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* [[Even Mooks Have Loved Ones]]: One of the Dominic Flandry stories ended with Flandry successfully killing a Merseian agent who'd been stirring up rebellion on a Terran world. Then Flandry wondered if the agent had some children who couldn't understand why their father hadn't come home.
* [[Feudal Future]]: The Terran Empire is more recognisable as using this trope, but the late Polesotechnic league is more literally feudal. Van Rijn at one point speaks of getting an "oath of fealty" from an employee before giving the young fellow a major promotion.
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**The Polesotechnic League has some likeness to the Hanseatic League.
**The Ythrians are like Medieval Icelanders in their resistance to the idea of a bureaucratic state.
**The 'Tinerants on the planet of Aeneas are like Roma to the point of having totem pets much as hunting hounds were once the symbol of a clan chief among some Roma. However in this case the "pets" are part of a sort of psionic-bioattack by Aycharach and the 'Tinerents are unwitting victims.
* [[Floating Water]]: Justified in one of the Flandry novels, with an artificial zero-g environment.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Nicholas van Rijn from the Polesotechnic League novels is a greedy, sloppy, cynical, womanizing corporate executive. He also constantly saves his employees from death and disaster, often with an elaborate [[Batman Gambit]] that involves using evolutionary psychology to psychoanalyze whatever alien race is giving their interstellar trading company trouble. He is also merciful towards his enemies and tries to create win-win situations for them.
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