Depictions of a fictional theocratic societies recur in science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy. Such depictions are mostly dystopian, and in some cases humorous or satirical; positively presented theocracies are very much the exception. Some fictional theocracies are based on a future or alternate history development of actual religions, in others the religions depicted are wholly |fictional. The following table is sorted by time of publication (for series, time of earliest publication).