democracy theme
The workings of a democracy are featured.
Examples
Babylon 5, bbf1x01, involved an election on earth as well as voting on the station itself.
15 total · 1 choice · 8 major · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) | choice | The story lead to the idea that the democracy and the senate were not up to the task of saving Naboo. |
| bbf1x01 | major | A hotly contested election was held for the Earth Alliance presidency. |
| blackmirror2x03 | major | A democratic system with voting and electioneering was featured. |
| ds92x24 | major | Bajorans were holding an election for the leader of their world government |
| futurama2x03 | major | An election for president of the world was being held. |
| movie: Earth II (1971) | major | The President of the United States announced that the three men and their ship will be the nucleus of a new nation, if enough Americans turn their lights on that night to show support for the project. The nation's population overwhelming supported the enterprise. In addition, Earth II had a direct democracy process known as Discussion and Decision. |
| movie: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) | major | The general story is that democracy falls to dictatorship due to ever spreading corruption and bureaucracy. |
| movie: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) | major | The story tells of a democracy that is reorganized into an empire led by an unelected Sith ruler. |
| movie: Zardoz (1974) | major | The Immortal society was founded on a form of real-time direct democracy. All political and judicial decisions were arrived at in this manner. |
| ahp6x21 | minor | In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock went on about voting booths and clean government. |