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In The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov, the book revolves around a document that can destroy the tyranny of the empire known as, well, the Tyranni.Also played straight with Naboo, where Padmé served two four-year terms as elected monarch. Played straight, however, in that the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic had a limit of two four-year terms (unless emergency powers were granted). This makes the rise of the Galactic Empire analogous to the rise of The Roman Empire and Nazi Germany, with Palpatine being a combination of Emperor Augustus and Adolf Hitler.

The Galactic Republic seems to be mostly based on The Roman Republic, with shades of Germany during the 1930s.

Mostly averted in the Star Wars prequels.

According to the novelization, this Federation's predecessor WAS the U.S.

This is possibly meant to reference the United Nations.

The Fifth Element has the President of the Federated Territories, of which Earth, specifically New York, appears to be merely the capital city.

Cooper had been gone for a very long time, so he was placed in a station that had a "Rural Americana" theme going on because it would be familiar to him help ease the culture shock.

This one might actually be an invoked trope.

In Interstellar, The colony Cooper finds himself in at the end is pretty much a piece of rural America orbiting Saturn, with NASA still overseeing things.

When contact is lost with LV-426, the United States Colonial Marine Corps is sent to investigate.

In Aliens it is clear that the United States is still a superpower and has colonized several planets.

For the space colonies however, this rings hollow given the EF's tendency of treating Spacenoids as second-class citizens (not to mention many of the original colonists being sent out due to not having the political or economic means to stay on Earth), which would give rise to Zeon (and its many offshoots), Cosmo Babylonia and the Zanscare Empire.

The Earth Federation in the Universal Century Gundam works is at least nominally this given its rather American (and generally Western) aesthetic.

Later, Earth and the space colonies are all merged into the Earth Sphere Unified Nation.

In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, the L2 Colonies belong to America.

Thus, Space America, instead of being looked upon as the default "good guy", can be viewed just as objectively. This makes it easy to sympathize with them as much as the Space Americans.

This is one of the rare instances where the Space Germans are not modeled on Nazi Germany, but rather 19th Century Prussia.

Which only serves to strengthen analogies to the American War of Independence against the British.

It should be noted that the Alliance was originally a breakout faction of the Space German Empire and therefore younger than them by several hundred years.

Most of the Alliance eventually does fall to Reinhard about halfway into the show.

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By the time the series begins, the efforts of a few good men like Yang Wen-li and the threat posed by their Space German enemies are pretty much the only things effectively holding them together.

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The Free Planets Alliance in Legend of the Galactic Heroes clearly invokes the USA ( right down to the English lyrics of the anthem ), to the point that they might as well be called "Space Americans" At the same time, however, it's revealed to be an increasingly dysfunctional democracy wracked by corruption.Any democratic world government assembled from existing nations and not established by conquest would likely also take a similar federal form, either along presidential or parliamentary lines. The United States was established as a federal system, with protections for the rights of its constituent states combined with elements of direct representation of the people in the central government. On the other hand, this can be justified, if only because the US is the only country (so far) to actually achieve manned spaceflight outside of Earth orbit, and the people who get there first will naturally set things up to their liking.

In short, a subtrope of Creator Provincialism. This is largely due to the outsized role Hollywood plays in western popular culture. Even the military will use a ranking system based on American military ranks. The Federation will be ruled by an elected President, there will be a Congress-like legislature, and so on. In either case, most people, space stations, ships, planets, settlements, and so on will not only have names in English, but they'll also have names that are recognizably American.