Politics in fiction
This is a list of fictional stories in which politics features as an important plot element. Passing mentions are omitted from this list.
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Written works
- The Republic (ca. 360 BCE) by Plato
- Panchatantra (ca. 200 BCE) by Vishnu Sarma
- Utopia (1516) by Thomas More
- The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys (1578) by Jan Kochanowski
- Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes
- Simplicius Simplicissimus (1668) by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
- The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
- Persian Letters (1721) by Montesquieu
- Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
- Candide (1759) by Voltaire
- The History and Adventures of an Atom (1769) by Tobias Smollett
- Fables and Parables (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki
- The Return of the Deputy (1790) by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
- The Partisan Leader (1836) by Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
- Barnaby Rudge (1841) by Charles Dickens
- The Betrothed (1842) by Alessandro Manzoni
- Coningsby (1844) by Benjamin Disraeli
- Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) by Benjamin Disraeli
- Tancred (1847) by Benjamin Disraeli
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
- Max Havelaar (1860) by Multatuli
- Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
- The Palliser novels (1864–79) by Anthony Trollope
- Felix Holt, the Radical (1866) by George Eliot
- War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
- The History of a Town (1870) by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
- Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils (1872) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Cathedral Clergy, also known as The Cathedral Folk (1872) by Nikolai Leskov
- The Way We Live Now (1875) by Anthony Trollope
- Honest John Vane (1875) by John William De Forest
- The Gilded Age (1876) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
- His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876) by Émile Zola
- Democracy: An American Novel (1880) by Henry Adams
- An Enemy of the People (1882), play by Henrik Ibsen
- An American Politician (1884) by F. Marion Crawford
- The Princess Casamassima (1886) by Henry James
- Prince Otto (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Bostonians (1886) by Henry James
- Noli Me Tangere (1887) by José Rizal
- Looking Backward (1888) by Edward Bellamy
- El filibusterismo (1891) by José Rizal
- The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope
- Pharaoh (1895) by Bolesław Prus
- Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
- NEQUA or The Problem of the Ages (1900) by Jack Adams, pseudonym for A.O. Grigsby and Mary P. Lowe
- The Riddle of the Sands (1903) by Erskine Childers
- Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad
- The Czar's Spy (1905) by William Le Queux
- The Four Just Men (1905) by Edgar Wallace
- King Leopold's Soliloquy (1905) by Mark Twain
- The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905) by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
- The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair
- Mother (1906) by Maxim Gorky
- The Secret Agent (1907) by Joseph Conrad
- The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London
- Under Western Eyes (1911) by Joseph Conrad
- Philip Dru: Administrator (1912) by Edward M. House
- Petersburg (1913/1922) by Andrei Bely
- Man of Straw (1914) by Heinrich Mann
- The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (1914) by Robert Tressell
- The Underdogs (1915) by Mariano Azuela
- The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) by John Buchan
- Herland (1915) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Fall of a Nation (1916) by Thomas Dixon, Jr.
- We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Bunt (The Revolt) (1922) by Władysław Reymont
- Metropolis (1925) by Thea von Harbou
- The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
- The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka
- The Shadow of the Caudillo (1929) by Martín Luis Guzmán
- Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
- The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (1932) by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
- Stamboul Train (1932) by Graham Greene
- Black Mischief (1932) by Evelyn Waugh
- The Forbidden Territory (1933) by Dennis Wheatley
- Antoine Bloye (1933) by Paul Nizan
- Fontamara (1933) by Ignazio Silone
- Burmese Days (1934) by George Orwell
- The House of the Four Winds (1935) by John Buchan
- It Can't Happen Here (1935) by Sinclair Lewis
- Bread and Wine (1936) by Ignazio Silone
- The Pretender (1936) by Lion Feuchtwanger
- U.S.A (1937) by John Dos Passos
- Alamut (1938) by Vladimir Bartol
- The Confidential Agent (1939) by Graham Greene
- Exit a Dictator (1939) by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- The Gladiators (1939) by Arthur Koestler
- Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler
- Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (1945) by George Orwell
- A Bell for Adano (1945) by John Hersey
- El Señor Presidente (1946) by Miguel Ángel Asturias
- All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
- Lonely Crusade (1947) by Chester Himes
- Walden Two (1948) by B. F. Skinner
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
- Dark Green, Bright Red (1950) by Gore Vidal
- Who Goes Home (1953) by Maurice Edelman
- In the Wet (1953) by Nevil Shute
- The Outsider (1953) by Richard Wright
- The Quiet American (1955) by Graham Greene
- The Shark and the Sardines (1956) by Juan José Arévalo
- The Last Hurrah (1956) by Edwin O'Connor
- Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand
- The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957) by John Steinbeck
- The Ugly American (1958) by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
- Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe
- Act of Mercy [U.S. title: Guns of Darkness] (1959) by Francis Clifford
- The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon
- Advise and Consent (1959) by Allen Drury
- The Best Man (1960) by Gore Vidal (play)
- Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller
- The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing
- Seven Days in May (1962) by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey
- Corridors of Power (1964) by C.P. Snow
- The Man (1964) by Irving Wallace
- Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert
- The Squares of the City (1965) by John Brunner
- All in the Family (1966) by Edwin O'Connor
- A Man of the People (1966) by Chinua Achebe
- The Comedians (1966) by Graham Greene
- The Late Bourgeois World (1966) by Nadine Gordimer
- Cancer Ward (1967) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Washington, D.C. (1967) by Gore Vidal
- Z (1969) by Vassilis Vassilikos
- The Godfather (1969) by Mario Puzo
- Being There (1971) by Jerzy Kosiński
- The Lorax (1971) by Dr. Seuss
- Burr (1973) by Gore Vidal
- Reasons of State (1974) by Alejo Carpentier
- I, the Supreme (1974) by Augusto Roa Bastos
- The Chocolate War (1974) by Robert Cormier
- Remember Ruben (1974) by Mongo Beti
- The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Guerrillas (1975) by V. S. Naipaul
- The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) by Edward Abbey
- Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976) by Manuel Puig
- 1876 (1976) by Gore Vidal
- A Flag For Sunrise (1977) by Robert Stone
- The Public Burning (1977) by Robert Coover
- The Shad Treatment (1977) by Garrett Epps
- The Dead Zone (1979) by Stephen King
- A Married Man (1979) by Piers Paul Read
- An Enemy of the State (1980) by F. Paul Wilson
- A Very British Coup (1982) by Chris Mullin
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1982–88) by Yoshiki Tanaka
- V for Vendetta (1982–88) by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
- The Day the Leader was Killed (1983) by Naguib Mahfouz
- The Floating Island (1983) by Garrett Epps
- The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) by Mario Vargas Llosa
- First Among Equals (1984) by Jeffrey Archer
- The Butter Battle Book (1984) by Dr. Seuss
- The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood
- Anthills of the Savannah (1987) by Chinua Achebe
- Favorite Son (1988) by Steve Sohmer
- House of Cards (1989) by Michael Dobbs
- The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Redemption (1990) by Tariq Ali
- The Fourth K (1990) by Mario Puzo
- Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon
- Patriots (1991) by Steve Sohmer
- To Play the King (1991) by Michael Dobbs
- Fatherland (1992) by Robert Harris
- The Final Cut (1992) by Michael Dobbs
- American Hero (1994) by Larry Beinhart
- Blindness (1995) by Jose Saramago
- Primary Colors (1996) by Joe Klein (as "Anonymous")
- Absolute Power (1996) by David Baldacci
- Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) by Giannina Braschi
- The Feast of the Goat (2000) by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Snow (2002) by Orhan Pamuk
- The Coast of Utopia (2002) by Tom Stoppard
- The Gospel According To Larry (2003) by Janet Tashjian
- The Successor (2003) by Ismail Kadare
- Seeing (2004) by José Saramago
- A Time to Run (2005) by Barbara Boxer
- The Ghost (2007) by Robert Harris
- American Savior (2008) by Roland Merullo
- The Best Laid Plans (2008) by Terry Fallis
- United States of Banana (2011) by Giannina Braschi
- What You Don't Know (2012) by David Belbin
- Faultline 49 (2012) by David Danson
- Occupied (2015) by Joss Sheldon
- The Little Voice (2016) by Joss Sheldon
- Money Power Love (2017) by Joss Sheldon
- In The Name Of Our Father (2018) by Olukorede Yishau
Film
Mike Judge, director of Idiocracy (2006)
- The Birth of a Nation (1915)
- America (1924)
- Strike (1925)
- The Dark Horse (1932)
- The Phantom President (1932)
- Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
- Judge Priest (1934)
