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  2. List of fictional settlements - Wikipedia

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    Star Wars: 20th Century Fox: Mos Eisley is a setting in the fictional Star Wars universe. It is introduced as a spaceport [3] town on the planet Tatooine which Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Alec Guinness) describes as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy." It is the home of the Mos Eisley cantina and Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes. Coruscant

  3. List of fictional secret police and intelligence organizations

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    Top secret joint task force of the U. S. military and Federal Bureau of Investigation that investigates cases of a paranormal nature, including doppelgangers, mysterious disappearances and the Black and White Lodges. [2] [3] Twin Peaks: TV series and film Bureau of Grossology: Secret organization entrusted with the prevention of gross or ...

  4. Secret Wars - Wikipedia

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    Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, commonly known as Secret Wars, is a 12-issue American comic book crossover limited series published from May 1984 to April 1985 by Marvel Comics. The series was written by Jim Shooter , with art by Mike Zeck and Bob Layton .

  5. List of fictional countries set on Earth - Wikipedia

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    This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as ...

  6. List of fictional police states - Wikipedia

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    The Cardassian Union is a military dictatorship ruled over by the Central Command and a separate agency known as the Obsidian Order, which serves as both the secret police and intelligence agency of the Union. The Obsidian Order strictly polices the citizens of the Union, even going so far as to record the measurement of each indigent of what ...

  7. List of dystopian films - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of dystopian films. Dystopian societies appear in many speculative fiction works and are often found within the science fiction and fantasy genres. [ 1 ] Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization , [ 2 ] authoritarian governments, ruthless megacorporations , environmental disasters , [ 3 ] or other characteristics ...

  8. Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced his creation of Oceania. What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984. [1]

  9. List of fictional dictators - Wikipedia

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    Location Organization In Notes Ref Big Brother: Oceania: Ingsoc: Nineteen Eighty-Four: Supposedly the ruler of the totalitarian continents, although whether he truly exists or is simply a fictional personification of Ingsoc is unclear. Reference to the USSR. [1] President Coriolanus Snow: Panem (present day United States and Canada) The Capitol ...