Editing Mary Sue (section)

===Mary Suetopia===
For that extra bit of mind screw: There are cases of the "Mary Sue" accusation being thrown, with some justice, at entire ''civilizations''. [[TVTropes]] calls this particular variant "Mary Suetopia". Just about any Utopian work, and many a Dystopian work (*cough*Draka*cough*) can have this accusation thrown at them; commonly comes in three subspecies:

# Pure Preaching. Not just religious, but, in the story, any ideology that the author thinks knows The One True Path To (Happiness/Truth/God/Prosperity/etc.). Usually the most Sueish of the lot, since they're often little more than vehicles for an author to ham-fistedly preach their beliefs at you. (For some examples, see [[List of Mary Sues#Mary Suetopia]])
# Stories about or involving the Fall of such a civilization (sometimes incidentally; see, for example, many interpretations of [[Superman|Krypton]], where the only important part about the place is that it blew up after sending one last ship out to Earth), or about the conflict between two civilizations, one of whom is theoretically "better" than the other (e.g., some of the Culture books, or, on the flip side, [[Orks]] vs. just about anybody else). Can be Sueish, but can also avoid it, depending on the focus, nature, and quality of the work.
# Social Satire/Commentary. Here, the point of the work was less on how perfect this civilization is, and more on using it to comment on the culture in which it was written, or the state of the world at the time. Think ''1984'', ''Gulliver's Travels'', ''Brave New World'', ''A Clockwork Orange'', the original ''Utopia'', and so on. Can be the least Sueish of the three, depending on writing quality.

(As a side note, this version of Suedom is particularly /tg/ relevant; each version of Warhammer alone has vast amounts of the latter two (although admittedly in a usually fairly non-Sueish way), and there are too many cases of the first case in Science Fiction settings.)