List of fictional police states

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.

References

1. Young Adult Science Fiction - Charles William Sullivan - Google Books. Greenwood. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
2. The Encyclopedia of Police Science. CRC Press. p. 1004.
3. Todd McCarthy (March 15, 2012). "The Hunger Games: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
4. Annette Kuhn. Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema. Verso. p. 22.
5. Rodden, John (2002). George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation. Transaction Publisher. p. 204. ISBN 9780765808967. Zamyatin's We (1924), another terrifying police state utopia, whose citizens live without privacy in glass apartments.

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