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Totalitarianism

/tˌoʊˌtæləˈtɛriəˌnɪzəm/
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(noun) A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.

Totalitarianism is when people are mean to me.
The New World Order is an atheist new communist totalitarianism.
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