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* In ''[[FanFic/SovereignGFCOrigins Origins]]'', a ''MassEffect''[=/=]''StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]''[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, there's a PlotThread dealing with issues in the Home Galaxy Senate--mainly, an agency looking increasingly like StateSec is pushing the boundaries of [[ForScience acceptable experimentation]] while consolidating more and more power. A [[BadassBureaucrat Senator]] is trying to at least shine a light in, though so far there hasn't been much in the way of results.
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* The main events of "Fanfic/FlaihhsamSSpahkh" are something of a government procedural set in the Romulan Imperial Senate.

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* ''Literature/StarTrekArticlesOfTheFederation'' takes its name from the United Federation of Planets' version of the Constitution, and deals heavily with Federation internal politics and foreign policy, beginning with the inauguration of Nanietta Bacco as President. The author compared it to ''Franchise/StarTrek'' [[XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/TheWestWing''.


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* ''Series/MadamSecretary'' has the US Secretary of State, a former CIA officer named Elizabeth [=McCord=], as its protagonist, and deals with both foreign and domestic policy.
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* ''ExMachina''

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* ''ExMachina''''ComicBook/ExMachina''
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* ''Literature/ManticoreAscendant'', a prequel series to ''Honor Harrington'', continues the trend of Manticoran politics being at least as ruthless as interstellar warfare.
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* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': It's about politics... with some battles, dragons, zombies and other magic that occasionally show up to just make the politics much, much more complicated. Mainly, though: fascinatingly convoluted politics.

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* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': It's about politics... politics in the Seven Kingdoms... with some focus outside it when necessary, battles, dragons, zombies and other magic that occasionally show up to just make the politics much, much more complicated. Mainly, though: the fascinatingly convoluted politics.
politics of the Seven Kingdoms.



* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Yes, it's a [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy fantasy]]. Which spends an awful lot of time painstakingly demonstrating why living in a world misgoverned like that is a little too "interesting" for comfort. Saying you're watching it for the politics is actually believable in this instance.

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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Yes, it's a [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy fantasy]]. Which spends an awful lot of time painstakingly demonstrating why living in a world misgoverned land (mis)governed like that the [[DeadlyDecadentCourt Seven Kingdoms]] currently is being... is a little too "interesting" for comfort. Saying you're watching it for the politics is actually believable in this instance.

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* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': It's about politics... with some battles, dragons, zombies and other magic that occasionally show up to just make the politics much, much more complicated. Mainly, though: fascinatingly convoluted politics.


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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Yes, it's a [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy fantasy]]. Which spends an awful lot of time painstakingly demonstrating why living in a world misgoverned like that is a little too "interesting" for comfort. Saying you're watching it for the politics is actually believable in this instance.
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'' in its first season, before the big fantasy-influenced plot arcs got going.

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* ''Series/BabylonFive'' in its first season, before the big fantasy-influenced plot arcs got going. Though the politics remained extremely important even then.
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* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''--An odd one in that it focuses on small-town local government, with a bureaucrat as the central character--albeit a bureaucrat who is now a member of the City Council.

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* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''--An odd one in that it focuses on small-town local government, with a bureaucrat as the central character--albeit a bureaucrat who is now was for a time a member of the City Council.
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* ''HouseRules''

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* ''HouseRules''''Series/HouseRules''
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* ''Theatre/AllTheWay'' -- About UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson's crusade to pass the Civil Rights Act.

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We have met the GovernmentConspiracy, and it is us! The main characters ''are'' TheGovernment (or at least part of it) - in TheWhiteHouse, {{Whitehall}}, the Governor's mansion, a CovertGroup, or elsewhere. Variations range from SitCom to PrimeTimeSoap with political trappings to heavy political drama RippedFromTheHeadlines. A LawProcedural with government attorneys as the main protagonists is a subgenre.

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We have met the GovernmentConspiracy, and it is us! The main characters ''are'' TheGovernment (or at least part of it) - in TheWhiteHouse, {{Whitehall}}, the Governor's mansion, a CovertGroup, or bureaucrats elsewhere. Variations range from SitCom to PrimeTimeSoap with political trappings to heavy political drama RippedFromTheHeadlines. topical RippedFromTheHeadlines drama.

A LawProcedural with government attorneys as the main protagonists is a subgenre.subgenre. See SpyDrama for espionage themed stuff. See also PoliceProcedural and CopShow for law enforcement portrayals.


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* ''Series/{{JAG}}'', protagonists are government attorneys.
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* ''Film/{{Dave}}''

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* ''Film/{{Conspiracy}}'' is a ''really'' sinister version of this, about a meeting between a group of German government officials in 1942... planning the Holocaust.



* ''Film/{{Conspiracy}}'' is a ''really'' sinister version of this, about a meeting between a group of German government officials in 1942... planning the Holocaust.

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* ''Film/{{Conspiracy}}'' is a ''really'' sinister version of this, about a meeting between a group of German government officials in 1942... planning the Holocaust.''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington''
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* ''Film/{{Lincoln}}''

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* ''Film/{{Lincoln}}''''Film/{{Lincoln}}'': Abraham Lincoln's efforts to get the 13th Amendment passed and end slavery in the United States forever.
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* When the plot doesn't center on the military action, much of the plot of the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series busies itself with the intricate workings of the various governments involved, and gives the impression that the military commanders have a less stressful job than the politicians do.

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* When the plot doesn't center on the military action, much of the plot of the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series busies itself with the intricate workings of the various governments involved, and occasionally gives the impression that the military commanders have a less stressful job than the politicians do.
do (''[[AssInAmbassador Some]]'' of the politicians certainly think so, at least).
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* ''Series/AlphaHouse''
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* ''Film/ThirteenDays'' -- the Kennedy administration deals with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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* ''Film/AdviseAndConsent''
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* ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix''. Jockeying for votes: TheMusical!
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No, after secession it dumped any kind of actual politics in favour of dynastic fantasy IN SPACE


** And afterwords. During the temporary secession B5 was effectively a sovereign city-state.
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* ''Series/CommanderInChief''* ''[[DaVincisInquest Da Vinci's City Hall]]''

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* ''Film/{{Conspiracy}}'' is a ''really'' sinister version of this, about a meeting between a group of German government officials in 1942... planning the Holocaust.
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* ''Series/HouseOfCards''
* ''HouseOfCardsRemake''. Updated and now US set version.

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* ''Series/HouseOfCards''
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* ''HouseOfCardsRemake''. Updated ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS'' (updated and now US set version.US-set version)
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**And afterwords. During the temporary secession B5 was effectively a sovereign city-state.
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We have met the GovernmentConspiracy, and it is us! The main characters ''are'' TheGovernment (or at least part of it) - in TheWhiteHouse, {{Whitehall}}, the Governor's mansion, or elsewhere. Variations range from SitCom to PrimeTimeSoap with political trappings to heavy political drama RippedFromTheHeadlines. A LawProcedural with government attorneys as the main protagonists is a subgenre.

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We have met the GovernmentConspiracy, and it is us! The main characters ''are'' TheGovernment (or at least part of it) - in TheWhiteHouse, {{Whitehall}}, the Governor's mansion, a CovertGroup, or elsewhere. Variations range from SitCom to PrimeTimeSoap with political trappings to heavy political drama RippedFromTheHeadlines. A LawProcedural with government attorneys as the main protagonists is a subgenre.

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