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Due to ConservationOfDetail, any story (no matter the genre) where the government is not important is likely to be this. It is most common in children's television, [[JustifiedTrope because it's hard to explain to a child how a government runs]] without reprising the "Bill" song from ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock''.
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Due to ConservationOfDetail, any story (no matter the genre) where the government is not important is likely to be this. It is most common in children's television, [[JustifiedTrope because it's hard to explain to a child how a government runs]] runs without reprising the "Bill" song from ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock''.
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* In the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series, the government is a Monarch and a small Council of representatives. While the titular Heralds act as the Monarch's agents and {{Circuit Judge}}s, the centralization of power at the kingdom's capital means that local lords do much of the day-to-day government; a system not particularly discouraged by the kingdom's philosophy that "there is no One True Way."
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* More or less every named character in ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' works for one of the four Ministries. Except those four only cover war (Ministry of Peace/Minipax), rationing (Ministry of Plenty/Miniplen), propaganda (Ministry of Truth/Minitrue) and torture (Ministry of Love/Miniluv). Orwell doesn't mention who is in charge of the roads, fire department, public utilities and so on. Which is part of the point. For the most part, ''no one'' is running those things, which means they are in a constant state of decay. The Ministry of Plenty (rationing) probably ensures that basic utilities are kept running to the bare minimum, and the proles are probably relied upon to keep their own facilities running, but other than that everything is left to rot, and any large scale accidents or shortages are ignored and then covered up.
** A certain level of functioning infrastructure would be required for the Party to maintain its grip on power, e.g., electric utilities to power the viewscreens. Some unseen agency must be tending to that.
** A certain level of functioning infrastructure would be required for the Party to maintain its grip on power, e.g., electric utilities to power the viewscreens. Some unseen agency must be tending to that.
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* More or less every named character in ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' works for one of the four Ministries. Except those four only cover war (Ministry of Peace/Minipax), rationing (Ministry of Plenty/Miniplen), propaganda (Ministry of Truth/Minitrue) and torture (Ministry of Love/Miniluv). Orwell doesn't mention who is in charge of the roads, fire department, public utilities and so on. [[FascistButInefficient Which is part of the point. point.]] For the most part, ''no one'' is running those things, which means they are in a constant state of decay. The Ministry of Plenty (rationing) probably ensures that basic utilities are kept running to the bare minimum, and the proles are probably relied upon to keep their own facilities running, but other than that everything is left to rot, and any large scale accidents or shortages are ignored and then covered up.
** A certain level of functioning infrastructure would be required for the Party to maintain its grip on power, e.g., electric utilities to power the viewscreens. Someunseen unspecified agency - possibly Miniplen? - must be tending to that.
** A certain level of functioning infrastructure would be required for the Party to maintain its grip on power, e.g., electric utilities to power the viewscreens. Some
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** Also appears in the original [[ComicBook/{{WITCH}} comic books]]: Meridian (that is shown to not cover the whole planet) under Phobos plays this straight, as Phobos had absolutely no interest in doing anything (the only high ranking officials we ever see are Cedric and Vathek, who are shown to work as police chiefs, prison wardens, army commanders, and StateSec leaders, and this on top of trying to invade Earth, make Elyon believe the Guardians are evil and teach her how to use her powers), and on Arkhanta the government of the whole planet appears to be ''king Ari'' [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by him having an overpowered [[JackassGenie banshee]] at his orders and [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu tricked into obeying any of his orders at the best of her abilities]], allowing him to literally do anything his people need to live well. It's unknown if this is still the case after the banshee got free). Also {{Subverted}} by Meridian under Elyon: the government isn't too detailed, but Elyon mainly appears to serve as a figurehead and ultimate arbitrator, with her ministers ruling in her name.
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** Also appears in the original [[ComicBook/{{WITCH}} comic books]]: Meridian (that is shown to not cover the whole planet) under Phobos plays this straight, as Phobos had absolutely no interest in doing anything (the only high ranking officials we ever see are Cedric and Vathek, who are shown to work as police chiefs, prison wardens, army commanders, and StateSec leaders, and this on top of trying to invade Earth, make Elyon believe the Guardians are evil and teach her how to use her powers), and on Arkhanta the government of the whole planet appears to be ''king Ari'' Ari''; [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by him having an overpowered [[JackassGenie banshee]] at his orders and [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu tricked into obeying any of his orders at the best of her abilities]], allowing him to literally do anything his people need to live well. It's unknown if this is still the case after the banshee got free). Also {{Subverted}} by Meridian under Elyon: the government isn't too detailed, but Elyon mainly appears to serve as a figurehead and ultimate arbitrator, with her ministers ruling in her name.
