Often run by an Emperor Scientist who likes to produce Designer Babies and force everyone to wear identical pajamas.
This little plot device is a prime source of Paranoia Fuel for innocent minds. It nearly always takes place in a dystopian future, or at best a World Half Full where the outside world really is that bad, or a world where the people are brought up to believe the world is untenable outside, in order to control them. This may cause the members of the shadowy government who know the truth to kill the interlopers, if they haven't gone native and/or died themselves.Įxtremely common in the science fiction genre which inspired it, especially in the more cynical age since the 70s when it was popularized by Logan's Run.
This will be disrupted when either an outsider comes into the community or one of the members of the community is required to leave it for some reason. One step beyond a Small, Secluded World, a community has been raised for generations inside of a bubble because of an Ancient Conspiracy and begins to think there is no outside world, that The City or The Village is the only remaining bastion of civilization.
