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* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???
Jorjak is taken over by a group of [[TalkingAnimal talking ducks]] who force everyone to behave like a duck and converse by quacking the whole day.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???A FullCircleRevolution happens several times in the work.



* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???

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The work shall contain AnAesop why freedom and democracy are worth fighting for.
* '''Lampshaded''': ???"So now we are a dictatorship and we can do absolutely nothing about it. Like in the movies...well, I'm young, quite attractive, poor and distraught about this...does that mean this is my chance to become a hero?"



* '''Deconstructed''': Nobody likes a government they didn't elect themselves, a fairly large LaResistance gathers itself quickly, and nobody listens to their laws. They cannot keep themselves in power without giving liberties back to the people.
* '''Reconstructed''': Not many supporters doesn't necessarily mean not enough supporters. There are so many willing to snitch on people and to build up surveillance that everyone else just resignates over the fact of living under a tyranny.



* '''Played for Drama''': The new rulers are neo-nazis who plot to kill all BIPoC, queer and disabled people in the country, and Bob, a citizen of Jorjak, has a gay brother and a disabled sister for whose lives he has to fear now. Now he struggles to keep them all alive.

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* '''Played for Drama''': The new rulers are neo-nazis who plot to kill all BIPoC, colored, queer and disabled people in the country, and Bob, a citizen of Jorjak, has a gay brother and a disabled sister for whose lives he has to fear now. Now he struggles to keep them all alive.alive.
* '''Played for Horror''': The new government heavily relies on CrushingThePopulace strategies and doesn't shy away from feeding their captured enemies to an EldritchAbomination in public or hunting people for sport.

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* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': ???

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The Big Bad's supporters rise to some important positions in the government of Jorjak and manage to impose some oppressive laws, but are still forced to work after democratic principles and in a coalition with another party.
* '''Justified''': ???There has been an economic recession recently, and the Big Bad's forces, plotting to take over anyway, [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste used this to sow fear and mistrust towards the democratic government]] in the people of Jorjak.



* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???

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* '''Subverted''': ???
When Bob takes a stroll through his country's capital, he suddenly sees tanks in the streets and people in neo-nazi uniforms around the government buildings. He fears a coup, but it is in fact just a reenactment of a historical coup.
* '''Double Subverted''': ???What was [[HistoryRepeatsItself used to conceal a real coup]].



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** There are no nations politics within the storystory.



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* '''Played for Laughs''': A ultra-nationalist OmnicidalManiac which openly states hatred towards everyone and her love of genocide, easily coups Jorjak, due to the fact that [[PineappleRuinsPizza the Prime Minister was recently discovered eating pineapple pizza.]]

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* '''Invoked''': ???
Emperor Evulz and his forces attack the democratic government and force it to step down to install Emperor Evulz as a dictator instead.
* '''Exploited''': ???
Darren, a BlackShirt, immediately joins the forces of the new regime to stay out of jail for previous hate crimes towards minorities.
* '''Defied''': ???
Emperor Evulz tries to take over, but the army of Jorjak fights back with success.
* '''Discussed''': ???
Two citizens of the neighboring nation of Kerekia see the coup on the news and chat about the takeover in Jorjak, what they think this means for the future, the relationship of their countries, fear for the well-being of their best friend in Jorjak and regret having planned their next vacation there and discuss the option to take their best friend from Jorjak in for a time.
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"A tyranny? Oh no, this means trouble for poor Bob..."
* '''Played for Laughs''': A ultra-nationalist OmnicidalManiac which openly states hatred towards everyone and her love of genocide, easily coups Jorjak, due to the fact that [[PineappleRuinsPizza the Prime Minister was recently discovered eating pineapple pizza.]]]]
* '''Played for Drama''': The new rulers are neo-nazis who plot to kill all BIPoC, queer and disabled people in the country, and Bob, a citizen of Jorjak, has a gay brother and a disabled sister for whose lives he has to fear now. Now he struggles to keep them all alive.

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* '''Averted''': Gorsoxistan, the homeland of [[TokenWizard the Magical Craig]], keeps the same regime throughout the story.

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* '''Averted''': Gorsoxistan, '''Averted''':
**Gorsoxistan,
the homeland of [[TokenWizard the Magical Craig]], keeps the same regime throughout the story.story.
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* '''Inverted''': The [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People's republic]] of Mersecia, an Authoritarian dictatorship which the homeland of Alice, is couped by LaResistance, and a democratic republic is established

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* '''Inverted''': The [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People's republic]] of Mersecia, an Authoritarian dictatorship which is the homeland of Alice, is couped by LaResistance, and a democratic republic is established



* '''Averted''': ???

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* '''Averted''': ???Gorsoxistan, the homeland of [[TokenWizard the Magical Craig]], keeps the same regime throughout the story.
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'''Basic Trope''': The good guys' nation is successfully taken over by an evil dictatorship
* '''Straight''': Jorjak, a constitutional monarchy, and homeland of TheHero Bob, gets couped by the BigBad (or some other evil) and establishs an evil dictatorship.
* '''Exaggerated''': The Utopian kingdom of Jorjak, a Utopian nation where [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil evil and badness physically is impossible]], aswell as the Heroic Bob's homeland, get's couped by the BigBad and becomes a Dystopian nightmare
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* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': The [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People's republic]] of Mersecia, an Authoritarian dictatorship which the homeland of Alice, is couped by LaResistance, and a democratic republic is established
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* '''Averted''': ???
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* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Played for Laughs''': A ultra-nationalist OmnicidalManiac which openly states hatred towards everyone and her love of genocide, easily coups Jorjak, due to the fact that [[PineappleRuinsPizza the Prime Minister was recently discovered eating pineapple pizza.]]

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