History Main / MulticulturalAlienPlanet

* In ''ComicBook/TheTriganEmpire'', the planet-spanning Trigan Empire is made of individual kingdoms/countries with their own rulers. While the main body of the Trigan Empire is AncientGrome with sci-fi tech there are cultures that range from Mongolian wannabes to the Ottoman Empire to would-be ComicStrip/PrinceValiant and even a number of [[AlienInvasion alien invaders]] were forgiven and incorporated into the empire.

* ''Fanfic/RemembranceOfTheFallen'': Played subtly between a pair of Bajoran cadets at Starfleet Academy. When Kanril Eleya (Bajoran) is given the job of tutoring Tiana Lanstar (human) and Kojami Sobaru (Bajoran), she notices that the construction of Sobaru's given name indicates her being from Hathon Province. When they meet face to face in the next scene Sobaru in turn notices that Eleya's accent indicates her being from Kendra Province. Other ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' fanfics by Tropers/StarSword similarly refer to different Bajoran ethnicities, accents, and dialects.
* ''Fanfic/AChangedWorld'': Eleya and Gaarra explain that "Bajora'''n'''" is the species, while "Bajora" is an ethnic or cultural group that conquered the others (and apparently renamed the species and planet after themselves: ''Fanfic/BeatTheDrumsOfWar'' by the same author had a {{Precursor}} refer to Eleya as an Inshal'halan). Eleya is Kendran, while Gaarra is half-Dahkuri. The modern Bajoran language, ''Bajor'la'', is a simplified version of the Bajora tongue ''Bajor'ara'' that the Bajora taught to their conquests.
-->'''Gaarra:''' It's like... Well, like Lieutenant Park here being Korean.
* The fanfic web comic ''Webcomic/FiveYearsLater'' features many planets in its extended lore that are home to more than one sentient species of various tech levels and interaction types.

* ''Fanfic/FirstFlight'' divides [[VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram Kerbin]] into six "regionalities", loose alliances of nation-states who jointly elect two delegates each to the somewhat UN-like Council of Twelve Pillars, and divides their culture into the city dwelling Kerm-An and more pastoralist Kerm-Ol. One could also count [[spoiler:the Kerm trees]] as a culture unto themselves.

* Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs was a master of this trope; as his work falls in the PlanetaryRomance genre, the worlds visited by our heroes are always very culturally diverse. This goes for [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Mars]], [[Literature/{{Amtor}} Venus]], [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Jupiter]], [[Literature/TheMoonMaid the Moon]] and [[Literature/{{Pellucidar}} the secret world inside the hollow Earth]].
* In the ''Literature/ChanurNovels'' by Creator/CJCherryh, the hani homeworld is noted to have multiple countries and languages. The female lead is even gobsmacked to see that another hani crew brought one of the boys along- her country is a {{Matriarchy}} where male hani are treated like male lions ([[AuthorityInNameOnly put "in charge" to shut them up and soundly ignored by people who know what they're doing]]). Both the hani and mahendo’sat species have distinct ethnicities: a person’s region of origin is distinguishable by their size, coloring, and hair texture.
* On ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' there are multiple intelligent species and ethnic and cultural variants of the same. Apart from various types and cultures of humans (including werewolves, vampires and zombies), trolls (including gargoyles), dwarfs, pictsies, elfs, gods, anthropomorphic personifications, demons and what have you, there are also artificial beings like golems building a culture of their own. Dwarfs in particular can be divided into the Uberwald dwarfs, who still revere the knockermen (dwarfs who go into the deep mines to clear them of explosive gases by igniting it before anyone else enters, and who sometimes have mystic experiences while they're there) and the Ramtop dwarfs, who invented the Davy lamp and stopped worrying about that sort of thing. Within the Uberwald communities, the "deep-downers", who wear a knockerman's protective outfit at all times, especially if they're forced to go to the surface, seem to be a distinct subculture. Within the latest generation or so, dwarfs who move to Ankh-Morpork and integrate with humans, accepting such ideas as different genders (dwarfs are [[OneGenderRace all male by tradition]]), have been emerging as a third separate cultural group. There's also a small community in the mostly-human country of Llamedos who deal closely with humans (enough that intermarriage is fairly common) but haven't assimilated with them and are neutral between the main dwarf factions; the current Low King of all dwarves was selected from this group simply because the fewest people hated him.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/PreludeToFoundation'': Hari Seldon doesn't believe his psychohistory mathematics can be very useful. He'd need a model so diverse that it's essentially as complicated as the galaxy. [[spoiler:R. Daneel Olivaw]] arranges for him to run throughout the LayeredMetropolis of the CityPlanet Trantor so that he realizes that it fits the description. It has people from the three major ethnicities (Westerners, Southerners, and Easterners) and each of the hundreds of sectors are like a world of their own.

