History PlayingWith / OppressiveStatesOfAmerica

** An Anarchist uses this to justify why any type of government is bad.

'''Basic Trope''': UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates is portrayed as a authoritarian PoliceState.

** The US is a OneNationUnderCopyright run by PeaceAndLoveIncorporated and their ObstructiveBureaucracy, and they have SocialDarwinist policies that serve the rich and oppress the poor.
* '''Inverted''': The United States becomes more and more libertarian, to the point the government is very limited in power, just a formality, and/or no longer exists.

* '''Defied''': PresidentEvil urges Congress to pass a bill that would make America into his trope. Not only does his bill get vetoed unanimously, but this causes massive outrage among the American populace, leading to his impeachment and conviction.

** The government takes away everyone's rights one at a time, as subtly as possible, so only the best-informed will notice.

* '''Implied''': Annie's trip to the US happened offscreen, but when she returns home to the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom, she says,

%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???

** The US is a OneNationUnderCopyright run by PeaceAndLoveIncorporated and their Obstructive Bureaucracy, and they have SocialDarwinist policies that serve the rich and oppress the poor.

** The US is a OneNationUnderCopyright run by PeaceAndLoveIncorporated and their {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s, and they have TheSocialDarwinist policies that serve the rich and oppress the poor.

* '''Invoked''': PresidentEvil [[FalseFlagOperation stages terrorist attacks]] in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and UsefulNotes/LosAngeles to scare members of Congress into writing and passing a law that will make America into this trope. ([[DamnedByFaintPraise At least]] [[TooSoon he leaves]] UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC alone.)

'''Basic Trope''': The US portrayed as a authoritarian PoliceState.

* '''Exaggerated''': The US is even more totalitarian than The PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny, and is a {{Democracy|IsBad}} InNameOnly that gives ThoseWackyNazis a run for their money.

* '''Parodied''': The United States aggressively enforces laws requiring citizens to do polka dances in chicken costumes at noon everyday. Failure is punishable by life imprisonment.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The United States have fallen into demagoguery and elected a PresidentEvil into the office... except that the US is as liberal as ever. Except that the Congress and the rest of the old governmental body was brutally executed and replaced with a totalitarian regime, though the citizens are largely unaffected and even get more purchasing power. Except that the US land was generously sold to hardworking and pliant citizens and immigrants while the US government secretly KillThePoor (and Unperson rebels and political dissidents). Also, possession of guns and robots, along with emigration, have been made punishable by death in United States.

* '''Lampshaded''': “Hey Bob! isn't it a wonderful day to worship our president?” “Of course! I don't want to disappear like Alice!"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''':

* '''Defied''': PresidentEvil tries to pass a bill that would make America into his trope. Not only does his bill get vetoed unanimously, but this also causes massive outrage among the American populace, leading to his impeachment.

** The government takes away everyone's rights one at a time, as subtly as possible so only the most well informed will notice.
** The government's increasingly oppressive regime ends up becoming more expensive and resource-consuming over time. [[DystopiaIsHard Eventually, it starts to have serious trouble sustaining itself]].

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* '''Exaggerated''': The US is even more totalitarian than UsefulNotes/NorthKorea, and is a {{Democracy|IsBad}} InNameOnly that gives UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire a run for their money.

* '''Exaggerated''': The US is even more totalitarian than UsefulNotes/NorthKorea, and is a {{Democracy|IsBad}} InNameOnly.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...by the police, anyway. Once they call the military in, everything starts going as they expected.

** The US is a OneNationUnderCopyright run by PeaceAndLoveIncorporated, and they have TheSocialDarwinist policies that serves the rich and oppresses the poor.

** A ConspiracyTheorist uses this trope to show people how evil and self-serving the government really is.