History Main / OneWorldOrder

** Similarly, in ''Literature/TheDispossessed'', Urras is divided into several countries, including ([[NominalImportance at minimum]]) the liberal democratic capitalist A-Io and the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny "socialist" totalitarian state]] Thu, which are fighting a proxy war in unstable [[BananaRepublic Benbilli]]. If this sounds like the ColdWar...well...[[FantasyCounterpartCulture it should]]. Urras, it should be noted, is a double planet, with its (relatively) barren partner Anarres having been settled by "Odonian" anarcho-syndicalists who, as such, have no state. Although [=LeGuin=] is herself a noted anarcho-syndicalist, Anarres averts MarySuetopia by having a legion of problems, including the development of [[ObstructiveBureaucrat entrenched bureaucracy]] among the "syndics."

* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' subverts this. While the Earth's united, there remains cultural and national diversity, with at least some present-day countries apparently surviving into the 2250s in some form. The Union Jack is still shown flying in London, suggesting that the UK made it as well. While in a bar scene involving Kirk, what looks like an American flag appears to be in the background. However, this may be in line with some [=TNG=] material which references a starship being built in [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp the Soviet Union]]; old Earth still countries exist, but are subsumed into a federal United Earth government.

* ''LegendOfGalacticHeroes'' subverts this in the long run. Planets by and large are run by only a single government, usually under either Empire or Alliance. But the sheer expanse of space (and not to mention human nature) means that humanity doesn't stay united for long. T

** Averted in ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'', the United Colonies Federation is merely more like the present United Nations, and the nations themselves are independent on each other. It is just that the country wins the Gundam fight will be for four years the leading nation in the Earth Sphere.

** A good aversion of ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale. Since a vast majority of star systems in the galaxy can ''(and do)'' support sentient life, there are simply far too many races and planets for all of them to be homogenized under one banner. Even TheEmpire at it's height controlled maybe 60-65% of the galaxy and had nowhere near enough soldiers or starships to make their presence known outside of space-faring systems, with many "mini-Empires" and planets that enjoyed ''de facto'' autonomy. Chances are good that hundreds, maybe thousands, of star systems within the Empire's borders watched it come and go without ever having known it was there.

** Even at a species level, truly unified government seems rare: the Turian Hierarchy is fairly centralised, but the Systems Alliance is a multinational organization that provides interstellar defense and diplomatic representation to Earth's actual nation states, the Salarian Union is a semi-feudal collection of independent matrilinear clans, and the Asari Republics barely qualify as a government at all (Their council member is the ''only'' permanent asari political office).

*** Quark also lampshades the issue in "The Way of the Warrior"...by comparing it to root beer.

**** There is also a different explanation; maybe it's not insidious assimilation. Perhaps you just begin to like root beer because it's an acquired taste...just like TheFederation. They're the most benevolent guys around, abounding with [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable authority figures]] (Section 31 notwithstanding) and all sorts of benefits for their citizens, tangible and intangible, while pretty much anywhere else such niceties are very hard to find. There's nothing wrong with choosing root beer when the alternatives are unpalatable and you don't want to go thirsty.

*** The Colonies may be united but they haven't been so for many years and they only did it because of the common threat presented by the Cylons. Before unification, it is mentioned the Colonies were very much at each others' throats. Which is why they built Cylon Centurion model robots in the first place. And old hatreds still run deep in whats left of the Fleet. It is occasionally mentioned the ships with mixed populations tend to be the most unruly.

* In Olaf Stapledon's ''Literature/LastAndFirstMen'', this happens ''several times'' over Man's eon-spanning FutureHistory. The first of these is an Americanized World State.

* The ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' universe had one government controlling Earth and all colonies. There was a massive war between China and Russia/Europe/America and after 90 years a wave of revolts in Europe overthrow the current governments and formed the United Citizens' Federation, then the Americas did the same. Finally they decided to go to war with China (and anybody who was left) to create the peaceful loving government we know. [[http://starshiptroopers.wikia.com/wiki/United_Citizen_Federation Do you want to know more?]]

