrist), centrist, which collapses within a decade), and the New Authority Party (officially listed as "third position").
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** During the 1980 election, liberal Democrats and Republicans disgruntled by their parties picking conservative or right-leaning moderate candidates band together as a new Progressive Party (which appears to dissolve by the midpoint of the decade).
** During the late 60s/early 70s in Canada, the New Democratic and Social Credit parties merge to form the Progressive Tomorrow Party.
** The post-Gaddafi parties of Libya are Libyan Movement (sympathetic but skeptical of the West), Independent Pathway (pro-West but anti-US), and National Identity (conservative "third way").
** During the late 60s/early 70s in Canada, the New Democratic and Social Credit parties merge to form the Progressive Tomorrow Party.
** The post-Gaddafi parties of Libya are Libyan Movement (sympathetic but skeptical of the West), Independent Pathway (pro-West but anti-US), and National Identity (conservative "third way").
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** During the 1964 election, Farris Bryant's third party Dixiecrat campaign coalesces as the Heritage Independence Party. This results in his right-wing supporters being the ones who become known as hippies (or rather, "H.I.P.ies") in this timeline.
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** During the 1964 election, Farris Bryant's third party Dixiecrat campaign coalesces as the Heritage Independence Party. This results in his right-wing supporters being the ones who become known as hippies (or rather, "H.I.P.ies") in this timeline. In the 1972 election, this party suffers ideological schisms, with social conservatives staying under the HIP banner, fiscal conservatives and isolationists forming the Defense Party, and populists and segregationists forming the Country Party.
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** Post-Communist Cuba has the Stability Party (left-leaning centrist), Conservative Party (pro-American hard-right), Nationalist Party (anti-American and anti-Communist right-leaning centrist), and the New Authentic Party (officially listed as "third position").
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** Post-Communist Cuba has the Stability Party (left-leaning centrist), Conservative Party (pro-American hard-right), Nationalist Party (anti-American and anti-Communist right-leaning centrist), and the New Authentic Authority Party (officially listed as "third position").
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** When Vietnam finally transitions to democracy after the period of military dictatorship following the defeat of the communists, the country's politics are dominated by the Peaceful Today and Tomorrow Party and the Heal and Rebuild Together Party.
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** During the 1964 election, Farris Bryant's third party Dixiecrat campaign coalesces as the Heritage Independence Party. This results in his right-wing supporters being the ones who become known as hippies (or rather, "H.I.P.ies") in this timeline.
** In 1966, Timothy Leary founds the Natural Mind Party as a political extension of his philosophical beliefs.
** Post-Communist Cuba has the Stability Party (left-leaning centrist), Conservative Party (pro-American hard-right), Nationalist Party (anti-American and anti-Communist right-leaning centrist), and the New Authentic Party (officially listed as "third position").
** During the 1964 election, Farris Bryant's third party Dixiecrat campaign coalesces as the Heritage Independence Party. This results in his right-wing supporters being the ones who become known as hippies (or rather, "H.I.P.ies") in this timeline.
** In 1966, Timothy Leary founds the Natural Mind Party as a political extension of his philosophical beliefs.
** Post-Communist Cuba has the Stability Party (left-leaning centrist), Conservative Party (pro-American hard-right), Nationalist Party (anti-American and anti-Communist right-leaning centrist), and the New Authentic Party (officially listed as "third position").
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* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' features the Citizens' Liberal Party, which is quite transparently a stand-in for the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. Very little is made of any actual policies, but the party's backroom shenanigans, power-brokering and shady-to-outright-illegal connections to yakuza and industrial groups (again, echoing scandals surrounding the Liberal Democratic Party) are very much front-and-center.
