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* In the WhatIf story of ''CaptainAmerica'', the USA is turned to this because Cap awakened from the popsicle way later than expected. When Cap noticed what happened, he's ends up really furious and interrupts a parade done by his impostor and then chews out the whole country. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And it awesomely works]].
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* In the WhatIf story of ''CaptainAmerica'', the USA is turned to into this because Cap awakened from the popsicle way later than expected. When Cap noticed what happened, he's he ends up really furious and interrupts a parade done by his impostor and then chews out the whole country. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And it awesomely works]].
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* Being black during the [[CivilRightsMovement era of segregation]] in the US. In the South, this saw "Jim Crow" laws being passed in many states that restricted where black people could go, what jobs they could have, where they could live, etc. In the North, this was most often economic segregation, with black people being forced into ghettoes through discriminatory housing and real estate policies, and a thick glass ceiling preventing them from getting decent educations or careers. In certain parts of America, a black person who did or said the wrong thing (or was even accused or suspected of doing the wrong thing), especially to a white person, was pretty much doomed -- even if he or she was proclaimed innocent by the court, he or she was in very real danger of being [[VigilanteExecution lynched]] by an [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry white mob]].
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* Being black during the [[CivilRightsMovement era of segregation]] in the US. In the South, this saw "Jim Crow" laws being passed in many states that restricted where black people could go, what jobs they could have, where they could live, etc. In the North, this was most often economic segregation, with black people being forced into ghettoes through discriminatory housing and real estate policies, and a thick glass ceiling preventing them from getting decent educations or careers. And across America, black people and other minorities were [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town not even allowed to live in certain towns]]. In certain parts of America, a black person who did or said the wrong thing (or was even accused or suspected of doing the wrong thing), especially to a white person, was pretty much doomed -- even if he or she was proclaimed innocent by the court, he or she was in very real danger of being [[VigilanteExecution lynched]] by an [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry white mob]].
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, or perhaps an AlternateHistory gone wrong, the United States is no longer the shining beacon of democracy that it once was. Perhaps [[DividedStatesOfAmerica civil war]] and/or an [[InvadedStatesOfAmerica invasion has put the country into a dictatorship out of necessity]], [[MegaCorp corporate influence has undermined]] the democratic ideals the nation once held, a [[CorruptChurch theocratic religious movement]] has taken control of the government, or democracy has been suspended in order to fight off external or internal threats, real and/or imagined. Whatever the reason, the nation is only a democracy in name only, or sometimes, not even that if the regime is painfully honest.
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, or perhaps an AlternateHistory gone wrong, the United States is no longer the shining beacon of democracy that it once was. Perhaps [[DividedStatesOfAmerica civil war]] and/or an [[InvadedStatesOfAmerica invasion has put the country into a dictatorship out of necessity]], [[MegaCorp corporate influence has undermined]] the democratic ideals the nation once held, a [[CorruptChurch theocratic religious movement]] has taken control of the government, or democracy has been suspended in order to fight off external or internal threats, real and/or imagined. Whatever the reason, the nation is only a democracy in name only, name, or sometimes, not even that if the regime is painfully honest.
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* Being black during the [[CivilRightsMovement era of segregation]] in the US. In the South, this saw "Jim Crow" laws being passed in many states that restricted where black people could go, what jobs they could have, where they could live, etc. In the North, this was most often economic segregation, with black people being forced into ghettoes through discriminatory housing and real estate policies, and a thick glass ceiling preventing them from getting decent educations or careers. In certain parts of America, a black person who did or said the wrong thing (or was even accused or suspected of doing the wrong thing), especially to a white person, was pretty much doomed -- even if he or she was proclaimed innocent by the court, he or she was in very real danger of being [[VigilanteExecution lynched]] by an [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry white mobs]].mob]].
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* The Alien and Sedition Acts passed by President JohnAdams during the "Quasi-War" with Britain and France. This was a major factor in destroying Adams' presidency and getting ThomasJefferson elected President in 1800.
* Both sides during {{the American Civil War}} engaged in oppressive actions. On the Union side, Maryland was put under martial law to prevent it from seceding, and suspected sympathizers to the Confederacy could be arrested without trial or warning. In the Confederacy, meanwhile, Union sympathizers (especially in Appalachia) found themselves terrorized by the secessionist governments, to the point where northwestern Virginia (a solidly pro-Union area in a Confederate state) [[RebelliousRebel counter-seceded]] and formed the pro-Union state of West Virginia.
