Police state
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A police state is a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the population. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive.
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See also
- Arbitrary arrest and detention
- Counterintelligence state
- Dictatorship
- Martial law, the suspension of normal civil law during periods of emergency
- Military dictatorship
- Rechtsstaat (German)
- Surveillance state
- List of countries by incarceration rate
- Government
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