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* {{Zig Zagged|Trope}} in ''Slow Train to Arcturus'', as while we see some of the societies leaving what can justly be caused repression it is hard to imagine any vaguely functioning benevolent government not wanting to see heavily armed white supremacists or North Korea's leadership cadre sent ''very'' far from Earth.
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* {{Zig Zagged|Trope}} in ''Slow Train to Arcturus'', in ''Literature/SlowTrainToArcturus'', as while we see some of the societies leaving what can justly be caused repression it is hard to imagine any vaguely functioning benevolent government not wanting to see heavily armed white supremacists or North Korea's leadership cadre sent ''very'' far from Earth.
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->'''Director Palin:''' One of the problems with handing over man's greatest enterprise over to a bunch of fanatics and lunatics is that most of them are fanatics and lunatics, not really the sort of people we should use for such a grand enterprise.//
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->'''Director Palin:''' One of the problems with handing over man's greatest enterprise over to a bunch of fanatics and lunatics is that most of them are fanatics and lunatics, not really the sort of people we should use for such a grand enterprise.//\\
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->''"Research and logic don't come into it. Voter sentiment does. Most people don't know, or have much contact with domestic animals these days. Patriarchy is politically incorrect, and their holier-than-thou attitude gets up the voters' noses. [[SpaceAmish They]] want our funds to [[ColonyShip get out of here]]? They're going to get them."''
-->--'''Representative Frank Nalinno of the sub-committee on system immigration support''', ''Literature/SlowTrainToArcuturus''
-->--'''Representative Frank Nalinno of the sub-committee on system immigration support''', ''Literature/SlowTrainToArcuturus''
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'''Chief Director Morpet:''' That's all very well, but the only people willing and ready to go are nutters by definition. Maybe we just have
-->--'''Representative Frank Nalinno
-->--''Literature/SlowTrainToArcuturus''
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->''"Research and logic don't come into it. Voter sentiment does. Most people don't know, or have much contact with domestic animals these days. Patriarchy is politically incorrect, and their holier-than-thou attitude gets up the voters' noses. [[SpaceAmish They]] want our funds to [[ColonyShip get out of here]]? They're going to get him."''
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->''"Research and logic don't come into it. Voter sentiment does. Most people don't know, or have much contact with domestic animals these days. Patriarchy is politically incorrect, and their holier-than-thou attitude gets up the voters' noses. [[SpaceAmish They]] want our funds to [[ColonyShip get out of here]]? They're going to get him.them."''
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->''"Research and logic don't come into it. Voter sentiment does. Most people don't know, or have much contact with domestic animals these days. Patriarchy is politically incorrect, and their holier-than-thou attitude gets up the voters' noses. [[SpaceAmish They]] want our funds to [[ColonyShip get out of here]]? They're going to get him."''
-->--'''Representative Frank Nalinno of the sub-committee on system immigration support''', ''Literature/SlowTrainToArcuturus''
-->--'''Representative Frank Nalinno of the sub-committee on system immigration support''', ''Literature/SlowTrainToArcuturus''
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* ''VideoGame/Starfield'' explores this trope via the Freestar Collective, whose members pride themselves on minimal government control over people compared to their more bureaucratic rival, the United Colonies. The realization of this ideal can be quite complicated. The laissez-faire economy encourages corporate investment disproportionate to the Collective's apparently smaller population... but some settlements are either utterly dominated by said corporations (Neon) or owned outright (Hopetown). Akila City presents a purer, frontier-style version of this trope in which independence and personal liberty are heralded, but those who can't make it end up in a slum or the belly of an Ashta.
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* ''VideoGame/Starfield'' explores this trope ''VideoGame/{{Starfield}}''.
** This theme is explored via the Freestar Collective, whose members pride themselves on minimal government control over people compared to their more bureaucratic rival, the United Colonies. The realization of this ideal can be quite complicated. The laissez-faire economy encourages corporate investment disproportionate to the Collective's apparently smaller population... but some settlements are either utterly dominated by said corporations (Neon) or owned outright (Hopetown). Akila City presents a purer, frontier-style version of this trope in which independence and personal liberty are heralded, but those who can't make it end up in a slum or the belly of an Ashta.
** This theme is explored via the Freestar Collective, whose members pride themselves on minimal government control over people compared to their more bureaucratic rival, the United Colonies. The realization of this ideal can be quite complicated. The laissez-faire economy encourages corporate investment disproportionate to the Collective's apparently smaller population... but some settlements are either utterly dominated by said corporations (Neon) or owned outright (Hopetown). Akila City presents a purer, frontier-style version of this trope in which independence and personal liberty are heralded, but those who can't make it end up in a slum or the belly of an Ashta.
