School Clubs Are Serious Business is a real thing in Japan, as they're meant to prepare students for the high-pressure work environment into which they'll eventually be dumped, and students are strongly encouraged to join at least one club. Note that in Japanese schools, this is an exaggeration of Truth in Television, as the Student Councils actually do have power over the approval and funding of student clubs. If the student council is not only powerful but more powerful than the adults, then they have a Teenage Wasteland. Naturally, led by the Student Council President. One thing that may or may not overlap with this trope is how the Yearbook Committee seems to have supreme power over the yearbook's content, despite the fact that in Real Life schools, administration would step in so that the students in danger of being hurt by the pictures would be out of harm's way. In the event that the student council is not corrupt and seeks to use their powers for good rather than evil, their rival will be the actual school administration, who will often butt heads with the council over the administration's own corruption/tyranny. Occasionally, their power will be checked by others, such as the School Newspaper Newshound. In fact, the staff may rarely appear at all (see Two-Teacher School). Council members have unparalleled freedom - they do as they please on campus, invent arbitrary rules that punish the masses, and give themselves and their allies special privileges. In fiction, a student council is Serious Business, with power worthy of corruption and abuse in the hands of those with evil in their hearts.
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