* In ''Literature/OutOfTheSilentPlanet'', the inhabitants of Malacandra come in three different species (not counting the energy beings), each with its own language. Furthermore, the sorns (giant feathered humanoids) come in at least two varieties - white (in the mountains) and red (in the deserts), and the hrossa (otter-people) come in at least three races -- black, silver, and crested. There might be more, but the viewpoint character wasn't on the planet long enough to tell, as he was vividly aware.
* Creator/JackVance often fills his worlds with different cultures. For example, in his ''Literature/PlanetOfAdventure'' series, the planet Tschai is full of different peoples (some descended from transplanted humans, some not), tribes, lands, and regimes. They all have their own cultures and political structures, ranging from the nomadic Emblem Men to the repressive underground Pneum, as well as those exiled Pneum who have been cast out of the underground and live on the surface.
* In ''Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures'' there are at multiple distinct nations on Foxen Prime, the feudal Mother Country is the largest and only nation with an off-world presence while the second largest is the parliamentary republic of Gerwart.

** The ''Literature/StarTrekStargazer'' novels reveal that the Gnalish, a race of LizardFolk of which the ''Stargazer'''s chief engineer Phigus Simenon is a member, have three separate subspecies, although they are able to interbreed (or, at least, fertilize the same eggs). Being of the weaker, "middle" subspecies, Simenon's subspecies has learned to be highly resourceful and wily, which helps when you're Picard's chief engineer.
** In the ''Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch'' novels, the Andorians and Bajorans, at least, demonstrate significant cultural differences depending on which region of their planets they originate on. In ''Worlds of Deep Space Nine: Andor'', the differences between Northern and Southern clans (to oversimplify a bit) are an important aspect of the plot. We also learn that "Bajora" originally referred to one nation on Bajor that over the civilization's ''very'' long history grew to encompass all Bajorans. The relaunch also explains the differences between ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]]'' and ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' Trills (ridges vs. spots, transporter allergy, etc.): they're just different ethnic groups among the Trill humanoids.
** In ''Literature/StarTrekArticlesOfTheFederation'', the funeral service for former president Jaresh-Inyo references his culture as "semtir"--his species is Grazerite, but apparently not all Grazerites have the same customs.

** In the ''Literature/{{Rihannsu}}'' series, the Romulans are described as having a number of variation on their overarching culture. Upon settlement the main division was between the mainstream culture, a warlike and relatively isolationist group from ch'Havran (Remus), and the Ship Clans, but by the 23rd century most differences on the Twin Worlds have lessened... And been replaced by ''dozens'' from the emigration on the new Romulan worlds, while descendants of the Ship Clans tend to be discriminated by the central authorities.