* Common in the Gundam franchise

* ''LegendOfGalacticHeroes''subverts this in the long run. The sheer expanse of space (and not to mention human nature) make it nigh impossible to unite humanity for long.

* In David Wingrove's ''ChungKuo'', the entire world is ruled by the Seven and simply called the City, or Chung Kuo.

* The "New World Order" conspiracy theory is played both ways in the ''Dark•Matter'' campaign setting for ''D20Modern'' (well, unless your GM modifies things) -- the conspiracy theorists are right in that the UN intends to unite humanity, and they are right in that black helicopters are used by the UN elite forces. It's the other bits that are mistaken: It is suggested that the UN's leadership would prefer this to be a ''democratic'' state, which is one reason why it has taken so long, the UN have solid, sensible reasons for thinking a human unification to be a Good, or at least Necessary, Thing, and they have Christians amongst the top ranks.

* In the ''[[Videogame/{{X}} X-Universe]]'' series, most of the aliens are united under their own racial banner, but on the other hand, the [[ProudWarriorRace Split Dynasty]] is split up into dozens of bickering clans who fight for the right to rule, with military coups being fairly common. Humanity is the most fractured, with two powerful factions that [[SpaceColdWar hate each others guts]] - the Argon Federation, a former LostColony which controls almost all human territory in the [[PortalNetwork X-Universe gate system]], and the [[HumanityIsAdvanced highly advanced]] Earth State, who control the entirety of the Sol system and have fingers reaching into their ''other'' LostColony, the Free State Of Solara. Minor factions like the Hatikvah Free League are also predominately human.

* In ''DannyPhantom'', this is what used to be for the Ghost Zone when the evil dictator Pariah Dark ruled it with an iron fist. Naturally, the citizens weren't happy and rebelled. He tried to get his kingdom back AND take over Earth, but he had BigDamnHeroes on the opposite end.

** A particularly cynical version appears in LarryNiven's stories of Svetz the [[TimeTravel time traveler]]. The "[=SecGen=]" is apparently the absolute monarch of humanity, but the current [=SecGen=] (the product of [[RoyallyScrewedUp centuries of inbreeding]]) is a grown man with the mind of a small child. The actual control of the government rests with those who are most successful at [[DeadlyDecadentCourt bureaucratic infighting]] and at cajoling the [=SecGen=] into approving their decisions.

This trope is not necessarily unjustified. There are a number of conceivable differences in the way an alien race's history played out versus our own that could result in their world being more unified than ours. For example, if their starter population and/or landmass was smaller, or if one tribe conquered the others.

* Subverted in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. While the Earth's united, there remains cultural and national diversity, with at least some present-day countries apparently surviving into the 2250s. In fact, the Union Jack is still shown flying in London, suggesting that the UK made it as well. While in a bar scene involving Kirk, what looks like an American flag appears to be in the background.

* ''MassEffect'' plays with this a bit -- the codex notes that ''Earth'' is still controlled by several sovereign nations; however, anything outside the solar system is controlled by the Systems Alliance, a supranational body that controls human space business independent of any individual nation's interest, by necessity: the bickering nations couldn't effectively run an empire of that size.

* ''MassEffect'' both uses and subverts this trope. On the one hand, there is a galactic council that oversees issues relating to the entire galaxy. But the in-game literature also talks about how separate, smaller governments still exist. Also, they mention how each other species has as many varied languages, cultures, and religions as humans do.
** Even at a species level, truly unified government seems rare: the Turian Hierarchy is fairly centralised, but the Systems Alliance is a multinational organization that provides interstellar defense and diplomatic representation to Earth's actual nation states, the Salarian Union is a semi-feudal collection of independent matrilinear clans, and the Asari Republics barely qualify as a government at all (Their concil member is the ''only'' permanent asari political office).

* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' subverts this. While the Earth's united, there remains cultural and national diversity, with at least some present-day countries apparently surviving into the 2250s in some form. The Union Jack is still shown flying in London, suggesting that the UK made it as well. While in a bar scene involving Kirk, what looks like an American flag appears to be in the background. However, this may be in line with some [=TNG=] material which references a starship being built in [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp the Soviet Union]]; old Earth still countries exist, but are subsumed into a federal United Earth government.