A failed state is a Sub-Trope of Crapsack World where, for one reason or another, a nation's government has all but collapsed.

Sub-Trope of Different States of America. Also a Sub-Trope of Failed State. Super-Trope of Rocky Mountain Refuge, where the US is seen reduced to a rump ...

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Compare with Failed State, wherein a nation's government collapses to the point where it is unable to exercise executive control, run any government ...

... Failed State. When used together with Chaos Is Evil, the result is likely to be Bomb-Throwing Anarchists. This trope is rare/more likely to be averted in ...

The Failure Is the Only Option trope as used in popular culture. A series premise that allows the heroes or the villains to win minor battles along the way ...

Fallen States of America: The United States becomes a failed state. Fantasy Americana: The United States as a Standard Fantasy Setting. Fictional Province ...

Failed Rescue Attempt: You fail to rescue someone. Failing a Taxi: You fail to hail a taxi. Failsafe Failure: You fail to make a failsafe. Failure Gambit: You ... Artistic License · Fridge Logic · Hypocrite · Finagle's Law

A Critical Failure is the precise opposite: A finite, if sometimes suspiciously large, possibility that the attack will fail, be resisted, miss, or even ...