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Well, remember, many totalitarian regimes are in fact woefully inefficient. Largely because the emperor/fuhrer/first citizen needs to make sure the people beneath him are either not ambitious enoug...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T10:13:57Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Matthew Dave
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2019-12-08T10:13:57Z (almost 5 years ago)
Well, remember, many totalitarian regimes are in fact woefully inefficient. Largely because the emperor/fuhrer/first citizen needs to make sure the people beneath him are either not ambitious enough or competent enough to potentially overthrow them. The emperor has to be a paranoid backstabber to maintain a totalitarian regime, and he thus assumes everyone else is a paranoid backstabber. Hence members of his cabinet are constantly rotating, no united vision can get done, the empire needs multiple spy organisations that are all spying on each other and murdering each other, et cetera, et cetera. Basically, an incompetent totalitarian regime shouldn't be hard to write; real-life totalitarian regimes tend to be woefully incompetent as is.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-11-21T16:32:54Z (about 6 years ago)
Original score: 16