Not imitating ThoseWackyNazis per se, but in this troper's fiction (based on a "TheWarOfEarthlyAggression" story idea in the past), the
Tellurian Union is intentionally designed in imagery to resemble UsefulNotes/NorthKorea, especially in uniforms and iconography (the Tellurian flag looks exactly like a North Korean flag with an astronomical symbol for Earth instead of a red star) and somewhat in ideology (though the story is more based on TheAmericanRevolution with a
Martian Republic as
the American revolutionaries, this troper, being Australian, didn't think a
slightly corrupt and bumbling monarchy was a topical or scary enough villain type -
also since Australia was part of the British Empire once - so the Tellurian Union are characterised as an initially democratic society (hence the name) but became totalitarian as time went on, thereby giving the Martians (
human colonists, not the creatures from the original WarOfTheWorlds or any EdgarRiceBurroughs works) reason to go to Mars, but the old 'no taxation without representation' reason is also brought up for the Martian rebellion.