Shame
Salman Rushdie, Shame
(feud between ruling families in fantasy-state 'Peccavistan')
Dictators
Augusto Roa Bastos, I, The Supreme (Francia, dictator of Paraguay)
Miguel Asturias, The President (corruption and jackboot evil in South America)
Michael Moorcock, Gloriana (state and ruler one gross, monstrous entity)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch (deathbed monologue of fanatical, deranged South American dictator)
Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (Napoleon)
Evelyn Waugh, Black Mischief (England-educated 1930s black African ruler)
Many Generations
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (sprawling family dominate small town in fantasy South America)
Peter Carey, Illywacker (132-year-old Australian conman tells his story)
John Irving, The World According to Garp (evolution of writer in fantasy New England town)
Gerald Harvey Morris, Doves and Silk Handkerchieves (magic and realism in 1900s English mining village)
Günter Grass, The Flounder (fisher-couple and talking fish live through all German history)
Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits (political and personal evolution in rich South American family over 100 years)
Politics
Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah (emerging African totalitarian state)
Timothy Mo, An Insular Possession (British imperialism and Honk Kong)
Gore Vidal, Burr ("traitor" who tried to set up rival republic to Jeffersonian America)
Nadine Gordimer, A Sport of Nature (white girls joins South African freedom fighters)
Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon (treason-trial of old-guard revolutionary in unnamed but Stalinist dictatorship)
George Orwell, Animal Farm (animals declare republic which degenerates into dictatorship)