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** The pills are actually sugar pills, the enforcement is meant to enhance the pleciblo effect on people. This also has the merit of putting some trust in the government, as if people found out then they were doing no real harm.

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** The pills are actually sugar pills, the enforcement is meant to enhance the pleciblo placebo effect on people. This also has the merit of putting some trust in the government, as if people found out then they were doing no real harm.



** The goverment is actually corrupt and run by {{The Cartel}}

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** [[DrugsAreBad Anti sobriety PSAs are seen frequently]].
** The goverment government is actually corrupt and run by {{The Cartel}}
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** The goverment is actually corrupt and run by {{The Cartel}}
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???The government can't decide on whether these drugs should be illegal or mandatory.

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* '''Downplayed''': The government strongly urges its people to take vitamins.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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The government strongly urges its people to take vitamins.



* '''Parodied''': Although given to ''prevent'' a revolution, the Happy Pills are the ''cause'' of the revolution. Not because people are angered at being given mind-control drugs, but because everyone is doing the MushroomSamba and sees the dictator as a scary talking plant.

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Although given to ''prevent'' a revolution, the Happy Pills are the ''cause'' of the revolution. Not because people are angered at being given mind-control drugs, but because everyone is doing the MushroomSamba and sees the dictator as a scary talking plant.

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** The government strongly discourages certain people from [[NoMedicationForMe going off their meds.]]



** The pills prevent a mental breakdown do to a chemical in the air or water by negating the problem substance. The mental breakdowns are, if not downright lethal, capable of making one a threat to those around them. They would be able to stop taking them once the air or water gets purified.

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** The pills prevent a mental breakdown do due to a chemical in the air or water by negating the problem substance. The mental breakdowns are, if not downright lethal, capable of making one a threat to those around them. They would be able to stop taking them once the air or water gets purified.



* '''Inverted''': The government has banned Happy Pills and [[DrugsAreBad severely punishes those who sell them, buy them, possess them, or actually use them]].

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* '''Inverted''': The government has banned Happy Pills and [[DrugsAreBad severely punishes those who sell them, buy them, possess them, or or, God forbid, actually use ''use'' them]].


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** The use of Happy Pills is ''technically'' mandatory... but, in practice, the people who are supposed to enforce this are too high to care much about enforcing it.
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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???The Revolution succeeds in large part by exploiting guards and police who are too blissed out to actually catch anyone.

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* '''Played Straight''': The PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny forces people to take [[SideEffectsInclude Happy Pills]], perhaps by putting them in the drinking water.

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* '''Played Straight''': '''Straight''': The PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny forces people to take [[SideEffectsInclude Happy Pills]], perhaps by putting them in the drinking water.



* '''Inverted''': The government has banned Happy Pills and [[DrugsAreBad severely punishes those who sell them, buy them, possess them, or actually use them]].



* '''Inverted''': The government has banned Happy Pills and [[DrugsAreBad severely punishes those who sell them, buy them, possess them, or actually use them]].



* '''Deconstructed''': Leads to a lot of people being too strung out on God-knows-what to function at their best. Also, there could be undesirable side-effects.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Happy Pills are manufactured to the highest standards, so that they are 100% safe and healthy, and they don't impair normal day-to-day function or reasoning or creativity. But taking them is still mandatory.
** Happy Pills make efficient workers.
* '''Parodied''': Although given to ''prevent'' a revolution, the Happy Pills are the ''cause'' of the revolution. Not because people are angered at being given mind-control drugs, but because everyone is doing the MushroomSamba and sees the dictator as a scary talking plant.
* '''Lampshaded''': "There must be something in the water..."

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* '''Deconstructed''': Leads to a lot of people being too strung out on God-knows-what to function at their best. Also, there could be undesirable side-effects.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Happy Pills are manufactured to the highest standards, so that they are 100% safe and healthy, and they don't impair normal day-to-day function or reasoning or creativity. But taking them is still mandatory.
** Happy Pills make efficient workers.
* '''Parodied''': Although given to ''prevent'' a revolution, the Happy Pills are the ''cause'' of the revolution. Not because people are angered at being given mind-control drugs, but because everyone is doing the MushroomSamba and sees the dictator as a scary talking plant.
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* '''Lampshaded''': "There must be something in the water..."



* '''Exploited''': ???



* '''Deconstructed''': Leads to a lot of people being too strung out on God-knows-what to function at their best. Also, there could be undesirable side-effects.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Happy Pills are manufactured to the highest standards, so that they are 100% safe and healthy, and they don't impair normal day-to-day function or reasoning or creativity. But taking them is still mandatory.
** Happy Pills make efficient workers.



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* '''Basic Trope''': A government forces its people to take some kind of drug.

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* '''Basic Trope''': A government forces its people to take some kind of drug.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Happy Pills are manufactured to the highest standards, so that they are 100% safe and healthy, and they don't impair normal day-to-day function or reasoning or creativity. But taking them is still mandatory.

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* '''Reconstructed''': '''Reconstructed''':
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Happy Pills are manufactured to the highest standards, so that they are 100% safe and healthy, and they don't impair normal day-to-day function or reasoning or creativity. But taking them is still mandatory.

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* '''Downplayed''': The government strongly urges its people to take vitamins.



* '''Justified''': BreadAndCircuses

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* '''Justified''': BreadAndCircuses'''Justified''':



* '''Reconstructed''': Happy Pills are manufactured to the highest standards, so that they are 100% safe and healthy, and they don't impair normal day-to-day function or reasoning or creativity. And taking them is strictly voluntary.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Happy Pills are manufactured to the highest standards, so that they are 100% safe and healthy, and they don't impair normal day-to-day function or reasoning or creativity. And But taking them is strictly voluntary.still mandatory.
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** Happy Pills make efficient workers.

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* '''Justified''': Happy Pills are an important source of nutrients, and the government wants to protect its people's health.

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* '''Justified''': BreadAndCircuses
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Happy Pills are an important source of nutrients, and the government wants to protect its people's health.
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* '''Conversed''': "I wish I lived there."



* '''Played For Drama''': Happy Pills are being used to prevent a revolution.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Happy Pills are being used to prevent a revolution.revolution.
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** The pills are actually a cure to an otherwise crippling disease. The only real reason for enforcement is because the effects are so ghastly that if the disease takes full effect in public then everybody will be nauseous just by looking at it.
** The pills prevent a mental breakdown do to a chemical in the air or water by negating the problem substance. The mental breakdowns are, if not downright lethal, capable of making one a threat to those around them. They would be able to stop taking them once the air or water gets purified.
** The pills are actually sugar pills, the enforcement is meant to enhance the pleciblo effect on people. This also has the merit of putting some trust in the government, as if people found out then they were doing no real harm.

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