History Main / OneWorldOrder

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', the entire world is ruled by the aptly named World Government. In the past, there were other countries (at least 20) but they banded together to defeat the old world power. Nowadays there is a civil war led by the Revolutionary known as Dragon.
** However, the World Government is, in many senses, more similar to the real-life United Nations than to a single state. It is repeatedly shown that the leaders of countries that are part of the World Government still hold considerable power, and Vivi has numerous flashbacks that show the kings and leaders engaged in debates and politics similar in style to, say, the UN Security Council. The core differences are that the World Government a) seems much more united in its efforts than the often divided and bickering UN and b) has vastly more resources at its direct disposal.
** There are ''still'' many minor governments, but the World Government is working hard to incorporate them (sometimes peacefully sometimes... not), or obliterate them and send their populations to slave works. [[TheEmpire They are that kind of people]].
** It is noted there are some unaffiliated countries, but in most cases it's because they're poor nations unable to pay the "Heavenly Tribute" tax required by member states of the World Government. These countries usually become lawless wastelands without the protection of the Marines due to constant pirate raids.
** And within the World Government, there are people everywhere on the moral scale. Compare Spandam, who (used to) run Cipher Pol 9, an assassination network, and has no qualms about shooting anyone, even his own allies, if it meant avoiding trouble; to Magellan and Hannyabal, who run the world's top-security prison and genuinely feel their duty is to keep the world's worst criminals from wreaking havoc on innocent people. As a result, normal people's views on the World Government are a mixed bag, with either dread or relief depending who they find out is involved.
* Anatoray and Disith in ''Anime/LastExile'' eventually merge to form this under the leadership of [[spoiler:Empress Sophia]].
* Sara's and Lottie's home planet in ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'', as well as possibly the whole Union, resembles... Victorian England in space with gender equality. Go figure.
* In ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', Earth and several lunar and Martian colonies are governed by United Earth, with a united military force called the "United Earth Allied Forces"
* Common in the Gundam franchise:

* In ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', many organizations hope that Johan Liebert will lead them to this. Johan Liebert doesn't care about any of that as he shows all of them that EvilIsNotAToy.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has [[TheEmpire the Holy Britannian Empire]] become this briefly in the end after the FinalBattle, conquering the fledgling United Federation of Nations. [[spoiler:After Lelouch dies, Britannia gives up those recently-conquered territories and begins to coexist peacefully with the rest of the world.]]
* The Science Adventure series, which includes ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead'', ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' and ''VisualNovel/RoboticsNotes'' involves the [[spoiler: Committee of 300 who seek to unite the world through a one world government]].
* Earth Federation in ''Anime/TransformersEnergon''.

* Some ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'' are set in a world ruled by a single (and malevolent) government, as foretold according to some interpretations of Christian end times prophesies.

* In ''Film/SpaceTruckers'', not only is Earth run by a single government, but that government is about to be privatized by a CorruptCorporateExecutive named E.J. Saggs.
* In the second ''Film/TheOmegaCode'' film, [[TheAntichrist Stone Alexander]] convinces the leaders of the world to create a united government and name him as its president. He proceeds to endear himself to the world by coming down on terrorism ''hard''. The world is split into various "zones", but a few nations are still holding out and refusing to submit, including the US, China, and a number of Latin American countries. The American President even bristles at his country being offhandedly mentioned as part of the North-American Zone, stating that he's still the President of the "United BLESSED States of America". By the end, Stone even starts wearing a military uniform and a beret, like he's a third world dictator or something. [[spoiler:The Chinese appear to submit eventually, and all three hold-out armies send their forces to join Stone's, only to attack suddenly, with Stone's brother David, now the President of the US, leading the charge.]]