* Being black during the [[CivilRightsMovement era of segregation]] in the US. In the South, this saw "Jim Crow" laws being passed in many states that restricted where black people could go, what jobs they could have, where they could live, etc. In the North, this was most often economic segregation, with black people being forced into ghettoes through discriminatory housing and real estate policies, and a thick glass ceiling preventing them from getting decent educations or careers. In certain parts of America, a black person who did or said the wrong thing (or was even accused or suspected of doing the wrong thing), especially to a white person, was pretty much doomed -- even if he or she was proclaimed innocent by the court, he or she was in very real danger of being [[VigilanteExecution lynched]] by [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry white mobs]].
* The two {{Red Scare}}s during the early to middle part of the 20th century. Holding differing opinions from the American mainstream could land you in a lot of trouble. The most notable was [=McCarthyism=] during the '50s, which was effectively witch hunts for suspected Communists. Those caught in the hunts, even if they weren't Communists, could have their lives destroyed.
* Both sides during {{the American Civil War}} engaged in oppressive actions. On the Union side, Maryland was put under martial law to prevent it from seceding, and suspected sympathizers to the Confederacy could be arrested without trial or warning. In the Confederacy, meanwhile, Union sympathizers (especially in Appalachia) found themselves terrorized by the secessionist governments, to the point where northwestern Virginia (a solidly pro-Union area in a Confederate state) [[RebelliousRebel counter-seceded]] and formed the pro-Union state of West Virginia.
* Being black during the [[CivilRightsMovement era of segregation]] in the US. In the South, this saw "Jim Crow" laws being passed in many states that restricted where black people could go, what jobs they could have, where they could live, etc. In the North, this was most often economic segregation, with black people being forced into ghettoes through discriminatory housing and real estate policies, and a thick glass ceiling preventing them from getting decent educations or careers. In certain parts of America, a black person who did or said the wrong thing (or was even accused or suspected of doing the wrong thing), especially to a white person, was pretty much doomed -- even if he or she was proclaimed innocent by the court, he or she was in very real danger of being [[VigilanteExecution lynched]] by [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry white mobs]].
* The two {{Red Scare}}s during the early to middle part of the 20th century. Holding differing opinions from the American mainstream could land you in a lot of trouble. The most notable was [=McCarthyism=] during the '50s, which was effectively witch hunts for suspected Communists. Those caught in the hunts, even if they weren't Communists, could have their lives destroyed.
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* Being black during the [[CivilRightsMovement era of segregation]] in the US, which saw "Jim Crow" laws being passed in many states that restricted where black people could go, what jobs they could have, where they could live, etc. In certain parts of America, a black person who did the wrong thing (or was even accused or suspected of doing the wrong thing), especially to a white person, was pretty much doomed -- even if he or she was proclaimed innocent, he or she was in very real danger of being lynched.
* The RedScare during the early to middle part of the 20th century. Holding differing opinions from the American mainstream could land you in a lot of trouble. The most notable was [=McCarthyism=] during the 50s, which was effectively witch hunts for suspected Communists. Those caught in the hunts, even if they weren't Communists, could have their lives destroyed.
* During the AmericanCivilWar, suspected sympathizers to the Confederacy could be arrested with out trial or warning.
* The RedScare during the early to middle part of the 20th century. Holding differing opinions from the American mainstream could land you in a lot of trouble. The most notable was [=McCarthyism=] during the 50s, which was effectively witch hunts for suspected Communists. Those caught in the hunts, even if they weren't Communists, could have their lives destroyed.
* During the AmericanCivilWar, suspected sympathizers to the Confederacy could be arrested with out trial or warning.
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* The {{alternate history}} ''DecadesOfDarkness'' is about the development of the United States into this. The WarOf1812 spills into [[DividedStatesOfAmerica a much earlier civil war]] that sees every state north/east of Pennsylvania seceding and forming the Republic of New England. The remnant US, dominated by the [[DeepSouth southern states]] and their slave-holding elite, becomes an imperial power built upon white supremacy, expanding across Latin America and co-opting the local white elites while keeping the black, indio and mestizo masses in slavery and peonage. New England also goes through a period of authoritarianism in the 1920s and early '30s due to an economic crisis, fear of socialism spreading in Canada and Newfoundland, and a badly lost war with the US.
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* The {{alternate history}} ''DecadesOfDarkness'' is about the development of the United States into this. The WarOf1812 spills into [[DividedStatesOfAmerica a much earlier civil war]] that sees every state north/east of Pennsylvania seceding and forming the Republic of New England. The remnant US, dominated by the [[DeepSouth southern states]] and their slave-holding elite, becomes an imperial power built upon white supremacy, expanding across Latin America and co-opting the local white elites while keeping the black, indio and mestizo masses in slavery and peonage. New England also goes through a period of authoritarianism in fascism (known here as "vitalism") from the mid 1920s and through the early '30s due to an economic crisis, fear of socialism spreading in Canada and Newfoundland, and a badly lost war with the US.