- The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
- In Old Chicago (1938)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- The Great McGinty (1940)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Meet John Doe (1941)
- The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
- The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
- The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)
- State of the Union (1948)
- Alias Nick Beal (1949)
- All the King's Men (1949)
- A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
- Suddenly (1954)
- Nikodem Dyzma (1956)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- The Last Hurrah (1958)
- Advise and Consent (1962)
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- The Best Man (1964)
- Dr. Strangelove (1964)
- Point of Order (1964)
- Seven Days in May (1964)
- Pharaoh (1966)
- Z (1969)
- The Man (1972)
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Candidate (1972)
- The Parallax View (1974)
- The Godfather, Part II (1974)
- Being There (1979)
- Seeing Red (1983)
- Secret Honor (1984)
- Power (1986)
- The Godfather, Part III (1990)
- Bob Roberts (1992)
- The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
- Running Mates (1992)
- Batman Returns (1992)
- Dave (1993)
- With Honors (1994)
- The American President (1995)
- Absolute Power (1997)
- Murder at 1600 (1997)
- Air Force One (1997)
- The Peacemaker (1997)
- Wag the Dog (1997)
- Primary Colors (1998)
- The Siege (1998)
- Three Kings (1999)
- Election (1999)
- The Contender (2000)
- Thirteen Days (2000)
- Running Mates (2000)
- Ali G Indahouse (2002)
- The Quiet American (2002)
- Gangs of New York (2002)
- The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (2002)
- Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
- The Manchurian Candidate (2004 remake of the 1962 film)
- Thank You for Smoking (2005)
- V for Vendetta (2005)
- All the King's Men (2006)
- An Unreasonable Man (2006)
- Man of the Year (2006)
- Idiocracy (2006)
- The Lives of Others (2006)
- Even Almighty (2007)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- My Name Is Khan (2010)
- The Ides of March (2011)
- The Campaign (2012)
- The Dictator (2012)
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
- Captain America: Civil War (2016)
- The Purge: Election Year (2016)
- Joker (2019)
- Maanaadu (2021)
Television
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1962–63)
- Slattery's People (1964–65)
- The Prisoner (1967)
- Grandpa Goes to Washington (1978-1979)
- Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy (1980 Polish TV miniseries)
- Yes Minister (and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister) (1980–88)
- Edge of Darkness (1985)
- First Among Equals (1986)
- The New Statesman (1987–94)
- A Very British Coup (1988)
- Tanner '88 (1988)
- House of Cards (1990)
- Babylon 5 (1993)
- To Play the King (1993)
- The Politician's Wife (1995)
- The Final Cut (1995)
- Spin City (1996–2002)
- Nostromo (1997)
- The West Wing (1999-2006)
- Smallville (2001–11)
- 24 (2001–10)
- The Wire (2002–08)
- The Project (2002)
- Absolute Power (2003, 2005)
- Battlestar Galactica (2004)
- Commander-in-Chief (2005)
- The Thick of It (2005–12)
- Brotherhood (2006)
- Party Animals (BBC Two, 2007)
- Parks and Recreation (2009–15)
- The Good Wife (2009–16)
- Boardwalk Empire (2010–14)
- Downton Abbey (2010–15)
- Game of Thrones (2011–19)
- The Hour (2011–12)
- Boss (2011–12)
- Homeland (2011-)
- Scandal (2012–)
- Political Animals (2012)
- Veep (2012–19)
- House of Cards (US) (2012–18)
- Orange is the New Black (2013–)
- Wentworth (original Australian title: Wentworth Prison) (2013–)
- The Politician's Husband (2013)
- Rectify (2013–16)
- The Best Laid Plans (2014)
- The Red Road (2014–15)
- The Honourable Woman (2014)
- Madam Secretary (2014–)
- The Code (2014–)
- Utopia (Australian TV series, titled Dreamland elsewhere) (2014–)
- Gotham (2014–2019)
- American Crime (2015–17)
- The Same Sky (2016)
- BrainDead (2016)
- Designated Survivor (2016–)
- The Good Fight (2017–)
- Wildflower (2017-2018)
Musicals
- George Washington, Jr. (1906)
- Disraeli (1911)
- Hamilton (1917)
- Show Boat (1927)
- The Threepenny Opera (1928)
- Of Thee I Sing (1931)
- Miss Liberty (1949)
- South Pacific (1950)
- Call Me Madam (1950)
- The King and I (1952)
- The Pajama Game (1955)
- Candide (1957)
- West Side Story (1958)
- Fiorello! (1960)
- The Sound of Music (1960)
- Fiddler on the Roof (1965)
- Man of La Mancha (1966)
- Cabaret (1967)
- 1776 (1969)
- Hair (1969)
- Jesus Christ Superstar (1971)
- Shenandoah (1975)
- Chicago (1976)
- 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976)
- Evita (1980)
- Sarafina! (1988)
- The Who's Tommy (1993)
- Rent (1996)
- Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk (1996)
- Ragtime (1998)
- Parade (1998)
- Urinetown The Musical (2001)
- Wicked (2004)
- Assassins (2004)
- Caroline, or Change (2004)
- The Color Purple (2006)
- Grey Gardens (2007)
- The Scottsboro Boys (2010)
- Hamilton (2015)
Comic strips
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