* In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', most species on the galactic scene are very much from a PlanetOfHats.
** ''But...'' at the same time the trope is somewhat {{averted|Trope}}. Several alien species hail from a number of planets - Duros, Twi'leks, Zabraks, and, yes, humans, all come from any number of worlds rather than just One World Order. Even the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mandalorians]] (more of a loose cultural affiliation rather than a species) now come in more than one variety, each wildly different than the other, thanks to ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. It's also worth noting that the galaxy is, itself, often depicted as a multispecies coalition rather than as single-race empires.
** ''[[Literature/XWingSeries Starfighters of Adumar]]'' is about, among other things, a planet that had been human-colonized and left isolated being discovered by the New Republic and the Empire. The planet, Adumar, was a nonunified mass of countries, many at war with each other, making trying to get the world to affiliate with one or the other complicated. Negotiations were with the leader of the largest country with the greatest number of allies. He was trying to unite the planet under him; other countries weren't having that, and there was a battle. The bottom line has a world government formed from representatives of each country, rather than that one guy.
* In the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' series by Creator/TimLaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, TheAntichrist becomes leader of the UN and creates the Global Community, declaring a single world government, currency, and ''religion''. No one objects, and it's not clear if this is supposed to be because of his MindControl abilities. Its successor, the universal state created by {{God}} after the Second Coming, also qualifies as a (supposedly) more benign example.
* Ira Levin's ''Literature/ThisPerfectDay'' has the entire world unified under the control of one gigantic supercomputer, although the backstory shows that political and cultural unification predates the building of UNICOMP by a generation or two, while each continent had its own computer before that (EUROCOMP, USACOMP, et cetera). This political unification is one of the few things about his society that doesn't annoy the hero so much that he decides to blow up the computer.
%%* This is one of the main points of the paradise-like Third Earth of Creator/DJMacHale's ''Literature/{{Pendragon}}''.
* The first arc of ''Literature/PerryRhodan'', "The Third Power", features the unification of Earth under ultimately one of these as part of the plot. Here it's presented as a positive development -- the 1971 Earth of this universe is caught up in a ''three-way'' Cold War (loosely, in addition to the standard split China and the Soviets don't exactly see eye to eye either) and needs to get its act together because the first aliens have ''already'' arrived in their crashed starship on the Moon and more are sure to eventually follow.
* In Peter F Hamilton's ''Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy'', Earth deliberately creates colonies of this sort by a process of "ethnic streaming", to avoid giving people obvious differences to fight over. This is realised after the first, multi-ethnic extra-solar colonies descend into anarchy. Earth itself has a unified government, [=GovCentral=].
* In Dan Simmon's ''Literature/HyperionCantos'' books, the Hegemony of Man is a Multiple-World Order, with almost 250 planets under one government, all connected by millions of [[PortalNetwork Farcaster portals]].
* In ''Literature/RocketshipGalileo'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, peace is enforced by the guided rockets of the U.N. World Patrol.

* In the contemporary Literature/TakeshiKovacs novels by Richard Morgan, a U.N. Protectorate maintains its rule over the Earth colonies by propaganda, military force and subtle corruption.
** A particularly cynical version appears in Creator/LarryNiven's stories of Svetz the [[TimeTravel time traveler]]. The "[=SecGen=]" is apparently the absolute monarch of humanity, but the current [=SecGen=] (the product of [[RoyallyScrewedUp centuries of inbreeding]]) is a grown man with the mind of a small child. The actual control of the government rests with those who are most successful at [[DecadentCourt bureaucratic infighting]] and at cajoling the [=SecGen=] into approving their decisions.
* In ''Literature/AWorldOutOfTime'' by Creator/LarryNiven, the HumanPopsicle protagonist is revived into a world ruled by the State, a totalitarian government that controls all of Earth and its offworld colonies (although the colonies have something to say about that later in the novel).