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* The {{alternate history}} ''DecadesOfDarkness'' is about the development of the United States into this. The WarOf1812 spills into [[DividedStatesOfAmerica a much earlier civil war]] that sees every state north/east of Pennsylvania seceding and forming the Republic of New England. The remnant US, dominated by the [[DeepSouth southern states]] and their slave-holding elite, becomes an imperial power built upon white supremacy, expanding across Latin America and co-opting the local white elites while keeping the black, indio and mestizo masses in slavery and peonage. New England also goes through a period of authoritarianism in the 1920s and early '30s after badly losing a war with the US.
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A LaResistance of sorts will be featured usually, made up of fed-up citizens, and sometimes [[DefectorFromDecadence former or ]] [[HeelFaceTurn dissenting]] military or police personnel that are following their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign '''and domestic'''. Regardless, they'll be dismissed as terrorists by the American government, and will usually be used to justify the oppression.
How they are portrayed depends on the work. Some may have them as [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified plucky heroes that still believe in idealistic American beliefs]] and are willing to die to restore them, whereas if the scale goes further towards cynicism, may have them portrayed as [[WellIntentionedExtremist well meaning rebels that commit some atrocities to fight against the system]], or even [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized extremists]] that are not much better than the system they are fighting, such as [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Right Wing Militia Fanatics]] (who turned out to be ProperlyParanoid after all).
How they are portrayed depends on the work. Some may have them as [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified plucky heroes that still believe in idealistic American beliefs]] and are willing to die to restore them, whereas if the scale goes further towards cynicism, may have them portrayed as [[WellIntentionedExtremist well meaning rebels that commit some atrocities to fight against the system]], or even [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized extremists]] that are not much better than the system they are fighting, such as [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Right Wing Militia Fanatics]] (who turned out to be ProperlyParanoid after all).
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A LaResistance of sorts will be featured usually, made up of fed-up citizens, and sometimes [[DefectorFromDecadence former or ]] or]] [[HeelFaceTurn dissenting]] military or police personnel that are following their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign '''and domestic'''. Regardless, they'll be dismissed as terrorists by the American government, and will usually be used to justify the oppression.
How they are portrayed depends on the work. Some may have them as [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified plucky heroes that still believe in idealistic American beliefs]] and are willing to die to restore them, whereas if the scale goes further towards cynicism, may have them portrayed as [[WellIntentionedExtremist well meaning rebels that commit some atrocities to fight against the system]], or even[[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized extremists]] that are not much better than the system they are fighting, such as [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Right {{Right Wing Militia Fanatics]] Fanatic}}s (who turned out to be ProperlyParanoid after all).
all) who [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized are little better than the system they are fighting]].
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* The US in ''ShatteredUnion'' became this way under the Presidency of [[PresidentEvil David Jefferson Adams]], who put the West Coast put under martial law and sailed to a second term through a blatantly rigged election (because [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating there's no way he could've been re-elected]] under any other circumstances). The nuclear terrorist attack on WashingtonDC during his inauguration, and the ensuing decapitation of the federal government and the line of succession, triggers the [[DividedStatesOfAmerica Second American Civil War]].
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* ''DeusEx'': Freedoms have been curbed to fight off "excessive terrorism." After the Northwest war before the game starts, parts of the nation are still under martial law. [[spoiler: As the world continues to go to shit, the nation goes under full-fledged martial law in order to control rising civil unrest.]]
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* ''DeusEx'': ''VideoGame/DeusEx'': Freedoms have been curbed to fight off "excessive terrorism." After the Northwest war before the game starts, parts of the nation are still under martial law. [[spoiler: As the world continues to go to shit, the nation goes under full-fledged martial law in order to control rising civil unrest.]]
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* Being black during the [[CivilRightsMovement era of segregation]] in the US, which ranged from whites-only stores, drinking fountains and other features of major cities to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town not even being allowed to live in certain towns]]. It was even worse earlier, where a black person who did the wrong thing (or was even ''suspected'' of doing the wrong thing) in the wrong part of America was in very real danger of being lynched.
