Qurac/Playing With

• Basic Trope: A fictional Middle-Eastern setting.
• Played Straight: Tropestan is located in a desert environment, with lots of Middle-Eastern sounding music and is a primarily Muslim country.
• Exaggerated: Tropestan is full of Arab Oil Sheikh men and Belly Dancer women, and there's lots of camels, hummus, falafels, hookahs, and coffee.
  • Alternatively, Tropestan is a Crapsack World where it's Honor Before Reason, full of terrorists and abused women covered from head to toe.
• Justified: The setting is the Middle East
• Inverted: Tropestan is blatantly part of Eagle Land.
• Subverted: Tropestan seems to have absorbed a lot of Western culture.
• Double Subverted: But it still has a rich Middle-Eastern type culture with lots of traditions of that culture.
• Deconstructed: May lead to Unfortunate Implications about the Middle East and its people and religion/culture if not handled correctly.
• Reconstructed: The writers have Shown Their Work, and the setting is portrayed like a real Middle-Eastern country.
• Parodied: See "Exaggerated"
• Zig Zagged: Sometimes Tropestan is portrayed this way, other times not.
• Lampshaded: "Sounds like it's in the Middle East."
• Averted: Tropestan's culture is more like that of America, Europe, East Asia, etc.
• Enforced: "We need to portray the Middle East in a way familiar to Westerners."
• Invoked: Alice and Bob are lost in the desert, and find themselves helped out by an Arab Oil Sheikh with an impressive harem of beautiful women.
• Defied: Over time, Tropestan has become a very secular country, and taken in a lot of outside influence. Any Middle-Eastern type traditions and culture it had are a thing of the past.
• Discussed: "I hear Tropestan is a nice place..."
• Conversed: "Why is the Middle East either a paradise of belly-dancers and camels or a Crapsack World of crazy terrorists?"
• Played For Laughs: Usually the first type under "Exaggerated"
• Played For Drama: The second type under "Exaggerated"