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* In ''ComicStrip/{{If}}'', Steve Bell drew Tory politicians of the Thatcher/Major era, such as Norman Tebbit, as animated skeletons or barely-human zombies; Michael Howard was a daylight-shunning vampire, and Michael Heseltine had something of the werewolf about him.

* Season 8 of ''{{Series/Game of Thrones}}'' reveals that this is the end goal for [[spoiler: the Night King and the White Walkers]].

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* In ''ComicStrip/{{If}}'', Steve Bell drew Tory politicians of the Thatcher/Major era, such as Norman Tebbit, as animated skeletons or barely-human zombies; Michael Howard was a daylight-shunning vampire, and Michael Heseltine had something of the werewolf about him.
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* Though they most likely are not, metaphorically, the Tories in the UK have very often been compared to vampires due to their [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment particular branch of policies and political ideas.]]

*** Lord Soth (death knight) in ''Sithicus''.
*** Vecna (lich) [formerly] in ''Cavitius''

** It's strongly hinted that the Immortal Emperor of Cathay (''Warhammer's'' China) is either a powerful but benevolent Vampire or Liche (it is known that the first vampire gave one of the heirs the elixer that makes you one to settle a debt millennia ago). There's so little detail given about the place that it could just as easily be an actual dragon.

** Nagash, the great necromancer, is literally trying to [[OmnicidalManiac kill everyone in the world]] and make them his undead puppets. Since he has taken up the mantle of "God of Undeath", he has 9 Mortarchs to reign as Kings under him (with two members from the aforementioned Von Carstein bloodline and at least one Tomb King Liche Priest). So far he has also successfully subjugated the Tomb King nation of Khemri and the Vampire Count's Sylvania.
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': Many of the kingdoms and empires in Shyish, the Realm of Death are ruled by liches, vampires, and necromancers, with undead and living citizens walking side by side in the streets. Nagash technically rules most of them indirectly, meaning that the Realm overall is ruled by an undead god overlord.

* Jack Skellington (a living skeleton) is described as "the pumpkin king" in ''WesternAnimation/NightmareBeforeChristmas'' and seems to have somewhat of a monarchical role in Halloweentown. However there's an elected mayor.

* The Skeleton Lords in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' are former hunters of the Undead serving the Old Iron King who contracted the curse themselves. WThey are now trying to rebuild the Iron King's kingdom with them as undead rulers lording over an undead people. [[BigBadWannabe It's not very impressive]], even before the [[PlayerCharacter Bearer of the Curse]] shows up to ruin their day.

** Over in the city-plane of Ravnica, there's both the Orzhov Syndicate (a CorruptChurch ruled by a council of ghosts) and the Golgari Swarm (which ended up with an undead shaman as its leader). The Golgari take care of Ravnica's farms, too -- they provide a very notable part of the food for the whole plane. While they have their bad apples (Savra is very ambitious, and the Sisters of Stone Death can be pretty callous when ticked off), they are for the most part extremely decent and friendly people, even welcoming the Elves of deep Shadow who were kicked out of Selesnya without question, simply because of their connection to black magic. Hell, the Golgari were one of the two guilds (the other being the Wojek offshoot of the Boros) who actually watched out for the people during the Decamillenial crisis, whereas all other guilds (as well as the Boros legion proper) were too busy with their power struggle nonsense.
** The Innistrad setting has towns ruled (read terrorized) by vampire nobility (though innistradi vampires aren't undead per se, but alive and aging at a glacial pace). On the other hand, there are also benevolent ghosts protecting some places.

* In ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'', Egypt becomes this in the early 1950s after [[CurseOfThePharaoh the resurrected mummy of Ramses XI]] and his undead servants enter the Egyptian Civil War and win. To everyone's surprise, they turn out to be {{reasonable authority figure}}s once they adapt to their new time, with the Egyptian population considering them an overall step up from the previous military dictatorship.