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* Being black during the [[CivilRightsMovement era of segregation]] in the US, which ranged from whites-only stores, drinking fountains and other features of major cities to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town not even saw "Jim Crow" laws being allowed to live passed in many states that restricted where black people could go, what jobs they could have, where they could live, etc. In certain towns]]. It was even worse earlier, where parts of America, a black person who did the wrong thing (or was even ''suspected'' accused or suspected of doing the wrong thing) in the wrong part of America thing), especially to a white person, was pretty much doomed -- even if he or she was proclaimed innocent, he or she was in very real danger of being lynched.
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, or perhaps an AlternateHistory gone wrong, the United States is no longer the shining beacon of democracy that it once was. Perhaps [[DividedStatesOfAmerica civil war]] and/or an [[InvadedStatesOfAmerica invasion has put the country into a dictatorship out of necessity]], [[MegaCorp corporate influence has undermined]] the democratic ideals the nation once held, a [[CorruptChurch theocratic religious movement]] has taken control of the government, or democracy has been suspended in order to fight off external or internal threats, real and/or imagined. Whatever the reason, the nation is only a democracy InNameOnly, or sometimes, not even that if the regime is painfully honest.
Expect to see FEMA, DHS agents, [[PoliceBrutality cops that are always clad in riot gear]], or even the [[YanksWithTanks military]] patrolling the streets, haressing innocent citizens for arbitrary crimes or by the virtue of simply "being there." Civil rights have been suspended for the "greater good," and political dissidents are shipped off to concentration camps, never to be seen again.
Expect to see FEMA, DHS agents, [[PoliceBrutality cops that are always clad in riot gear]], or even the [[YanksWithTanks military]] patrolling the streets, haressing innocent citizens for arbitrary crimes or by the virtue of simply "being there." Civil rights have been suspended for the "greater good," and political dissidents are shipped off to concentration camps, never to be seen again.
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, or perhaps an AlternateHistory gone wrong, the United States is no longer the shining beacon of democracy that it once was. Perhaps [[DividedStatesOfAmerica civil war]] and/or an [[InvadedStatesOfAmerica invasion has put the country into a dictatorship out of necessity]], [[MegaCorp corporate influence has undermined]] the democratic ideals the nation once held, a [[CorruptChurch theocratic religious movement]] has taken control of the government, or democracy has been suspended in order to fight off external or internal threats, real and/or imagined. Whatever the reason, the nation is only a democracy InNameOnly, in name only, or sometimes, not even that if the regime is painfully honest.
Expect to see FEMA, DHS agents, [[PoliceBrutality cops that are always clad in riot gear]], or even the [[YanksWithTanks military]] patrolling the streets,haressing harassing innocent citizens for arbitrary crimes or by the virtue of simply "being there." Civil rights have been suspended for the "greater good," and political dissidents are shipped off to concentration camps, never to be seen again.
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, or perhaps an AlternateHistory gone wrong, the United States is no longer the shining beacon of democracy that it once was. Perhaps [[DividedStatesOfAmerica civil war]] and/or an [[InvadedStatesOfAmerica invasion has put the country into a dictatorship out of necessity]], [[MegaCorp corporate influence has undermined]] the democratic ideals the nation once held, a [[CorruptChurch theocratic religious movement]] has taken control of the government, or democracy has been suspended in order to fight off external or internal threats, real and/or imagined. Whatever the reason, the nation is only a democracy in name only, InNameOnly, or sometimes, not even that if the regime is painfully honest.
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** Being black in any era of the US
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** Being blackUS, which ranged from whites-only stores, drinking fountains and other features of major cities to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town not even being allowed to live in any certain towns]]. It was even worse during the era of slavery before the US
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* The RedScare during the early to middle part of the 20th century. Holding differing opinions from the American mainstream could land you inalot a lot of trouble. The most notable was [=McCarthyism=], [=McCarthyism=] during the 50s, which was effectively witch hunts for suspected Communists. Those caught in the hunts, even if they weren't Communists, could have their lives destroyed.
** Being black
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* Being black during the [[CivilRightsMovement era of segregation segregation]] in the US.
* RedScare during the early to middle part of the 20th century. Holding differing opinions from the American mainstream could land you in alot of trouble. The most notable wasMcCarthyism, [=McCarthyism=], which was effectively witch hunts for suspected Communists. Those caught in the hunts, even if they weren't Communists, could have their lives destroyed.
* During the AmericanCivilWar, suspected sympathizers to the Confederacy could be arrested with out trial or warning.