* In the soft sci-fi book ''Through Space To The Planets'', the planet has at least three separate governments in three different places.
* ''Literature/KrisLongknife'': Used repeatedly among human worlds in the series, usually in a manner [[FantasyCounterpartCulture allegorizing or directly replicating a political/ethnic/regional schism in American history]].
** Hikila in ''Defiant'' is split between the ethnic Polynesian original settlers, who settled tropical islands intending to reestablish their traditional way of life from Earth, and more numerous refugees from other planets whom they accepted during the Iteeche War, who meant to continue how they lived on their homeworlds and resent the islanders taxing them but not giving them a voice in government. [[spoiler:The planet's constitution ends up being written to accommodate the needs of both groups, with the Hikilan queen getting a veto on any measure she views as impinging on the islanders' culture.]]
** New Eden in ''Audacious'' is the first extrasolar planet humanity colonized, and has essentially three semiautonomous nations of respectively American, European, and Chinese descent on it (each of which has its own house in the planetary legislature and gets its own powerful vice president). People not descended from those original settlers don't get to vote and form a permanent underclass.
** In ''Undaunted'', Texarkana's original settlers made to replicate a rural rancher culture, with the most powerful ranchers named dukes. A later group of settlers built a few industrialized cities, which the ranchers view as a threat.
** Greenfeld planets, such as those Kris deals with in ''Redoubtable'', tend to have a largely white (mainly German) ruling class and a more diverse underclass. One book makes a point that Greenfeld troops would have difficulty working covertly on one of their own planets, where Kris's browner Wardhavenites wouldn't. (Kris herself is multiracial, drawn and described as a blonde white woman but stated to have significant Native American ancestry, which is where her surname comes from; her bodyguard[=/=]LoveInterest Jack Montoya is Latino).
* ''Literature/HumanxCommonwealth'':
** The ''Literature/{{Icerigger}}'' trilogy presents multiple cultures of Tran, from the nomadic ice-sea ravagers of the Horde to the feudal inhabitants of various rocky islands, with the occasional WackyWaysideTribe of religious fanatics tossed into the mix. [[spoiler: And then there's the Saiia, a relic population from a steam-warmed volcanic valley who are still adapted to Tran-ky-ky's millennial ''summers'', not its current winter).]]
** ''The Howling Stones'' takes place on planet Senisran, an ocean world with a myriad of archipelagos and scattered islands, each with its own culture and customs. The sheer number of nations represents a challenge to representatives of the Humanx Commonwealth and the [=AAnn=] Empire, each trying to forge diplomatic relations with as many islands as possible.
* ''Literature/ArrivalsFromTheDark'':
** The [[HumanAliens Kni'lina]] might be humanity's rival on the galactic stage, but they are not actually a unified race, or even the same exact species. Millennia ago, a global pandemic nearly wiped them out. Only the island populations survived by instituting strict quarantines and developing genetic cures that altered their genomes sufficiently to provide immunity to the disease. However, since each island worked independently, this resulted in slightly different genetic changes, effectively creating subspecies. While not very noticeable, the differences are substantial enough to disallow cross-breeding. The two largest clans (Ni and Poharas) dominate the Kni'lina society. The Poharas are sensitive, religious, and are ruled by an enlightened emperor, while the Ni are technocratic, atheistic, and militaristic. Each of the large clans has their own independent government, and the colonies tend to be settled only by members of a particular clan. During the hostilities with Earth, only the Ni and a number of smaller clans were actually at war with humanity. The Poharas remained neutral. [[spoiler:The novel that focuses on the Kni'lina does reveal that this state of affairs is deliberately maintained by both clans, as a significant chunk of the Kni'lina population are the Zinto, who are descendants of the survivors of the plague on the mainland. Being the unmodified root species, they are able to interbreed with any of the subspecies. However, as that would lead to the collapse of the current clan structure, the clans prohibit any union of a Zinto with a member of a clan under the pain of death. The Zinto are also treated as second-class citizens and are not permitted to form their own government.]]
** From a more primitive perspective, the planet Saikat is home to two primitive sentient races: the Terre and the Tazinto. The Terre are cave-dwelling vegetarian gatherers, largely peaceful. The Tazinto are warlike carnivores with a nomadic lifestyle, distrusting of outsiders, and a wolf-like hierarchy. The Tazinto are constantly moving into Terre territory, pushing the Terre to migrate further into a peninsula, while slaughtering any Terre camps they find. It's clear to the offworld observers that the Tazinto will eventually wipe out the Terre, and some are in favor of intervening to save the doomed species (some radical individuals are even advocating for the extermination of the Tazinto). When Ivar visits a Tazinto tribe and speaks with its chief, he learns, to his surprise, that the Tazinto already have a concept of a divine power (something thought impossible for such a primitive race). In fact, this faith is why they wish to wipe out the Terre, believing them to be too much like "real people", figuring that whatever deity hands out gifts might mistake the Terre for the Tazinto and bestow something to them instead of the correct recipients (this mainly stems from their observations that the Terre have double the lifespans of the Tazinto).
* Creator/MikhailAkhmanov's ''Dick Simon'' duology plays this straight with the most human-settled worlds, even though some of them are named after countries. For example, the planet Russia is actually home to Russia, Mongolia, Bulgaria, India, Armenia, Baltia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ethiopia, although Russia is dominant. The same applies to the planet China, which is also home to a number of other (presumably Asian) nations. This may be averted with smaller colonies, some of which are only settled by a single cultural group, but the Big Ten, which dominate interstellar politics, are all multicultural.