* In ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'', Egypt becomes this in the early 1950s after [[CurseOfThePharaoh the resurrected mummy of Ramses XI]] and his undead servants enter the Egyptian Civil War and win. To everyone's surprise, they turn out to be {{reasonable authority figure}}s once they adapt to their new time, being an overall step up from the previous military dictatorship.

* In ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'', Egypt becomes this in the early 1950s after [[CurseOfThePharaoh the resurrected mummy of Ramses XI]] and his undead servants enter the Egyptian Civil War and win. To everyone's surprise, their government turns out to be reasonably competent once they adapt to their new time, and even managed to be a step up from the previous military dictatorship.

* In ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'', Egypt becomes this in the early 1950s after [[CurseOfThePharaoh the resurrected Ramses XI]] takes over, as he and all of his servants who now make up the government are undead mummies. To everyone's surprise, they all turn out to be reasonably competent world leaders once they adapt to their new time, and even managed to be a step up from the previous military dictatorship.

* In ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'', Egypt becomes this after [[CurseOfThePharaoh the resurrected Ramses XI]] takes over, as aside from himself, all of his servants who now make up the government are also undead mummies.

* The autocratic empire of the Necromongers in ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' is governed by the "Holy Half-Dead" Lord Marshal Zhylaw. He's no longer merely a man after he visited the underverse, and can control souls. The rest of the Necros (except for the psychic Quasi-Dead) are actually living humans, just part of a crusading death cult.

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''[='s=] backstory, the city of Solitude turned into one when the "[[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Wolf Queen]]" Potema replaced her followers with [[CavalryOfTheDead undead minions]] after they deserted her. By the time of her death at the end of a protracted siege of Solitude, her court was made up of nothing but zombies, vampires, and [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Daedra]] that she summoned.

* Kain's empire in ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' (specifically shown in ''[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Soul Reaver]]'').

** Plain ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'', as well. Deyja and the Jademean Necromancers' Guild have both living and undead subjects, and can be reasoned and negotiated with, and aren't completely untrustworthy.
*** Deyja plays with it. It gives this impression during the events covered in [[VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic Shadow of Death and The Restoration of Eratha]], but when you get to visit it in ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic VII'', however, the current king is a living human male (who later [[spoiler: is usurped by a living elven male]]), and there is no sign of discontent from the king's status as being perfectly alive. The overall implication is that Deyja is a magocracy with feudal trappings ''transitioning'' towards becoming a necrocracy[[note]]Deyja was founded by necromancers when they were driven out from the wizards' country of Bracada, but not everyone wants to become a vampire, and the ritual to become a lich wasn't invented until ''much'' later and was still in active development when Deyja was destroyed along with the rest of the planet[[/note]].

It's the [[NotAMetaphor literal version]] of SkeletonGovernment. That is, a government staffed by actual dead or [[TheUndead undead:]] [[SoulJar liches]], [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], undead spirits and the like. The main variations are whether the subjects are also all or mostly undead, and whether the nation as a whole is good-aligned, evil-aligned, or neutral.

It's the [[NotAMetaphor literal version]] of SkeletonGovernment. That is, a government staffed by actual [[TheUndead undead:]] [[SoulJar liches]], [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], undead spirits and the like. The main variations are whether the subjects are also all or mostly undead, and whether the nation as a whole is good-aligned, evil-aligned, or neutral.

* '''Total Necrocracy''': Undead rulers with undead subjects.
* '''Rule of the Dead''': Undead rulers with living subjects.
* '''Half-And-Half''': Undead rulers with living subjects and undead subjects.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':

* The Necrocracy situation in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'' is played even straighter in the parody ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', where he is able to actually start ruling the Imperium.

It's the [[NotAMetaphor literal version]] of SkeletonGovernment. That is, a government staffed by actual [[TheUndead undead:]] [[SoulJar liches]], {{vampire}}s, undead spirits and the like. The main variations are whether the subjects are also all or mostly undead, and whether the nation as a whole is good-aligned, evil-aligned, or neutral.