* ''Literature/ThePolity'': This is pretty much what the Polity is -- it's autocratic but fairly benevolent.
* [[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker German philosopher]] Oswald Spengler wrote in his non-fiction book ''Literature/TheDeclineOfTheWest'' that he thought the western civilization might create this at the end.
* ''Literature/CarrerasLegions'': The UN became this several centuries prior to current events in the series, and was renamed United Earth after the concept of nations was eliminated through legislative and bureaucratic methods.
* In the ''Literature/ChildeCycle'', the worlds of Newton, Cassida, the Friendlies, and Exotics are governed by strong planetary governments. Newton and Cassida are ruled by technocrats, [[ChurchMilitant the Friendlies]] are a theocratic republic, and the Exotics are... [[ThePhilosopher unique]]. Though there are constant sectarian violence with the Friendlies, their leadership is powerful enough to keep things in order.
* The ''Literature/TowerAndTheHive'' series has humanity united under the Star League. In the ''Pegasus'' trilogy, we get to witness the evolution of the United World; while the world is united under one government, that government is composed of layers of international institutions, and the various nation-states still exist and retain sovereignty.
* The UHU (United Human Universe) in Maurice Dantec's ''Cosmos Incorporated'' although it's vague on how much actual power it has as national governments still exist under it's umbrella.
* In ''Literature/TheMoonMaid'' by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs, 21st-century Earth is united under "[[ValuesDissonance the Anglo-Saxon race]]," and governed jointly by the United States and the United Kingdom. This is broken in ''The Moon Men'', when the Earth is invaded by the lunar people.

