A police state is one 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.

The inhabitants of a police state experience restrictions on their mobility, and on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state.

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If you – like me – live in a westernized country, reading the above will probably have triggered images of deserts and brownish men with big moustaches killing other brownish men with even bigger moustaches. But did you ever consider the possibility of a police state not so very far away from home? Let’s see, for example like right where you are currently enjoying your modern, civilized and democratic life? No? Oh… Well, you might be in for a bit of a nasty surprise then. More »