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* In Podcast/WaywardGuideForTheUntrainedEye, [[QuirkyTown Connor Creek]] has three local parties:
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* [[Podcast/WaywardGuideForTheUntrainedEye]]'s [[QuirkyTown Connor Creek]] has three local parties:
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* [[Podcast/WaywardGuideForTheUntrainedEye]]'s [[QuirkyTown Connor Creek]] has three local parties:
** ​The [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Conservative Conservation]] Party
** ​The Liberal Use of Federal Filibuster Party
** ​The [[{{Pun}} EggCeptional]] Independent Party (which includes exactly 1 delegate)
** ​The [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Conservative Conservation]] Party
** ​The Liberal Use of Federal Filibuster Party
** ​The [[{{Pun}} EggCeptional]] Independent Party (which includes exactly 1 delegate)
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'':
** The Clans developed two political factions at the beginning of the Political Century: The Wardens and the Crusaders. Both were based on interpretations of Alexander Kerensky's "Hidden Hope Doctrine", which had originally been a RousingSpeech intended to boost the SLDF exiles' morale by pointing out the faults in the Inner Sphere they had left behind. The Crusaders interpreted the Hidden Hope Doctrine as a wish that the Clans would one day return to the Inner Sphere and put an end to its ForeverWar by conquering the Great Houses and resurrecting [[GoldenAge Star League]] under Clan leadership, while the Wardens interpreted it as the Clans needing to stay apart from the Inner Sphere and develop their own society with a higher moral standard, only returning to it if an external foe threatened to overrun humanity. The Wardens quickly saw that the greatest threat to the Inner Sphere was the Crusaders, leading to an irrevocable split between the two factions. The Crusaders eventually came out on top, sparking the Clan Invasion storyline.
** Following the Wars of Reaving, a giant CivilWar (initially) fought between Clans who had participated in the Clan Invasion (mostly Crusaders) and Clans who had been forced to remain behind on the Clan homeworlds (mostly Wardens), Clan society became highly insular and began viewing the Inner Sphere as irrevocably tainted. The result was two new political parties rising from the ashes: The Bastions, who saw the Inner Sphere as a place where the Clan lifestyle went to die and wanted noting more to do with it, and the Aggressors, who saw the continued existence of the Inner Sphere as a threat to the Clan Way and wanted a second Clan Invasion with the express purpose of wiping it out.
** The Clans developed two political factions at the beginning of the Political Century: The Wardens and the Crusaders. Both were based on interpretations of Alexander Kerensky's "Hidden Hope Doctrine", which had originally been a RousingSpeech intended to boost the SLDF exiles' morale by pointing out the faults in the Inner Sphere they had left behind. The Crusaders interpreted the Hidden Hope Doctrine as a wish that the Clans would one day return to the Inner Sphere and put an end to its ForeverWar by conquering the Great Houses and resurrecting [[GoldenAge Star League]] under Clan leadership, while the Wardens interpreted it as the Clans needing to stay apart from the Inner Sphere and develop their own society with a higher moral standard, only returning to it if an external foe threatened to overrun humanity. The Wardens quickly saw that the greatest threat to the Inner Sphere was the Crusaders, leading to an irrevocable split between the two factions. The Crusaders eventually came out on top, sparking the Clan Invasion storyline.
** Following the Wars of Reaving, a giant CivilWar (initially) fought between Clans who had participated in the Clan Invasion (mostly Crusaders) and Clans who had been forced to remain behind on the Clan homeworlds (mostly Wardens), Clan society became highly insular and began viewing the Inner Sphere as irrevocably tainted. The result was two new political parties rising from the ashes: The Bastions, who saw the Inner Sphere as a place where the Clan lifestyle went to die and wanted noting more to do with it, and the Aggressors, who saw the continued existence of the Inner Sphere as a threat to the Clan Way and wanted a second Clan Invasion with the express purpose of wiping it out.
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* The Drazi in ''Series/BabylonFive'' have two main political parties: Purple and Green. These parties have no coherent ideology, demographics or founding ideal: All Drazi of voting age are randomly assigned to either Green or Purple at the beginning of each election cycle, by drawing a coloured sash out of a box (one sash of each colour has a leader mark on it, marking that person as the local party leader). The two parties then beat each other up until one party has had enough and concedes the election, at which point the winning party forms a government behind its leaders and the sashes are put back in their boxes, dissolving both parties. Drazi politics has managed to operate on this system for centuries and they are completely okay with it.