* Most alien societies follow this in the ''Literature/EarthCentAmbassador'' ebooks, but [=EarthCent=] itself doesn't have much actual power over humans in general or Earth's nations in particular: it's initially little more than a formality imposed by the Stryx in exchange for FTL drive. Kelly's diplomatic exploits start to expand its influence over the course of the series.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's
** "Literature/AllTheTroublesOfTheWorld": With [[MasterComputer Multivac the supercomputer]], Earth has merged all governments into a single organization run by the greatest computer ever devised. [[TerminallyDependentSociety If Multivac were to be destroyed]], it would be TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
** "Literature/TheBicentennialMan": Like many other stories in the Literature/RobotSeries, America's form of government has expanded to encompass the entire world. Sir is a member of the Regional Legislature, while there also exists a World Legislature, World Court, and World President.
** "Literature/TheDeadPast": At [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture this point in the future]], there's a single unified government that has taken over not only the national governments, but also the colleges and universities that teach and sponsor scientific research.
** "{{Literature/Evidence}}": The different countries of Earth are replaced by nameless Regions, and laws are justified with references to individual Rights under the Regional Articles. It's made more explicit in the collection I, Robot, and Dr Calvin says the Regions of Earth formed a Federation in 2044.
** "Literature/TheEvitableConflict": Stephen Byerley is the chief executive of the world, and given the title Co-ordinator of the Earth. Below him are the four Regional Vice Co-ordinators, one for each of the geopolitical parts of the world; Chin Hso-lin (The Eastern Region), Lincoln Ngoma ([[{{Afrofuturism}} The Tropic Region]]), Madam Szegeczowska (The European Region), and Mr Mackenzie (The Northern Region). Of course, [[TheManBehindTheMan all policy decisions are actually made by the Machines]].
** "Literature/TheHazing": ImpliedTrope based on one of the aliens commenting that the [[HumansByAnyOtherName humans from the Solarian System]] have a "world capital" called Earth.
** "Literature/HomoSol":
*** It is implied that the humans of Sol have formed a single unified government by the existence of Terrapolis, known as the capital city of Earth.
*** It is stated several times that the only known forms of intelligent life in the galaxy are HumanoidAliens. Over two hundred species have joined the GalacticSuperpower so far.
** "Literature/InAGoodCause":
*** Altmayer is constantly pushing towards a single human government, but his friend Stock seems to oppose him. Stock actually has [[ThePlan a plan to unite the human governments]], one that depends on having an idealist calling for unity amoung the various human-colonized worlds.
*** The alien Diaboli have always had a single government, and [[HumansThroughAlienEyes find it disturbing that humans have almost always been fractious]].
** "Literature/TheMartianWay": There's not much said about the world government, but it is implied to essentially be the same branches as the USA's. The General Assembly is a legislative branch with committees and Assemblyman Hilder is aiming to become the next Global Co-ordinator. The [[ColonizedSolarSystem colonies]] appear to have their own local governments because they sign trade deals with Earth.
** "Literature/MotherEarth": Earth is the capital of the Terrestrian Empire, but even as this story begins, the empire has shrunk to Earth's system alone. Each of the Outer Worlds, as the colony planets call themselves, has their own planetary government, and they've broken several ties with Earth. The belligerence displayed by the Terrestrial government [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression provokes the Outer Worlds to war against the homeworld]]. At the end of the story, Ernest Keilin learns about the conspiracy that provoked the war, and how they're arranging for him to be President of Earth under a brand-new constitution. They envision Earth taking the lead again [[LongGame in a century's time]].
** "Literature/NotFinal": Earthmen have united under a single government, one that has begun colonizing additional parts of the Solar System, including {{UsefulNotes/Ganymede}}.
** "Literature/TheTercentenaryIncident": Despite revolving around the celebration of [[FoundingDay America's tercentennial]], it is no longer the USA, and is instead one political segment of a larger Planetary Council, which is the governing body of a Federation that encompasses all of humanity, including the ColonizedSolarSystem.
--->It was no longer a nation in the old sense; it was rather a geographic expression; part of a greater whole that made up the Federation of all of humanity on Earth, together with its offshoots on the Moon and in the space colonies. By culture and heritage, however, the name and the idea lived on, and that portion of the planet signified by the old name was still the most prosperous and advanced region of the world...And the President of the United States was still the most powerful single figure in the Planetary Council.
** "Literature/TheWeaponTooDreadfulToUse": The Terrestrial Government runs all of Earth's affairs, with a President of Earth. Until the native Venusians revolted, there was a provincial Venusian Government as well, which reported to the Terrestrial one.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/JanetAsimov's ''Literature/TheNorbyChronicles'': A {{Downplayed|Trope}} example because while the Solar Federation is a government for the entire ColonizedSolarSystem, it doesn't have absolute command. Even places like Manhattan International Territory are considered part of the Solar Federation. The organization is probably intended to be similar to the different jurisdictions of Federal, State, and Municipality governments in America.
* ''Literature/TheSisterVerseAndTheTalonsOfRuin'' has this in just about every dystopic government introduced, the Crest being of particular note, who attempted to merge every universe into one for the purpose of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero social unification]].
* ''Literature/ArrivalsFromTheDark'': Averted in the first novel ''Invasion'', with the old nation-states still around (although some have merged, such as US and Canada for one and Europe for another). In fact, until the arrival of aliens, the SpaceNavy's primary concern is fighting a number of rogue terrorist nations that have sprung up over the past several decades. After the failed invasion, however, the UN is fairly quickly upgraded to the World Government. A few novels later, it's further transformed into the [[TheFederation Earth Federation]] that includes the Solar System and all human extrasolar colonies. Averted in the case of the [[HumanAliens Kni'lina]], whose homeworld is split into a number of clans/subspecies, dominated by the Ni and the Poharas clans, who even have different cultures and governments (the Ni are technocratic and secular, while the Poharas are deeply religious and have an empire). Most Kni'lina colonies tend to belong to a particular clan, but at least one is evenly split between the Ni and the Poharas, with plenty of tension on that planet. In fact, during the Human-Kni'lina War, only the Ni and their affiliated clans were involved in open hostilities with humans, the Poharas maintained their neutrality.
* In ''Literature/TheHistoryOfTheGalaxy'' books, Earth is initially dominated by four superpowers, but they are eventually absorbed into the World Government, although a number of MegaCorp have considerable influence. After the Great Exodus, with thousands of FTL-capable colony ships have left the Solar System never to returns, the various mining colonies across the system lord over the overpopulated and resource-starved Earth. Eventually, John Winston Hammer is elected President of Earth, and he proceeds to conquer the entire Solar System, establishing the Terran Alliance. Most colonies are also run by a single government.
* Emperor Dayless tried to create one of these in the backstory of ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror'' so as to gain the resources needed to wipe [[OurWightsAreDifferent the Shade]] out once and for all. The problem was that he tried to do so via militaristic expansion, hence his title, "the Conqueror."