* RedScare during the early to middle part of the 20th century. Holding differing opinions from the American mainstream could land you in alot of trouble. The most notable was
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, or perhaps an AlternateHistory gone wrong, the United States is no longer the shining beacon of democracy that it once was. Perhaps [[DividedStatesOfAmerica civil war]] and/or an [[InvadedStatesOfAmerica invasion has put the country into a dictatorship out of necessity, necessity]], [[MegaCorp corporate influence has undermined]] the democratic ideals the nation once held, a [[CorruptChurch theocratic religious movement]] has taken control of the government, or democracy has been suspended in order to fight off external or internal threats, real and/or imagined. Whatever the reason, the nation is only a democracy in name only, or sometimes, not even that if the regime is painfully honest.
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A LaResistance of sorts will be featured usually, made up of fed-up citizens, and sometimes former or [[HeelFaceTurn dissenting]] military or police personnel that are following their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign '''and domestic'''. Regardless, they'll be dismissed as terrorists by the American government, and will usually be used to justify the oppression.
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* In the first book of James Blish's ''CitiesInFlight'' series, America is rapidly becoming a totalitarian state ruled by the hereditary head of the FBI, Francis X. [[PunnyName MacHinery]].
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, or perhaps an AlternateHistory gone wrong, the United States is no longer the shining beacon of democracy that it once was. Perhaps [[DividedStatesOfAmerica civil war]] and/or an invasion has put the country into a dictatorship out of necessity, [[MegaCorp corporate influence has undermined]] the democratic ideals the nation once held, a [[CorruptChurch theocratic religious movement]] has taken control of the government, or democracy has been suspended in order to fight off external or internal threats, real and/or imagined. Whatever the reason, the nation is only a democracy in name only, or sometimes, not even that if the regime is painfully honest.
Expect to see FEMA, DHS agents, [[PoliceBrutality cops that are always clad in riot gear]], or even the [[YanksWithTanks military]] patrolling the streets, haressing innocent citizens for arbitrary crimes or by the virtue of simply "being there." Civil rights have been suspended for the "greater good," and political dissidents are shipped off to concentration camps, never to be seen again.
A LaResistance of sorts will be featured usually, made up of fed-up citizens, and sometimes former military personnel that is following their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign '''and domestic'''. Regardless, they'll be dismissed as terrorists by the American government, and will usually be used to justify the oppression.
How they are portrayed depends on the work. Some may have them as [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified plucky heroes that still believe in idealistic American beliefs]] and are willing to die to restore them, whereas if the scale goes further towards cynicism, may have them portrayed as [[WellIntentionedExtremist well meaning rebels that commit some atrocities to fight against the system]], or even [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized extremists]] that are not much better than the system they are fighting, such as [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Right Wing Militia Fanatics]] (which turned out to be ProperlyParanoid after all).
In a political work that is left-leaning, expect to see this trope overlap with EagleLand type 2. Right-leaning works will favor a CommieLand America.
Can overlap with FallenStatesOfAmerica, if the nation has become a dictatorship as a result of the fallen status, or is one of the reasons behind it, although it is possible for the US to still be a superpower, or at least still be a "first-world nation". DividedStatesOfAmerica is also a possible trope as well, as the remaining US government may be trying to keep what is left of the nation together at any means possible. InvadedStatesOfAmerica can count too when the nation goes dictatorial to protect against the enemy, or if the invaded sections are under a restrictive foreign government.
Compare to DayOfTheJackboot.
[[NoRealLifeExamplesPlease No Real Life Examples]] past the CivilRightsMovement of the 1960s.
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' the police are pretty corrupt and oppressive to begin with, carrying riot shields with SUBMIT printed on them and stomping of protestors' faces. When the Smiler takes over it gets worse, culminating in the City getting put under martial law.
*In the WhatIf story of ''CaptainAmerica'', the USA is turned to this because Cap awakened from the popsicle way later than expected. When Cap noticed what happened, he's ends up really furious and interrupts a parade done by his impostor and then chews out the whole country. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And it awesomely works]].
*''SupermanRedSon'' involves virtually the whole world becoming Communist thanks to Superman solving various economic problems. The US in an exception: its economy is on the verge of collapse and there is a mention of tanks in the streets of New York to suppress food riots. There's also a mention of a [[TakeThat President Friedman]].
[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* ''CSAConfederateStatesOfAmerica''
* ''TheRunningMan''. The U.S. has become intensely repressive, including (among other things) slaughtering people who are protesting not having enough food.
* ''EscapeFromNewYork''
* ''{{Watchmen}}'': Richard Nixon is closing in on his fifth term, crime is rampant all over the country and ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld are shown to be watching over all the streets.
*The corporation-as-government or MegaCorp in ''RoboCop''.