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* In ''Film/DeathRace2000'', Frankenstein runs over "The Deacon of the Bipartisan Party" for 50 points. Apart from both running and sponsoring the eponymous death race and having religious figures in positions of power in the party, not much is known about this party's platform or political views.
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* In ''Film/DeathRace2000'', Frankenstein runs over "The Deacon of the Bipartisan Party" for 50 points. Apart from both running and sponsoring the eponymous death race and having religious figures in positions of power in the party, not much is known about this party's platform or political views.views, but it's possibly a fusion of the Democratic and Republican Parties to judge by its name.
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* ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'': The council of Karthain is dominated by two parties -- the Deep Roots, founded by OldMoney, and the Black Iris, comprising young progressives. However, the city-state's true rulers are the [[SupernaturalElite Bondsmagi]], who secretly mind-control the {{Muggles}} into doing whatever they want and treat the elections like a spectator sport.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'': Pinky ran on the Pink Party's ticket. The party predated Pinky himself, although its only resource was a bus and its only staff member was [[TheGump the hapless engineer of every major political gaffe in the past 40 years]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'': Pinky ran on the Pink Party's ticket. The party predated Pinky himself, although its only resource was a bus and its only staff member was [[TheGump the hapless engineer of every major political gaffe in the past 40 years]]. years]], such as telling Nixon to sweat to win the nervous man's vote.
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On one hand, this trope can be played seriously as it can be a reflection of people's attitudes towards the events or backstory that shape the setting; such examples may be viewed as a "realistic" political ideology that may exist had the extraordinary or fantastic events in the story's world been something that occurred in our own reality (and may not be all that different from RealLife party platforms and ideologies, after all).
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On one hand, this trope can be played seriously as it can be a reflection of a society's or certain people's attitudes towards the events or backstory that shape the a narrative's setting; such examples may be viewed as a "realistic" political ideology that may exist had the extraordinary or fantastic events in the story's world been something that occurred in our own reality (and may not be all that different from RealLife party platforms and ideologies, after all).
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', the U.S. still has Republicans and Democrats, but they share the political stage with the Technocrat, Archconservative and New Century parties. Cross-party alliances, and campaign tickets, are common.
** On top of this, ''Shadowrun'' also has policlubs, which are less political parties and more highly influential special interest groups. Surprisingly many of them are divided along metatype lines, with two of the largest being human-supremacist "Humanis" and the ork-supremacist "Sons Of Sauron".
** On top of this, ''Shadowrun'' also has policlubs, which are less political parties and more highly influential special interest groups. Surprisingly many of them are divided along metatype lines, with two of the largest being human-supremacist "Humanis" and the ork-supremacist "Sons Of Sauron".
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'':
** The U.S. still has Republicans and Democrats, but they share the political stage with the Technocrat, Archconservative and New Century parties. Cross-party alliances, and campaign tickets, are common.
**On top of this, ''Shadowrun'' also has policlubs, which are less political parties and more "Policlubs," essentially highly influential special interest groups. Surprisingly many of them groups, are divided along metatype lines, lines with two of the largest being human-supremacist "Humanis" and the ork-supremacist "Sons Of Sauron".
** The U.S. still has Republicans and Democrats, but they share the political stage with the Technocrat, Archconservative and New Century parties. Cross-party alliances, and campaign tickets, are common.
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** In the [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 confidant]] with former Diet member Yoshida, the Liberal Co-Prosperity Party is mentioned as the party an influential group of Diet members want to leave due to recent scandals within the goverment. It's not clear if this is a stand-in for the real Liberal Democrat Party though.
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** In the [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 confidant]] with former Diet member Yoshida, the Liberal Co-Prosperity Party Party, a possible stand-in for the RealLife Liberal Democrat Party, is mentioned as the party that an influential group of Diet members want to leave due to recent scandals within the goverment. It's not clear if this is following a stand-in for the real Liberal Democrat Party though.string of scandals.
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' gives us the United Future Party. Considering how the party's founder, [[PresidentEvil Masayoshi Shido]], was formerly a member of the real-world [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JapanesePoliticalSystem Liberal Democrat Party]], it's assumed that the party has a somewhat-similar, if not extremely exaggerated, ideology or platform.