* The Architects of the Flesh from ''TabletopGame/FengShui'' have set up one of these in 2056, run by the Bureau of Tactical Management (or the Buro in short). The population is kept in line through powerful feng shui, though there are still pockets of resistance around the world. There's also one major area that is immune to the influence of Chi and where technology more advanced than ancient weapons just doesn't work, watched over by the Vikings.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Crimestrikers}}'', [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals Creaturia]] has a (mostly) benevolent world government, led by a parliamentary body-cum-FictionalUnitedNations called the Creaturian Council.
* PlayedWith in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', where One World Orders were brought about twice, only to collapse within a century or two. First there was the Terran Alliance (Earth and the initial human colonies), which fell apart when first the colonies rebelled and then Terrans themselves overthrew the Alliance. Later practically all of humanity - the Great Houses of the Inner Sphere and the Periphery states - were united under the First Star League. This fell apart again after two hundred years, leading to a ForeverWar that has raged on and off (mostly 'on') for nearly four centuries now (2786 to the 'present day' of 3151), with the driving impetus being reestablishing the Star League in one form or another.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' uniting the whole planet is the last step to unlock space travel.
** Once you control 8-9 of the 10 cities, the others will hail you and explain that they "see the writing on the wall" and just join your empire on the spot.
** Alternatively, if the last empire left is allied with you, they'll agree to join you peacefully "so the world may live as one!"
* The EDEN empire in the ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'' games encompasses a lot of diverse planets, but yup, each one has one culture to its name. Parodied (as with all things) in the ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'' anime, where there are such things as industrial planets, resort planets, etc. owned by one ''person''.
* Earth finally uniting as this is the reason why the Cyrollans extend an invitation for humankind to join the Symbiotry of Peaceful Beings in ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject'' [[spoiler: and why a key element in Dr. Elliot Sinclair's plan to prevent the Cyrollans, who he sees as a threat - legitimately so, as the third game reveals - from having an interest in Earth involves disrupting the peace talks that resulted in Earth's unification]].

* Played straight in the ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' series with [=EarthGov=]. It's mentioned in background sources that this was the result of several wars, political upheavals and the depletion of natural resources planetside. It's also mentioned, however, that special preference was made to the United States.
* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', the Administrator is the [=CEO=] of two {{NGO Superpower}}s, [=RED=] and [=BLU=], and a [[WarForFunAndProfit weapon supply company]], [=TFIndustries=]; all together, they give her complete control of the entire world.
** In many ways, this has become EarlyInstallmentWeirdness though. [=RED=] and [=BLU=] are now depicted as a pair of obsolete companies fighting over a resource that stopped being viable decades ago. The weapon and supply company was renamed to Mann Co. While owning it is considered to be a highly desired, and the Administrator is still a class A manipulator, the world is clearly not under her control.
* The ultimate objective of most ''VideoGame/TotalWar'' games is to make one of these with your faction of choice. A ''lot'' harder than it sounds.

* In ''Deadalus'' aka. ''Robotica'', the Earth is united under the World Silent Security Systems, based on the space station Deadalus.
* The [[PlanetTerra Terran Republic]] in ''Videogame/PlanetSide'' controls effectively the entirety of human civilization. In the first game, the Republic is a [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny republic in name only]] that monitors ''everyone'', but has created a thousand years of peace. In the second game, the Republic was founded after a century of war devastated Earth and was putting humanity on the road to extinction, and is a benevolent socialist government, though TheRemnant we see was [[FascistsBedTime forced into drastic measures]] to try and curb insurrection on the [[LostColony crippled and lost colonization fleet heading to Auraxis]]. Subverted in both games where the miners, libertarians, and [[MegaCorp corporations]] break away to form the [[NGOSuperPower New Conglomerate]], while the scientists and tech worshippers split off to form the [[MachineCult Vanu Sovereignty]] while isolated on Auraxis.
* The VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries has the multinational [[UnitedNationsIsASuperpower Global Defense Initiative]] gradually transition from the UN's military task force in ''Tiberian Dawn'' to a de facto global government by the time of ''Tiberium Wars'', due to the ensuring breakdown of global order leaving GDI-controlled sectors [[ClosestThingWeGot more often than not]] the ''only'' functional authority left. Member states and national governments still exist, but in practice have all been subsumed into GDI.