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In Sinclair Lewis' ''It Can't Happen Here'' a fascist government gets voted into office and proceeds to turn the country into an oppressive dictatorship.
* In RobertHeinlein's novella "If This Goes On-", the U.S. has become a theocratic police state.
* ''TheHandmaidsTale'': The fascist, theocratic Republic of Gilead is (one of?) the [[FallenStatesOfAmerica USA's successor states.]]
* In Allen Steele's ''{{Coyote}}'', the United States has degenerated into the fascist and theocratic "United Republic of America" where intellectual dissidents are rounded up with their families and carted off to forced re-education camps.
*Literature: strongly implied in ''{{Illuminatus}}'', and would naturally come up in any work of fiction where TheIlluminati (or similar) are the ones REALLY running the country.
[[AC:{{Live-Action TV}}]]
* {{Charmed}}'s 6th season has [[KidFromTheFuture Chris]] who comes back in time to help [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent an accident]] that causes [[spoiler: Wyatt]] to lose all sense of morality and take control via magic - it's not clear whether this is actually just America or [[CrapsackWorld the whole world]].
*''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': A smaller example featured The Sanctuary Districts, sections of cities walled off that housed the poor and unemployed. While their intent was to aid them, they later degraded into interment camps.
* The {{Series/Sliders}} visited an alternate-history America in which J Edgar Hoover had become president, leading within a few decades to a totalitarian US in which the government was woefully underfunded, organised criminals ran the economy, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the police wore kilts]].
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* The 80s action movie-inspired free game ''[[http://livresdelours.blogspot.com/p/in-english.html The Hard Way]]'' features an America much like the one from ''EscapeFromNewYork'', with MICOM ('''M'''ilitary-'''I'''ndustrial '''COM'''plex) and the Yuppies controlling everything, Manhattan being turned into a state penitentiary, political dissent being considered treason under the "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Freedom Act]]," HOMSEC goons blackbagging people at night and sending them to FEMA camps, Chinese-Americans being interned because of the current war against China, survivalists, death cults and racial supremacists thriving outside the big cities; and everyone with slave wages, potato chips and TV sets -- basically a corporate-fascist America nightmare. All this in the backdrop of a three-way conflict between the US, the Chinese and the Soviet Union for the last remaining natural resources, with the [[CrapsackWorld rest of the world not being much better than America]].
* Prior to 2056, in the ''{{Shadowrun}}'' game-setting, elections in the [=UCAS=] had been conducted via a "remote-vote" system. That year, it was revealed that this voting system had been rigged to ensure a reelection; the incumbent administration was ousted, followed by an immediate Special Presidential Election in 2057 to restore legitimate democracy and avert this trope.
[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
* JusticeLeague episode "A Better World" takes place in an AlternateUniverse where the Justice League has become the tyrannical Justice Lords after the death of the {{Flash}}, and the subsequent murder of Lex Luthor. The Justice Lords appear to have an iron grip on everything, even going so far as to lobotomize their enemies, and keeping them in a place that is decidedly ''not'' a CardboardPrison.
[[AC:{{Video Games}}]]
*''DeusEx'': Freedoms have been curbed to fight off "excessive terrorism." After the Northwest war before the game starts, parts of the nation are still under martial law. [[spoiler: As the world continues to go to shit, the nation goes under full-fledged martial law in order to control rising civil unrest.]]
* The {{Infocom}} game AMindForeverVoyaging shows the decline of the US from a democracy to a theocratic dictatorship over three decades. The player character is an AI who can see the future and must prevent the death of democracy.
* LiberalCrimeSquad begins with US either heading this way or already there (if you begin with nightmare mode on). [[BigBad The Conservatives]] are to blame, of course.
* The ''{{Fallout}}'' series. Before the war, the United States government had become increasingly paranoid and militaristic in the face of the threat posed by China and the resource shortages. They also signed off on the amazingly inhumane "vault" experiments. [[AfterTheEnd After the war]], the last remnants of the old government form the Enclave, a brutal paramilitary organization that's willing to cause the death of almost everyone in the world to achieve its goals.
* [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] in ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''. One of Pravin Lal's quotes references a painful lesson about the importance of [[HarsherInHindsight free flow of information]] learned by Americans in Earth's [[AfterTheEnd final century]].
* ''{{Homefront}}'': Overlaps with InvadedStatesOfAmerica. Any area controlled by Korea is under military rule, where US citizens are killed left and right. Even before the war, the US wasn't doing so hot in terms of freedom, as it slipped into FallenStatesOfAmerica territory.
