police state

Noun
  1. A country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police) (synset 108458031)
    is a type of: absolutism, authoritarianism, caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

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