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totalitarian

adjective as in dictatorial

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“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy,” Orwell wrote in his diary while he was working on the book.

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This exploitation was of course opportunistic in the extreme, but it also revealed something fundamental about totalitarian psychology.

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The plot is simple and incredibly dark: In a dystopian United States under totalitarian rule, 100 teenage boys are selected from a lottery to participate in a contest that only one can win.

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Released in 1982 and set in 2025, it predicts a totalitarian America in which citizens are declared enemies of the state by a game show and forced to run from law enforcement and elite assassins.

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North Korea is one of the world's most repressive totalitarian states, with Kim and his family ruling the hermit nation for decades.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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