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* The Japanese Internment during WorldWarII. 110,000 Japanese-American citizens were relocated to camps with little warning, only being able to take the clothes on their backs. Conditions in the camps were horrible, and many would commit suicide rather than suffer.
* Being black during the era of segregation in the US.
* RedScare during the early to middle part of the 20th century. Holding differing opinions from the American mainstream could land you in alot of trouble. The most notable was McCarthyism, which was effectively witch hunts for suspected Communists. Those caught in the hunts, even if they weren't Communists, could have their lives destroyed.
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, or perhaps an AlternateHistory gone wrong, the United States is no longer the shining beacon of democracy that it once was. Perhaps [[DividedStatesOfAmerica civil war]] and/or an invasion has put the country into a dictatorship out of necessity, [[MegaCorp corporate influence has undermined]] the democratic ideals the nation once held, a [[CorruptChurch theocratic religious movement]] has taken control of the government, or democracy has been suspended in order to fight off external or internal threats, real and/or imagined. Whatever the reason, the nation is only a democracy in name only, or sometimes, not even that if the regime is painfully honest.
Expect to see FEMA, DHS agents, [[PoliceBrutality cops that are always clad in riot gear]], or even the [[YanksWithTanks military]] patrolling the streets, haressing innocent citizens for arbitrary crimes or by the virtue of simply "being there." Civil rights have been suspended for the "greater good," and political dissidents are shipped off to concentration camps, never to be seen again.
A LaResistance of sorts will be featured usually, made up of fed-up citizens, and sometimes former military personnel that is following their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign '''and domestic'''. Regardless, they'll be dismissed as terrorists by the American government, and will usually be used to justify the oppression.
How they are portrayed depends on the work. Some may have them as [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified plucky heroes that still believe in idealistic American beliefs]] and are willing to die to restore them, whereas if the scale goes further towards cynicism, may have them portrayed as [[WellIntentionedExtremist well meaning rebels that commit some atrocities to fight against the system]], or even [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized extremists]] that are not much better than the system they are fighting, such as [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Right Wing Militia Fanatics]] (which turned out to be ProperlyParanoid after all).
In a political work that is left-leaning, expect to see this trope overlap with EagleLand type 2. Right-leaning works will favor a CommieLand America.
Can overlap with FallenStatesOfAmerica, if the nation has become a dictatorship as a result of the fallen status, or is one of the reasons behind it, although it is possible for the US to still be a superpower, or at least still be a "first-world nation". DividedStatesOfAmerica is also a possible trope as well, as the remaining US government may be trying to keep what is left of the nation together at any means possible. InvadedStatesOfAmerica can count too when the nation goes dictatorial to protect against the enemy, or if the invaded sections are under a restrictive foreign government.
Compare to DayOfTheJackboot.
[[NoRealLifeExamplesPlease No Real Life Examples]] past the CivilRightsMovement of the 1960s.
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[[AC:Comics]]
* In ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' the police are pretty corrupt and oppressive to begin with, carrying riot shields with SUBMIT printed on them and stomping of protestors' faces. When the Smiler takes over it gets worse, culminating in the City getting put under martial law.
*In the WhatIf story of ''CaptainAmerica'', the USA is turned to this because Cap awakened from the popsicle way later than expected. When Cap noticed what happened, he's ends up really furious and interrupts a parade done by his impostor and then chews out the whole country. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And it awesomely works]].
*''SupermanRedSon'' involves virtually the whole world becoming Communist thanks to Superman solving various economic problems. The US in an exception: its economy is on the verge of collapse and there is a mention of tanks in the streets of New York to suppress food riots. There's also a mention of a [[TakeThat President Friedman]].
[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* ''CSAConfederateStatesOfAmerica''
* ''TheRunningMan''. The U.S. has become intensely repressive, including (among other things) slaughtering people who are protesting not having enough food.
* ''EscapeFromNewYork''
* ''{{Watchmen}}'': Richard Nixon is closing in on his fifth term, crime is rampant all over the country and ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld are shown to be watching over all the streets.
*The corporation-as-government or MegaCorp in ''RoboCop''.
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In Sinclair Lewis' ''It Can't Happen Here'' a fascist government gets voted into office and proceeds to turn the country into an oppressive dictatorship.
* In RobertHeinlein's novella "If This Goes On-", the U.S. has become a theocratic police state.
* ''TheHandmaidsTale'': The fascist, theocratic Republic of Gilead is (one of?) the [[FallenStatesOfAmerica USA's successor states.]]
* In Allen Steele's ''{{Coyote}}'', the United States has degenerated into the fascist and theocratic "United Republic of America" where intellectual dissidents are rounded up with their families and carted off to forced re-education camps.