* ''Webcomic/LovelyPeople'': The government is simply referred to as the World Council, implying that the entire world is ruled by a single entity.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', in the [[AlternateTimeline Ben 10,000 timeline]] it's shown that ConMan Argit, of all people, was elected "[[PresidentEvil President of Earth]]".

* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', this is what used to be for the Ghost Zone when the evil dictator Pariah Dark ruled it with an iron fist. Naturally, the citizens weren't happy and rebelled. He tried to get his kingdom back AND take over Earth, but he had BigDamnHeroes on the opposite end.
* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'': "Rocket Jimmy" seems to imply that [[CrapsackWorld Miseryville]] is its own planet, ruled by [[RoyallyScrewedUp the Heinous Family]] for centuries. Since the setting is implied to be {{Hell}}, it's not surprising.

* Averted, subverted and occasionally played straight in the HumongousMecha manga series ''Manga/TheFiveStarStories'', where out of the half-dozen or so habitable planets orbiting the titular stars, only one is unified under a single government and wars between the various countries on the other planets are extremely common. As national identity is a major theme in the series, the aforementioned planetary empires attempts to unite the others through military conquest later in the series... doesn't turn out so well. On the other hand, in the series' backstory, we find that the entire ''galaxy'' and then some was united in a mystical "Super Empire" in the distant past.

* ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'' subverts this in the long run. Planets by and large are run by only a single government, usually under either Empire or Alliance. But the sheer expanse of space (and not to mention human nature) means that humanity doesn't stay united for long.

* In The Creator/StrugatskyBrothers novels, this appears to be the natural consequence of achieving a certain degree of technological/social advancement. Earth and all the {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s Earthlings encounter have a One World Order, but the various {{Crapsack World}}s inhabited by humanoids have warring nations messing things up even further.

* In ''Literature/OutOfTheDark'', the Shongairi are confused that humanity managed to get to our current level of advancement without becoming this.

** Averted with Earth (and New Earth!) in the Cycle - there's still plenty of various national governments.

* Also averted in ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}},'' at least with the Kharaki/Hiigarans. While the species itself is unified, it's mentioned there are various, distinct clans and houses that serve as countries onto themselves.
** Further addressed in the ''VideoGame/HomeworldDesertsOfKharak'' prequel, where the Northern Coalition is, more or less, TheAlliance of the kiithid to the north of the Great Banded Desert, which takes up the majority of the surface of the planet. Not much is stated about the Southern kiithid, though. The primary conflict in the game is between the Coalition and the Gaalsien religious fanatics. Later on, you also have to fight Kiith Siidim, who betray the Coalition.
* More or less the goal in ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' games. The conquest victory would be an evil example, the diplomatic victory a benign case (although the U.N. does appoint you ruler over everything, including anyone still voting against you, so it can still overlap with the sinister examples). The cultural victory doesn't really imply an abolishment of nations, but more turning earth into a PlanetOfHats where the entire culture is like that of your country, so it comes close. The science victory might imply the formation of TheFederation when you travel to another star, but it seems more like telling the world "Screw you guys, I'm going to [[VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri Alpha Centauri"]].
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** The Unified Earth Government (and its main arm, the United Nations Space Command) is a mix of the United Nations and the American federal system. While individual countries, organizations, and cultures are still very much alive, the UEG/UNSC will not hesitate to use force to prevent its colonies from becoming independent, with several of its factions, like the Office of Naval Intelligence, tending to favor outright authoritarian methods of rule. That said, several human worlds do enjoy a good amount of autonomy (particularly in the aftermath of the chaos caused by the Covenant war), and that's not even counting the Insurrectionist-aligned ones who've managed to sever all ties to Earth's government.
** The member species of the former Covenant also tend to be aversions; the Elites and Brutes are each divided into a number of opposing factions and clans (several of which employ a wide variety of other species), and the Jackals are such anarchists that even WordOfGod refers to their central authorities as being merely "pseudo-governments". In fact, these decentralizing tendencies were already present even ''before'' the Covenant collapsed in the aftermath of the Great Schism.
* No one ever refers to the three-sided Strand War in ''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity Override'' as a civil war, despite the fact all three Strands belong to the same species. On the other side of the coin, the United Earth (which only came to be through AlienInvasion in the first place, so nothing natural about it) doesn't make any real claims to represent humanity as a whole, and is still working on establishing the institutions of a united government of Earth (for example, although there is a common parliament and cabinet, ''currencies'' are still separate and a subject of ongoing negotiation and planning).
* In the ''[[Videogame/{{X}} X-Universe]]'' series, most of the aliens are united under their own racial banner, but on the other hand, the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Split Dynasty]] is split up into dozens of bickering clans who fight for the right to rule, with military coups being fairly common. [[HumansAreDivided Humanity is the most fractured]], with two powerful factions that [[SpaceColdWar hate each others guts]] - the Argon Federation, a former LostColony which controls almost all human territory in the [[PortalNetwork X-Universe gate system]], and the [[HumanityIsAdvanced highly advanced]] Earth State, who control the entirety of the Sol system and have fingers reaching into their ''other'' LostColony, the Free State Of Solara. Minor factions like the Hatikvah Free League are also predominately human.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' there is a human faction where Earth is now this thanks to the UnitedNationsIsASuperpower trope.