* ''Literature/TheLeftHandOfDarkness'': Gethen, inhabited by HumanAliens with a very strange form of reproduction, presents two main countries, Orgoreyn and Karhide. These have different languages, different religions, different customs and foods and different forms of government: Karhide is a monarchy with elements of feudalism, while Orgoreyn is a PoliceState. There are more lands, like the Antarctic continent of Perunter, but the protagonist and main narrator does not visit them.
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** According to various source books, the Tuskens and the Jawas used to be one species long ago, from back when Tatooine was an Earth-like world. The natives were conquered by the Rakata and then rebelled. The Rakata retaliated by bombing the planet into slag, well, glass. Over the years, the glass broke down into sand, and the surviving natives left the caves, having already started splitting into two races.
** ''Legends'' established that both the Mon Calamari and the Quarren come from different regions of the same planet, Dac, which is also home to the Whalodons (sapient whales) and the Moappa (telepathic jellyfish-like creatures with a HiveMind). The Mon Calamari dominate this shared homeworld culturally and politically, to the point that many off-worlders have no notion of other species living there and call the planet itself Mon Cal; this was a big part of what led to the Quarren and Moappa aiding the Confederacy against the Republic-loyalist Mon Calamari.
** As a rare and interesting inversion, in ''Legends'' the Neimodians from the prequels and the Duros are genetic cousins (the former being an offshoot of Duros colonists) who inhabit two different systems, while each have their own independent representation in the Republic, something that is otherwise only shown to be the case with Humans (who are the main species of at least several dozens of systems). They also have very different cultures, with the Duros famously being great shipbuilders, explorers and pilots who love telling stories, with "Traveler" being their preferred honorific. Neimodians are cowardly, grasping corrupt merchants. Also, the Duros parents raise their own children, while Neimodians leave this largely to the state. Both however have governments that are [[OneNationUnderCopyright run by their corporations]]. Traditionally, a Duros being called a Neimodian is a grave insult and they very much dislike any comparison.
** The Corellian System has a UsefulNotes/MeltingPot society with three different species (Human, Selonian, and Drall). On Corellia itself, Selonians have a large community of subterranean dens. In several ''Legends'' books, it's alluded that Selonian and Drall representatives are pushing for independent Senate representation, because their populations are usually represented by a Human from Corellia.
** The planet of Utapau is run by two different native species, the tall, humanoid Pau'ans and the short, turret-eyed Utai. Additionally, the Amani -- aliens resembling humanoid flatworms with short legs and long, slender arms -- also immigrated to Utapau at some point and live in primitive, tribal societies in its grasslands, separately from the high-tech Pau'an and Utai society in the planet's giant sinkholes.
** Endor, which in the main trilogy is only depicted as being home to the Ewoks, is shown to be home to an unusual number of species and societies in expanded universe material. This includes a number of true natives, such as the Ewoks (which also have groups that live in stilt or cliffside villages in addition to {{Treetop Town}}s), their lankier Dulok cousins, and the long-limbed Yuzzums, but there's also a very large number of species that were left stranded there due to a long history of interstellar shipwrecks.
** ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'': Though the usual PlanetOfHats trope is mostly {{played straight}} as usual, a couple partial exceptions exist.
*** Wookies don't just have a single language; rather, what Chewbacca speaks is the majority, but an obscure regional one is used as a code by the Wookie Resistance because Imperials don't understand it.
*** Togorians also have two separate cultures, divided by gender, with males living as hunters while their females stay apart in a civilized, urban society. Mated pairs only see each at certain points every year, with children raised by their mothers the first few years then any males go to live with their fathers. They find this perfectly comfortable, though Han and Bria (being Humans) naturally balk at the idea of living that way on Togoria. Within those groups however everyone still acts basically the same, so it's only partial.
** Adumar is a downplayed example -- there ''is'' a common Adumari culture, but for much of the book Cartannese culture is presented as being the same thing when it's actually just the specific subset of a single country that isn't a world government (albeit a single country that stands as Adumar's hyperpower), and Adumar as a whole has more variation within the framework (for example, Cartann stood out for just ''how'' obsessed they were with glory and honor through duels in person and in fighters).

