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Ideological
Ideological adjective - Of or pertaining to or characteristic of an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation.
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- Certain types of Communists, and even good ol' fashioned non-ideological tyrants, most notoriously military dictatorships, can fit under this trope.
Source: Fascist, but Inefficient -
The reason given for their "Arrangement" is that they realised "they have more in common with their immediate opponents than their remote allies" and a certain acceptance of the inevitable, rather than ideological slippage.
Source: Go-Karting with Bowser -
Planescape: Torment is set in a cosmological/ideological neutral plane where religion is banned (as certain beliefs can literally manifest themselves in dangerous ways here), but the infernal races are permitted to recruit soldiers for their eternal Blood War against each other.
Source: Hell Is War
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