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We have met the Government Conspiracy, and it is us! The main characters are The Government (or at least the head of it) - in The White House, Whitehall, the Governor's mansion, or elsewhere. Variations range from Sitcom to Prime Time Soap with political trappings to heavy political drama Ripped from the Headlines.

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Examples

Comic Books

• Ex Machina
• Quai d'Orsay

Film

• In the Loop

Literature

• To a degree, Going Postal, and even more so Making Money.

Live Action TV

• Babylon 5 in its first season, before the big fantasy-influenced plot arcs got going.
• The (usually) less violent parts of Battlestar Galactica (Reimagined)
• Benson
• Borgen
• Commander In Chief
• Da Vincis City Hall
• Grass Roots
• The Hollowmen
• House of Cards
• House Rules
• Kings, centered around a fictional Deadly Decadent Court in a modern setting.
• The New Statesman
• No Job For A Lady
• Parks and Recreation—An odd one in that it focuses on small-town local government, with a bureaucrat as the central character—albeit a bureaucrat who is now a member of the City Council.
• Spin City
• The Thick of It
• Veep
• The West Wing
• The Wire (Partially)
• Yes Minister
  • Yes, Prime Minister

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Government In Exile

Politics Tropes

The Great Politics Mess-Up

Government Conspiracy

Fiction

A Hallmark Presentation

Government Conspiracy

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