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* ''Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo'' (it was translated as "Diary of the War of the Pig"), a 1969 novel by Argentinean writer and Cervantes Prize winner Adolfo Bioy Casares. A dystopic world where old people is deemed as "useless pigs", any kind of healthcare or benefits has been removed by the government and youngster's mobs are given tacit right to kill them in the streets, forcing them to hide and live a miserable existence in the underworld. Thus, type 3; though the approach to this subject is both grim and comedic at the same time.

* There was a short-lived [[YA Novel]] series called ''2011'' where this scenario happens in a type 3 situation.

* The kids in ''[[Battle Royale]]'' are type 1-ish, but they [[Teens Are Monsters|don't have much civilization to speak of]].

* In [[Larry Niven]]'s "A World Out Of Time", most of the Earth was ruled by immortal boy-children who kept a supply of grown-ups around as breeding stock (The immortal girl-children were wiped out by a gender war and environmental changes making their territory uninhabitable). All new boy-children are taken from the adults and join troupes of the immortal boys; the ones that demonstrate "superior qualities" are sent back to the adults to become new breeding adults, while the rest become immortal and stay boys forever. Girls remain with the adults and grow into new breeding adults.<br /><br />Both the boys and girls are depicted as cruel despots, but not because of their "youth"; most were far older than the adults and had the mentalities to match. They're cruel because they're powerful, ancient immortals, and cruelty is how they alleviate their boredom.

== [[Real Life]] ==

* An interesting case was that of China when the Communists first took over. For a society that had always relied on an extremely rigid age-based hierarchy, suddenly teenage and young adult members of the Communist Party were given life-or-death power over their elder family and community members. Some of them went a little drunk with power for a while.

* Parts of the UK for complex reasons. If you take high youth unemployment, a society that runs on rampant consumerism and then an unarmed man is shot by police you have a recipe for social disorder. At first it was supposed to be a protest against the shooting and then it became a case of want, take, have.

** Type 3 during the 2011 England riots entire city centre's became teenage wastelands of looting and ultraviolence for about 4 nights. Not all of them were teenagers but many were under 25, including one 11 year girl arrested for looting.

* One of these is encountered by Fry and his ex-girlfriend in an episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' when they believe they're stuck in an [[After the End]] scenario. Later on they learn that LA in the future is just a hellhole...or [[Take That|more of one, anyway]].

* An episode of ''[[Martin Mystery]]'' had a town were adults were sent to the [[Cyberspace]] {{spoiler|to an evil alien that uses the energy of others to get out of his web prison}}.

* In ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' hour long musical special ''School's Out!,'' Timmy wishes that kids ruled the world, and is elected President. [[Once an Episode|As usual,]] this starts out really cool but culminates with dystopian catastrophe. {{spoiler|It wasn't the kids' fault, though -- it was those freaking ''pixies.''}}