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'''Basic Trope Description''': A central law in a {{Dystopia}} that is nearly impossible to be kept.

* '''Straight''': The [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People's Republic]] Troperia outlawed being angry, and if you ever get angry, they send you to torture prison.
* '''Exaggerated''': Troperia outlawed even thinking about any negative emotion. Everyone who dares to think of unhappiness is immediately killed and then BarredFromTheAfterlife.
* '''Downplayed''': Troperia outlawed candy, and sends everyone found in possession of candy to minimum-security prison.
* '''Justified''': Troperia was established [[WarWasBeginning just after a great war]] that was caused by someone getting too angry.
* '''Inverted''': Everything is allowed in Troperia, and there are no laws at all.
* '''Subverted''': When Alice arrives in Troperia, she witnesses nobody ever getting angry. But Troperians just don't have reasons for that.
* '''Double Subverted''': She learns about the GovernmentDrugEnforcement over the tap water that keeps everyone calm.
* '''Enforced''': Troperia needs to be firmly established as a dystopia.
* '''Averted''': Troperia doesn't have any law that's impossible to keep.
* '''Zigzagged''': What exactly is forbidden changes on the whims of the dictator.
* '''Parodied''': Troperia outlawed pineapple pizza, and everyone is content with it - not out of fear of the punishments, but because nobody likes pineapple pizza anyway.
* '''Exploited''': Bob gets his rival for a promotion, Charlie, [[KlingonPromotion angry to get him arrested and therefore, rid of him]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "They may not get angry there? But is that even possible?"
* '''Discussed''': "They outlawed anger..." "Really? What next? [[NoSexAllowed Sex]]? [[LoveIsACrime Love]]? [[{{Thoughtcrime}} Thinking]]?
* '''Conversed''': "Never allowed to be angry. I couldn't keep it."
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