In The Way to Glory, the planet Yang is essentially Kostroma on steroids.

The Cinnabar government pointedly could care less exactly who is on the throne as long as each new ruler maintains fealty to Cinnabar, but the conflict of the book stems from the latest coup being backed by Cinnabar's rival the Alliance of Free Stars in a proxy war.

The planet Kostroma in With the Lightnings is a client state of the Republic of Cinnabar that goes through coup d'etats every few years.People die and nothing changes that's why they're called revolutions. Sam: Don't put your trust in revolutions. Tapioca is just as horrified by the break in tradition as Alcazar is. but in exchange for Tintin's help, has to spare Tapioca. And in Tintin and the Picaros, Alcazar finally has Tapioca cornered.Played for Black Comedy in 'The Broken Ear' where Tintin has been framed as a revolutionary and gets sent to the Firing Squad, then gets a Last-Minute Reprieve because the rebels have launched a coup, then gets sent to the firing squad again because there's been a counter-coup, only to be saved again when the rebels win after all.

They also fall under Full-Circle Revolution since, aside from slightly different uniforms and different names on the signs, their regimes aren't very different from each other. The government changes hands at least five times over the course of the series. In Tintin, General Tapioca and General Alcazar take turns deposing each other as dictator of San Theodoros (another Banana Republic).

The inhabitants have grown so used to it (and the soldiers so bad at aiming) that they barely pay attention to who's in charge at the moment, charging extra for food that doesn't have bullet holes in it. The French comic Benoit Brisefer features a Banana Republic with three quarreling generals, each of which is so spectacularly inept they can't stay in power for more than a week.

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