List of fictional police states

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Fictional police states have featured in a number of media ranging from novels to films[1] to video games.

List of works featuring a police state

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Orwell's novel describes Britain under a totalitarian regime that continuously invokes (and helps to create) a perpetual war. This perpetual war is used as a pretext for subjecting the people to mass surveillance and invasive police searches. The novel has been described as "the definitive fictional treatment of a police state, which has also influenced contemporary usage of the term."[2]
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The elite of the capital city dominate, exploit and repress the rest of what is left of an impoverished United States.[3]
  • THX 1138 directed by George Lucas. This 1971 film echoed contemporary images of police beating up anti-Vietnam War protestors.[4]
  • We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. The novel is about the "One State" where people live in glass homes and have no privacy.[5]
  • "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury. A fascist state is inadvertently created by time travelers as a result of the Butterfly effect.
  • "Babylon 5" TV series, (1) Earth Alliance government under President Morgan Clark who ascended from being Vice President, after assassinating President Luis Santiago and other moderates, used hard line military units, Psi Corp, Nightwatch, & other factions to crush all dissent, which lead to civil war with the anti fascist military units, government officials, & civilians, (2) Centauri Republic under the rule of the insane Emperor Cartagia & the more extreme lords in the nobility, lead by Lord Refa, Cartagia rose to power with the death of his uncle Emperor Turhan & Prime Minister Malachi, assassinated, punished, slaughtered anyone that became obstacles to power

References

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