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' gives us the ''VideoGame/Persona5''
** The United Future Party. Considering how the party's founder, [[PresidentEvil Masayoshi Shido]], was formerly a member of the real-world [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JapanesePoliticalSystem Liberal Democrat Party]], it's assumed that the party has a somewhat-similar, if not extremely exaggerated, ideology orplatform.platform.
** In the [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 confidant]] with former Diet member Yoshida, the Liberal Co-Prosperity Party is mentioned as the party an influential group of Diet members want to leave due to recent scandals within the goverment. It's not clear if this is a stand-in for the real Liberal Democrat Party though.
** The United Future Party. Considering how the party's founder, [[PresidentEvil Masayoshi Shido]], was formerly a member of the real-world [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JapanesePoliticalSystem Liberal Democrat Party]], it's assumed that the party has a somewhat-similar, if not extremely exaggerated, ideology or
** In the [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 confidant]] with former Diet member Yoshida, the Liberal Co-Prosperity Party is mentioned as the party an influential group of Diet members want to leave due to recent scandals within the goverment. It's not clear if this is a stand-in for the real Liberal Democrat Party though.
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* All political parties in the Danish series ''Series/{{Borgen}}'' are fictional. However, they are thinly veiled versions of real life Danish parties.
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* All political parties in the Danish series ''Series/{{Borgen}}'' are fictional. However, they are thinly veiled versions of real life Danish parties. They also seem to represent a simplified left-right "sliding scale" that's easier for the viewer to understand.
** Nyborg's centre-left coalition consists of:
*** The Solidarity Party (hard-left with Muslims like Aicha Nagrawi, led by Anna-Sophie Linderkrone, resembling the real-life Red-Green Coalition)
*** The Greens (left-wing & green like the Socialist People's Party, led by Amir Diwan)
*** The Labour Party (centre-left, like the real-life Social Democrats, and modernising under Laugesen)
*** The Moderate Party (centre-left/centre, like the Social Liberal Party in real-life).
** On the right, meanwhile, are:
*** The Liberals (centre-right, clearly based on the real-life Venstre)
*** The New Right Party (right-wing conservative, led by Yvonne Kjær, similar to the Conservative People's Party)
*** The Freedom Party (hard-right and stated to be descended from Glistrup's Progress, just like the real-life Danish People's Party).
** In the third season, we get the New Democrats, another centre-left party, as the Moderates move centre-right.
** Nyborg's centre-left coalition consists of:
*** The Solidarity Party (hard-left with Muslims like Aicha Nagrawi, led by Anna-Sophie Linderkrone, resembling the real-life Red-Green Coalition)
*** The Greens (left-wing & green like the Socialist People's Party, led by Amir Diwan)
*** The Labour Party (centre-left, like the real-life Social Democrats, and modernising under Laugesen)
*** The Moderate Party (centre-left/centre, like the Social Liberal Party in real-life).
** On the right, meanwhile, are:
*** The Liberals (centre-right, clearly based on the real-life Venstre)
*** The New Right Party (right-wing conservative, led by Yvonne Kjær, similar to the Conservative People's Party)
*** The Freedom Party (hard-right and stated to be descended from Glistrup's Progress, just like the real-life Danish People's Party).
** In the third season, we get the New Democrats, another centre-left party, as the Moderates move centre-right.
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* All parties in the Danish series ''Series/{{Borgen}}'' are fictional however they are poorly veiled versions of real life Danish parties.
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* In E.E.Smith's ''Literature/FirstLensman'', the party system in North America is the Cosmocrats and the Nationalists.
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* In E.E.Smith's ''Literature/FirstLensman'', ''[[Literature/{{Lensman}} First Lensman]]'', the party system in North America is the Cosmocrats (supporting the nascent [[TheFederation Galactic Patrol]]) and the Nationalists.Nationalists (manipulated by [[TheEmpire Boskone]]).
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* ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'' has the American Values Party, formed in 1960 by Joe [=McCarthy=], the Dixiecrats, and other reactionary figures in response to both the government's occult research and the black unrest in the South that it's allegedly fueling.
