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I couldn't help noticing (while I was reading through the filled prompts) how the situation Sansa and the Starks faced in Westeros after Ned was declared a traitor matched the situation faced by many of those fighting for the Arab Spring in the Middle East--see this http://www.theweek.co.uk/world-news/syria-uprising/45747/what-abdo-hussameddin-has-risked-standing-assad?utm_campaign=theweekdaily_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter . If you look at what Jon, Robert and Ned did when they rebelled against the Targaryens--they were rebelling against an oppressive regime--much in the way that Nasser, Gaddafi et al rebelled against all the puppet rulers in Egypt, Libya etc. in the post-world war II era. However, in both cases, the rebellions led to little or no change--the leaders of the rebellion became just as bad or as uncaring as the rulers they replaced. So, what would happen in a modern AU, if Robert is the dictator of Westeros, Ned has just replaced Jon Arryn (whom he suspects has been murdered by Robert's wife, Cersei) as his right hand man, Sansa is engaged to the dictator's son, Joffrey, Sandor is Joffrey's bodyguard, Jaime is the hated Chief of Police who killed the former Mad King and on Robert's death, Ned insists that Stannis, Robert's brother and not Joffrey, his son, becomes dictator? Let's assume that Westeros is a member of the UN and has most of the developed world breathing down its neck for human rights violations, despite Jaime managing to charm several (female) politicians. How would things work in such a scenario?