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