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* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: For all its tyranny, Arstotzka will punish rapists and murderers. Either they will be executed or suffer the same horrors of a communist prison. [[spoiler:Keep this in mind when you meet Dari Ludum and Simon Wens...]]

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* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all its tyranny, Arstotzka will punish rapists and murderers. Either they will be executed or suffer the same horrors of a communist prison. [[spoiler:Keep this in mind when you meet Dari Ludum and Simon Wens...]]
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* BribeBackfire: The love letter giver asks for his letter back, which takes a massive amount of chutzpah. You can detain them for it.

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* BribeBackfire: The love letter giver asks for his their letter back, which takes a massive amount of chutzpah. You can detain them for it.



* IJustWantToBeLoved: The depressed fellow will say this at the start of his inspection.

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* IJustWantToBeLoved: The depressed fellow will say this at the start of his their inspection.
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* HateSink: Ludum is an abusive human trafficker, only seeing woman as a useful tool to him, even shamelessly promoting his business through them. When seeing a note of one of his girls begging inspector for help, he immediately thinks of a way to punish her.
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* EpicFail: Passing over both of your passports that list completely different names at the border crossing is an ''unprecedented'' level of fuckupery.
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** If you shoot an innocent civilian, you will be sentenced to forced labor or death, depending on whether you ''merely'' tranquilized them or outright killed them. The same goes with the Man in Red, but you then get an additional sequence where EZIC informs you that while they've managed to keep your family safe, the new inspector isn't as cooperative and EZIC has no choice but to cease their activities.

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** If you shoot an innocent civilian, [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment you will be sentenced to forced labor or death, death]], depending on whether you ''merely'' tranquilized them or outright killed them. The same goes with the Man in Red, but you then get an additional sequence where EZIC informs you that while they've managed to keep your family safe, the new inspector isn't as cooperative and EZIC has no choice but to cease their activities.
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* NonStandardGameOver:
** If you touch the powder meant for Khaled, you die, and no ending sequence plays; you just go back to the main menu.
** If you shoot an innocent civilian, you will be sentenced to forced labor or death, depending on whether you ''merely'' tranquilized them or outright killed them. The same goes with the Man in Red, but you then get an additional sequence where EZIC informs you that while they've managed to keep your family safe, the new inspector isn't as cooperative and EZIC has no choice but to cease their activities.
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* PetTheDog: Perform well for the month in serving Arstotzka, and he'll recognize and reward your diligence by overlooking any recent suspicious activities.

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* PetTheDog: Perform well for the month in serving Arstotzka, and don't help EZIC in any way, and he'll recognize and reward your diligence by overlooking any recent suspicious activities.
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* MouthOfSauron: The hooded member (or members) of the order fits this role.

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* MouthOfSauron: The hooded member (or members) of the order fits this role.role, passing notes to the Inspector on what they want him to do.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can deny her only entry opportunity or even worse, let her through but ''fail to save Sergiu'', which leaves her alone and heartbroken in a foreign country.
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* PuttingOnTheReich: While most of the other Arstotzkan officials in the game wear vaguely Soviet Bloc-inspired garb like ''ushankas'', Vonel much more heavily resembles [[SecretPolice a high-ranking Gestapo officer]] with his dress trenchcoat and CommissarCap.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Even if he is a criminal, you can't help but find his antics amusing.
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* SenselessSacrifice: Shooting the Man in Red and sacrificing yourself for The Order solves nothing, as the replacement inspector isn't cooperative enough, forcing them to lay low for quite a while, leaving you to be executed for your crimes and your family getting taken to Obristan. Whether you helped EZIC or not, it's advised that you don't shoot the Man in Red and just continue work as usual.

