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A cousin trope to No OSHA Compliance. In the real world, when some horrible disaster happens, humanitarian aid generally pours in to the area. In the United States, these efforts are (in theory) coordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or "FEMA" for short, hence the trope name. It may not be effective for whatever reason, but people try to help. Note that this can sadly be very much Truth in Television, mostly in isolated areas where civilization is less organized, and the world doesn't like paying much attention (similar to an ignored civil war in Africa).

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  • A cousin trope to No OSHA Compliance. In the real world, when some horrible disaster happens, humanitarian aid generally pours in to the area. In the United States, these efforts are (in theory) coordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or "FEMA" for short, hence the trope name. It may not be effective for whatever reason, but people try to help. Note that this can sadly be very much Truth in Television, mostly in isolated areas where civilization is less organized, and the world doesn't like paying much attention (similar to an ignored civil war in Africa).
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  • A cousin trope to No OSHA Compliance. In the real world, when some horrible disaster happens, humanitarian aid generally pours in to the area. In the United States, these efforts are (in theory) coordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or "FEMA" for short, hence the trope name. It may not be effective for whatever reason, but people try to help. Not so in fiction, where earthquakes, terrorist attacks, and stranger events are avoided or outright cordoned off by the outside world and the survivors are left to fend for themselves. This seems especially prevalent in Japanese fiction, as it appears that nation has zero confidence in the stability of the social order -- the slightest accident on the street will inevitably lead to people cracking each others' skulls open to feast on the goo within. This goes double if it's a Go Nagai production. This covers isolated disasters ignored by the outside world, not conditions where the entire fabric of civilization has been destroyed by global-scale events. A Lampshade Hanging of this trope as the first clue that a disaster extends beyond the purely local scale is such a common narrative device that it's very nearly a sub-trope. Note that this can sadly be very much Truth in Television, mostly in isolated areas where civilization is less organized, and the world doesn't like paying much attention (similar to an ignored civil war in Africa). Examples of No FEMA Response include:
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