* The ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' universe had one government controlling Earth and all colonies. There was a massive war between China and Russia/Europe/America and after 90 years a wave of revolts in Europe overthrew the current governments and formed the United Citizens' Federation, then the Americas did the same. Finally they decided to go to war with China (and anybody who was left) to create the peaceful loving government we know. [[http://starshiptroopers.wikia.com/wiki/United_Citizen_Federation Would you like to know more?]]

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is the number one utilizer. TheFederation is in fact a government for ''several'' species, and it's rare for there to be any diversity in alien culture except in service to the plot. (Benzites do not report a situation to their commanding officer until they have fully analyzed it, for example, preventing a Benzite crewmember from heading off a situation before it can escalate to a dramatic level.) In one episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Picard and Beverly even discuss whether or not having this is a prerequisite for Federation membership. (It isn't, technically, but apparently the question has never come up before.)

Note: If you happen to be in a Christian "End Times" story, and a single government controls the planet, watch out for [[TheAntichrist the dude]] with [[BeardOfEvil the goatee]]. Alternately, watch out for [[TheManBehindTheMan the guy standing BEHIND the dude with the goatee]]. If the "villains" are seeking a One World Order to remove the political divisions that enable international war, they may be [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]]. If the villains go even further than that, it could be an AssimilationPlot. Earth examples often overlap with UnitedNationsIsASuperpower.

** The Yehat empire consists of several warrior clans that often fight for supremacy. In ''VideoGame/StarControlIITheUrQuanMasters'', one can convince a group of Yehat dissidents who despise being Battle Thralls to start a new civil war.

* The "New World Order" conspiracy theory is played both ways in the ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'' campaign setting for ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' (well, unless your GM modifies things) -- the conspiracy theorists are right in that the UN intends to unite humanity, and they are right in that black helicopters are used by the UN elite forces. It's the other bits that are mistaken: It is suggested that the UN's leadership would prefer this to be a ''democratic'' state, which is one reason why it has taken so long, the UN have solid, sensible reasons for thinking a human unification to be a Good, or at least Necessary, Thing, and they have Christians amongst the top ranks.

* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', the Administrator is the [=CEO=] of two {{NGOSuperpower}}s, [=RED=] and [=BLU=], and a [[WarForFunAndProfit weapon supply company]], [=TFIndustries=]; all together, they give her complete control of the entire world.
** In many ways, this has become EarlyInstallmentWeirdness though. [=RED=] and [=BLU=] are now depicted as a pair of obsolete companies fighting over a resource that stopped being viable decades ago. The weapon and supply company was renamed to [=MannCo=]. While owning it is considered to be a highly desired, and the Administrator is still a class A manipulator, the world is clearly not under her control.

* In ''VideoGame/Stellaris'' there is a human faction where Earth is now this thanks to the UnitedNationsIsASuperpower trope.