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* SenselessSacrifice: Shooting the Man in Red and sacrificing yourself for The Order solves nothing, as the replacement inspector isn't cooperative enough, forcing them to lay low for quite a while, leaving you to be executed for your crimes and your family getting taken to Obristan. Whether you helped EZIC or not, it's advised that you don't shoot the Man in Red and just continue work as usual.
usual; EZIC will just change their plans and carry on.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: They may be a thinly-veiled pastiche of Eastern Bloc countries, but even they won't hesitate to arrest human traffickers and serial killers.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: EvenEvilHasStandards:
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They may be a thinly-veiled pastiche of Eastern Bloc countries, but even they won't hesitate to arrest human traffickers and serial killers.killers.
** For all the complaints that the Ministry of Admission gets for being an {{Obstructive Bureaucra|t}}cy, they do implement changes to policies in response to immigrant complaints. For example, they replace the Entry Permit and ID Supplement combo with an Access Permit that combines the functions of both so that immigrants don't have to present as much paperwork. When they "randomly" strip-search (read: profile) Kolechians in response to terrorist attacks and refuse Imporian immigrants as a petty response to trade sanctions, and subsequently generate complaints, they roll back both policies swiftly.
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** If you detain Shae, he presses false charges against you as revenge, again ending the game.

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** If you detain Shae, he presses false charges against you as revenge, again resulting in your arrest and ending the game.
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* NonStandardGameOver:
** He issues one to you by arresting you if you have unauthorized wall hangings when he visits, and then have them up again the next time he visits. Officially, the reason for the arrest is for defying direct orders.
** If you detain Shae, he presses false charges against you as revenge, again ending the game.

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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: If you hand him Kallo's passport and then approve his entry, you will not get a citation even though he is missing all other required documents, since you already got one citation for illegally confiscating the passport from the real Kordon Kallo.



* AntiFrustrationFeatures: If you confiscate Kallo's passport and give it to the impersonator, then approve the impersonator's entry, then you will not get a citation for letting the impersonator in even though he is missing all other required documents. This is due to already getting a citation for illegally confiscating Kallo's non-Arstotzkan passport.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: If you confiscate Kallo's passport and give it to the impersonator, then approve the impersonator's entry, then you will not get a citation for letting the impersonator in even though he is missing all other required documents. This is due to already getting a citation for illegally confiscating Kallo's non-Arstotzkan passport.


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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: If you confiscate Simon's passport and give it to him, then as long as you then re-confiscate the passport and give him a Passport Seizure Slip with an approval stamp, you will not get a citation even though he does not carry any required documents, since you already got one citation from illegally confiscating Simon's non-Arstotzkan passport.
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While disappointing, this isn't really an example of Schmuck Bait, since there isn't any negative consequence to letting him leave the way he came (e.g. a citation or a terrorist attack), the worst being one less detainee for the Detain Bonus.


* ShmuckBait: He says he'll explain why the hell he has two passports if you give them back to him, Of course, the second he has them, he'll just bolt out of the booth.

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Better trope than Wretched Hive. Failed State describes a whole failing country.


* FailedState: Implied. Sergiu outright says that as bad as things are in Arstotzka, they're ten times worse in Kolechia. The fact that you'll encounter so many Kolechians who are willing to die just to slight Arstotzka should tell you just how bad their living conditions are.



* WretchedHive: Implied. Sergiu outright says that as bad as things are in Arstotzka, they're ten times worse in Kolechia. The fact that you'll encounter so many Kolechians who are willing to die just to slight Arstotzka should tell you just how bad their living conditions are.

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* WretchedHive: Implied. Sergiu outright says that as bad as things are in Arstotzka, they're ten times worse in Kolechia. The fact that you'll encounter so many Kolechians who are willing to die just to slight Arstotzka should tell you just how bad their living conditions are.
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Explain the "dead" part in Dead Person Impersonation


* DeadPersonImpersonation: EZIC wants you to let the real Kordon Kallo in while also confiscating his passport, then use the confiscated passport for the impersonator they've sent to the checkpoint, where they can take control of the situation in their own terms.

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* DeadPersonImpersonation: EZIC wants you to let the real Kordon Kallo in while also confiscating his passport, then use the confiscated passport for the impersonator they've sent to the checkpoint, where they can take control of the situation in their own terms. Kordon Kallo's death is implied as seen below.

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