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Remnant is a ConstructedWorld that blends all sorts of cultures together including French, Greek, and Chinese. Many characters have names from different languages (with the four leads Ruby Rose, her sister Yang Xiao Long, Weiss Schnee, and Blake Belladonna being prime examples) without any apparent correlation to their kingdom of origin, ethnic background, etc. The {{animesque}} {{mukokuseki}} art-style makes it impossible to tell the diference between races anyway, if Remnant even has racial differences besides "human or Faunus" (which is blurred by some Faunus being half-human).

** There was intended to be a race of CatPeople on Gallifrey called the Killer Cats of Gin-Seng. They were written for a cancelled serial called ''Killers of The Dark'' but went on to appear in ExpandedUniverse novels and audio stories.

* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'':

* In the ''Literature/ChanurNovels'' by Creator/CJCherryh, the hani homeworld is noted to have multiple countries and languages. The female lead is even gobsmacked to see that another hani crew brought one of the boys along- her country is a {{Matriarchy}} where male hani are treated like male lions ([[AuthorityInNameOnly put "in charge" to shut them up and soundly ignored by people who know what they're doing]]).

* In the ''Fanfic/{{Daemorphing}}'' series, all of the alien races have multiple cultures. For example:

* ''Fanfic/FirstFlight'' divides [[VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram Kerbin]] into six "regionalities", loose alliances of nation-states who jointly elect two delegates each to the somewhat UN-like Council of Twelve Pillars, and divides their culture into the city dwelling Kerm-An and more pastoralist Kerm-Ol. One could also count [[spoiler: the Kerm trees]] as a culture unto themselves.

* In ''Film/{{Predators}}'' (and by extension, the rest of the series), the Predators have different tribes who have been at war with one another. We see at least two. They also have two different subspecies, given their similar but distinct appearances in the film, with the majority being smaller, lighter-skinned phenotypes.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'': Three sapient species evolve on the moon during the middle Ultimocene, two of which possess a number of distinct internal groups:

** X'Nelli is home to a dozen species of Manzardills who all live together via a combination of shared religious beliefs in their creator god and their individual adaptations to specific environs of the planet. Along with running a planet-wide tourism industry, the Subter and Subtar species work together specifically in their underwater homes for exploration and navigation.

** X'Nelli is home to a dozen species of Mandrills who all live together via a combination of shared religious beliefs in their creator god and their individual adaptations to specific environs of the planet. Along with running a planet-wide tourism industry, the Subter and Subtar species work together specifically in their underwater homes for exploration and navigation.

** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' had more time to develop the Bajorans, so they wind up getting some of this. For one, we know that they have two religions: the majority worship the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Prophets]], but some worship the Pah-Wraiths, their {{Evil Counterpart}}s (though their followers don't interpret them that way). There's also at least one episode that deals with warring tribes who are described as living in a hardscrabble part of the planet, who seem to be at least semi-independent of the Bajoran government.

** ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' has several episodes in which a planet's resident species is divided into factions in conflict with each other. One episode has a planet with two intelligent species, only one of which wants to join the Federation.

*** This is the unofficial InUniverse explanation for Tuvok's skin color -- he's from a different stock of Vulcan than most of the ones we've seen. And Tuvok wasn't the first "minority" Vulcan we've seen. At least one of the Vulcan priests seen at the end of ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' highly resembles an Asian person from Earth (which makes sense, as the Vulcan in question is played by George Takei, who had apparently always wanted to wear the ears, but never had a chance up until then). And between them was a black ''Romulan''.

** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' shows Romulans of all sorts of ethnicities, with varying degrees of [[RubberForeheadAliens rubber foreheadedness]]. And that's not even getting into their culture's various cults, clans, religious orders, secret societies...

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}:'' Over the years and stories like ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles'', Kryptonians have been shown to be as racially diverse as humans. This first came up with [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Vathlo_Island Vathlo Island]], a thriving black society; while considered a bit [[ValuesDissonance iffy]] today, modern adaptations sometimes use "Vathlo" as the name of a continent on Krypton. Other continents on the planet include Lurvan, Urrika and Twenx.
* Marvel's Kree come in two skin-colours, pink and sky blue, the [[FantasticRacism latter looking down on the former]]. Their original home planet, Hala, is also home to the Cotati, a species of sentient trees, whom the Kree all but wiped out.
** ''Sakar'' had two distinctive people - the red-skinned Imperials and the grey-skinned Shadow People

Examples of this trope are species with a tendency to possess diverse and varied cultures. There may be cultural or societal divisions, and ambitious writers might even suggest different languages among members of the same species. However, given the tendency [[AliensSpeakingEnglish to skip alien languages altogether]], some will simply invoke AliensOfLondon and settle for giving alien species different accents or speech patterns. (Note: If the diversity is ''only'' in accents, the example belongs on AliensOfLondon, not here.)

* ''Film/BuckRogers'': While some of the Saturnians that Buck Rogers meets are white, many are Asian. The three judges are played by white actors, but the major character of Prince Tallen is played by Korean-American actor Philip Ahn. (This was pretty unusual for a film made in 1940.)

** Greenfeld planets, such as those Kris deals with in ''Redoubtable'', tend to have a largely white (mainly German) ruling class and a more diverse underclass. One book makes a point that Greenfeld troops would have difficulty working covertly on one of their own planets, where Kris's browner Wardhavenites wouldn't. (Kris herself is multiracial, drawn and described as a blonde white woman but stated to have significant Native American ancestry, which is where her surname comes from; her bodyguard[=/=]LoveInterest Jack Montoya is Latino.)

** The ''Literature/{{Icerigger}}'' trilogy presents multiple cultures of Tran, from the nomadic ice-sea ravagers of the Horde to the feudal inhabitants of various rocky islands, with the occasional WackyWaysideTribe of religious fanatics tossed into the mix. [[spoiler: And then there's the Saiia, a relic population from a steam-warmed volcanic valley who are still adapted to Tran-ky-ky's millennial ''summers'', not its current winter.)]]

*** In another TOS episode ("Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"), there is a war between two different ethnicities from the same planet. (The skin of one is black on the left side and white on the right side of the body, the other one's skin white on the left and black on the right.)

** In ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise,'' we meet the Xindi, which are five different species (formerly six, but a war wiped them out.) We also find out that in addition to the Andorians, Andoria has the Aenar (blind telepathic pacifist albino Andorians).