*Literature: strongly implied in ''{{Illuminatus}}'', and would naturally come up in any work of fiction where TheIlluminati (or similar) are the ones REALLY running the country.
[[AC:{{Live-Action TV}}]]
* {{Charmed}}'s 6th season has [[KidFromTheFuture Chris]] who comes back in time to help [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent an accident]] that causes [[spoiler: Wyatt]] to lose all sense of morality and take control via magic - it's not clear whether this is actually just America or [[CrapsackWorld the whole world]].
*''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': A smaller example featured The Sanctuary Districts, sections of cities walled off that housed the poor and unemployed. While their intent was to aid them, they later degraded into interment camps.
* The {{Series/Sliders}} visited an alternate-history America in which J Edgar Hoover had become president, leading within a few decades to a totalitarian US in which the government was woefully underfunded, organised criminals ran the economy, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the police wore kilts]].
[[AC:TabletopGames]]
* The 80s action movie-inspired free game ''[[http://livresdelours.blogspot.com/p/in-english.html The Hard Way]]'' features an America much like the one from ''EscapeFromNewYork'', with MICOM ('''M'''ilitary-'''I'''ndustrial '''COM'''plex) and the Yuppies controlling everything, Manhattan being turned into a state penitentiary, political dissent being considered treason under the "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Freedom Act]]," HOMSEC goons blackbagging people at night and sending them to FEMA camps, Chinese-Americans being interned because of the current war against China, survivalists, death cults and racial supremacists thriving outside the big cities; and everyone with slave wages, potato chips and TV sets -- basically a corporate-fascist America nightmare. All this in the backdrop of a three-way conflict between the US, the Chinese and the Soviet Union for the last remaining natural resources, with the [[CrapsackWorld rest of the world not being much better than America]].
* Prior to 2056, in the ''{{Shadowrun}}'' game-setting, elections in the [=UCAS=] had been conducted via a "remote-vote" system. That year, it was revealed that this voting system had been rigged to ensure a reelection; the incumbent administration was ousted, followed by an immediate Special Presidential Election in 2057 to restore legitimate democracy and avert this trope.
[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
* JusticeLeague episode "A Better World" takes place in an AlternateUniverse where the Justice League has become the tyrannical Justice Lords after the death of the {{Flash}}, and the subsequent murder of Lex Luthor. The Justice Lords appear to have an iron grip on everything, even going so far as to lobotomize their enemies, and keeping them in a place that is decidedly ''not'' a CardboardPrison.
[[AC:{{Video Games}}]]
*''DeusEx'': Freedoms have been curbed to fight off "excessive terrorism." After the Northwest war before the game starts, parts of the nation are still under martial law. [[spoiler: As the world continues to go to shit, the nation goes under full-fledged martial law in order to control rising civil unrest.]]
* The {{Infocom}} game AMindForeverVoyaging shows the decline of the US from a democracy to a theocratic dictatorship over three decades. The player character is an AI who can see the future and must prevent the death of democracy.
* LiberalCrimeSquad begins with US either heading this way or already there (if you begin with nightmare mode on). [[BigBad The Conservatives]] are to blame, of course.
* The ''{{Fallout}}'' series. Before the war, the United States government had become increasingly paranoid and militaristic in the face of the threat posed by China and the resource shortages. They also signed off on the amazingly inhumane "vault" experiments. [[AfterTheEnd After the war]], the last remnants of the old government form the Enclave, a brutal paramilitary organization that's willing to cause the death of almost everyone in the world to achieve its goals.
* [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] in ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''. One of Pravin Lal's quotes references a painful lesson about the importance of [[HarsherInHindsight free flow of information]] learned by Americans in Earth's [[AfterTheEnd final century]].
* ''{{Homefront}}'': Overlaps with InvadedStatesOfAmerica. Any area controlled by Korea is under military rule, where US citizens are killed left and right. Even before the war, the US wasn't doing so hot in terms of freedom, as it slipped into FallenStatesOfAmerica territory.
[[AC: Real Life]]
* The Japanese Internment during WorldWarII. 110,000 Japanese-American citizens were relocated to camps with little warning, only being able to take the clothes on their backs. Conditions in the camps were horrible, and many would commit suicide rather than suffer.
* Being black during the era of segregation in the US.
* RedScare during the early to middle part of the 20th century. Holding differing opinions from the American mainstream could land you in alot of trouble. The most notable was McCarthyism, which was effectively witch hunts for suspected Communists. Those caught in the hunts, even if they weren't Communists, could have their lives destroyed.
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