It's set in a future England, where a fundamentalist and fascist government has risen in response to war and a deadly plague. In addition to the usual crimes against the state that can get a person in trouble, it is illegal to own a Koran, and homosexuals are arrested and made to disappear.
Sounds like Afghanistan. Except subsitute Bible with Koran.
I think it could be just about any country in which fear of the Other has overriden respect for personal liberty. (Assuming it was ever there to begin with, which in some places or people, it was not.)
As Frank Herbert wrote in Dune: Fear is the mind-killer. It is the little death that brings total oblivion.
I think "V" makes it clear that the people embraced a leader who assured them he would make them safe, protect them from "The Bad People" -- and before they realized it they were "protected" into a state of oppression.
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Sounds like Afghanistan. Except subsitute Bible with Koran.
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As Frank Herbert wrote in Dune: Fear is the mind-killer. It is the little death that brings total oblivion.
I think "V" makes it clear that the people embraced a leader who assured them he would make them safe, protect them from "The Bad People" -- and before they realized it they were "protected" into a state of oppression.