*** The [[LizardFolk Argonians]] are perhaps the most outright alien of the playable races. They are hit hardest by FantasticRacism, due to the ReptilesAreAbhorrent beliefs of the rest of Tamriel. They also come across, to outsiders at least, as {{CloudCuckoolander}}s in part because they tend to "live in the now", and their language has no past or future tense verbs. They worship and are connected to the Hist, [[WiseTree sentient]] and possibly {{Omniscient}} trees found in their native home of Black Marsh. Through the Hist, all Argonians are connected to a degree in a HiveMind[=-like=] fashion. (Though those who've lived outside of Black Marsh for extended times tend to become more individualistic and adapt to the other cultures of Tamriel quite well.)

* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', we finally get to see the planet Anur Transyl. In addition to Transylians (Frankenstrike and Dr. Viktor's species), it's also inhabited by Loboans (werewolves), Thep Khufans (mummies), and Ectonurites (Ghostfreak's species). On top of that, it ''used'' to have a vampire race called Vladats, until they were destroyed in a war with the Transylians, who got sick of being used for sources of slave labor and LifeEnergy. AllThereInTheManual previously gave each race a different planet of origin (all named Anur Something, so presumably in the same system.) but the show has them all coexisting on one world.

* The first two ''VideoGame/WarCraft'' games didn't give much detail of any culture, but appeared to have homogeneous cultures with orcs, trolls and their allies all on one side, and humans, elves, and others on the other. Warcraft 3 changed this, with multiple factions within each group - the orchish Horde was primarily split between those who wanted to go back to their [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy more-or-less peaceful shamanic roots]], those who were still under the influence of demons and wanted to conquer the world, and those who weren't under any influence but still wanted to fight everyone else because it was fun. Meanwhile the Alliance had splits between those who just wanted to defend themselves and rebuild, and those who wanted to dominate the world and punish the orcs for attacking, plus a previously unseen race of elves was revealed to be closely related to the earlier ones and didn't quite get along with anyone. By the time of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', practically every region has multiple factions fighting each other, and many of the major plot lines revolve around infighting and leadership battles within a faction rather than an external BigBad.

* ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'': Eayn, homeworld of the [[SpacePirates Jackals/Kig-Yar]], has various landmasses across its surface associated with distinct subspecies of its denizens, the Kig-Yar being noted as one of the more genetically diverse sapient species known to humanity or the Covenant. More recent installments expand upon the idea, often as a canonical explanation for ArtEvolution. The Covenant fought in ''VideoGame/Halo4'' and onward began on an isolated Sangheili colony, for instance, so the distinct Elites and the design of some of their armor and vehicles are meant to hail from such as opposed to the original trilogy's; and much of the redesigned weapons and vehicles of ''VideoGame/Halo5'' are said to be the result of Sangheili reclaiming old styles and technologies suppressed or diluted while part of the Covenant.

* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'': ** The first sapient creature to evolve on the planet is the [[MeaningfulName harmster]], a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil naturally sadistic and bloodthirsty species]] who [[LackOfEmpathy completely lack empathy]] and only live in social groups out of pragmatism. Despite this, they are split up into [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/655970700344033280/the-middle-glaciocene-115-million-years four different species with their own physical attributes]] and each species contains their own distinct cultural and ethnic groups.

** Skaro, the planet of the Daleks, has also been home, at various points of its history, to Kaleds (the precursor culture to the Daleks, a race of poets and scientists and prone to PuttingOnTheReich), Dals (originally proposed as the precursor culture to the Daleks but {{Retcon}}ned into a long-dead race that served as a cultural precedent for the Daleks -- supposedly teachers and philosophers wiped out by the Kaleds), and Thals (originally a warrior race but forced to take on a pacifistic, farming lifestyle to survive). All have their own distinctive cultures, all of which change depending on the era the story is set. It should be noted that both Skaro and Marinus were originally created and written about by Creator/TerryNation.

* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'': The first sapient creature to evolve on the planet is the [[MeaningfulName harmster]], a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil naturally sadistic and bloodthirsty species]] who [[LackOfEmpathy completely lack empathy]] and only live in social groups out of pragmatism. Despite this, they are split up into [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/655970700344033280/the-middle-glaciocene-115-million-years four different species with their own physical attributes]] and each species contains their own distinct cultural and ethnic groups.
** The [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/666221401102024704/the-middle-glaciocene-115-million-years-3000 savannah harmsters]] are the most widespread species with red fur and rounded features that are split into four different cultures. The [[EgomaniacHunter sport hunting]] Arcuterran Nomads. The {{Pyromaniac}}s who are sadistic even by harmster standards and use fire to hunt their prey, to the point where they practically worship it. The fanatical Blood Sun Zealots who are a Pyromaniac offshoot that worship the planet's [[BinarySuns red sun]] as a god and appease it by [[HumanSacrifice burning other harmsters alive]]. And the [[BornUnderTheSail Raft Raiders]] who prowl the oceans on small rafts where they subsist by hunting sea life or raiding other harmsters.
** The [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/666221404264529920/the-middle-glaciocene-115-million-years-3000 matriarch harmsters]] are the most divergent of the harmsters due to living on the isolated subcontinent of Mesoterra which resulted in females that are much larger and more aggressive than the males and come in three cultures. The [[BarbarianTribe Hamazons]] are savage jungle dwellers that have a [[ClashOfEvolutionaryLevels rivialry]] with the ripperoos (vicious, intelligent apex predators the harmsters originally evolved from) and try to exterminate them on sight. The Ripper Sisterhood are plains dwellers that worship the ripperoos as death gods and placate them with sacrifices. Finally, there are the Badland Bandits who live in the [[HadToBeSharp harsh Mesoterran deserts]] which left them with a ruthlessly pragmatic worldview focusing on day-to-day survival with no room for spiritualism.
** The [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/666221407495192576/the-middle-glaciocene-115-million-years-3000 Mountain Harmsters]] are the smallest, least advanced and [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch most peaceful]] of the harmsters due to starting out in the mountains which have sparse resources but also little competition. They're divided into the Mountain Cavehams which live a simple hunter-gatherer lifestyle in their mountain home and the Pastoral Herdsters live in the southern grasslands and are slightly more advanced and herd the pig-like bumbaas for meat.
** Lastly there are the [[https://tribbetherium.tumblr.com/post/666221411249061888/the-middle-glaciocene-115-million-years-3000 Tundra Harmsters]] that live in the [[GrimUpNorth cold northern tundras]]. This harsh location caused them to become the most innovative and technologically advanced species and they have long since been conquered into a single empire.

* The 1990s OVA ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'' (and its TV sequel) is an almost excessive example: though most of what we see of Roshtaria in El Hazard, as its name suggests, very [[ArabianNightsDays Arab-esque]], the [[HumanAliens human]] cast (excluding the Japanese from Earth) are ethnically varied and described as coming from other nations and lands (including DarkSkinnedRedhead Shayla Shayla, whose predecessor and mentor was a fair-skinned blonde, and the marginalized Phantom Tribe). That's before considering the [[BeePeople Bugrom]], an intelligent nonhuman species whom account for a dominant civilization.

* ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'': Eayn, homeworld of the [[SpacePirates Jackals/Kig-Yar]], has various landmasses across its surface associated with distinct subspecies of its denizens, the Kig-Yar being noted as one of the more genetically diverse sapient species known to humanity or the Covenant.
** More recent installments expand upon the idea, often as a canonical explanation for ArtEvolution. The Covenant fought in ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' and onward began on an isolated Sangheili colony, for instance, so the distinct Elites and the design of some of their armor and vehicles are meant to hail from such as opposed to the original trilogy's; and much of the redesigned weapons and vehicles of ''VideoGame/{{Halo 5}}'' are said to be the result of Sangheili reclaiming old styles and technologies suppressed or diluted while part of the Covenant.