A Rumspringa is an Amish tradition of sending off all '18 years olds' of those religions to live in an outside world for 1 year, after which they may chose to return or not.

From the 1990s to the early 2000s, the government of President Alberto Fujimori ran Peru’s forced sterilization campaign, targeting especially poor, rural, and Indigenous women. Official investigations and international human rights bodies have estimated that more than 300,000 women and more than 24,000 men were sterilized under the campaign, many through coercion or without valid informed consent.

In Game of Thrones, Tyrion Lannister asks Varys where political power truly resides, and Varys responds with a parable in which a king, a priest, and a wealthy noble sit together while a hired sword stands before them. Each of these figures issues commands for the sword to kill the others, yet Varys argues that none of them, despite their formal status or material authority, actually possesses direct control over the outcome, since the decisive force is the one the sword ultimately obeys. He then concludes that power is not rooted in titles, wealth, or divine sanction, but in collective belief, which functions as a shared illusion sustained by perception and capable of shifting or collapsing whenever people alter what they accept as legitimate.

In the borderlands of Myanmar, many Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) and local militias use the drug trade to fund "proto-states"; providing the only existing education, healthcare, and security for their populations in the absence of a functional central government. International law currently treats these groups as criminal entities, limiting their access to legal trade and legitimate governance frameworks.

Systemically Important Banks are financial institutions whose size, interconnectedness, and central role in financial markets mean that their distress or failure could disrupt the wider financial system. Regulators such as the Financial Stability Board classify them based on scale, cross-border activity, complexity, and linkages to other institutions. They are divided into global and domestic categories. Examples include JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Citigroup, and Deutsche Bank, etc.