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When you live under the thumb of TheEvilEmpire or a {{Dystopia}}n government, they have several ways to keep you there. This is a list of the many ways.

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When you live under the thumb of TheEvilEmpire TheEmpire or a {{Dystopia}}n government, they have several ways to keep you there. This is a list of the many ways.
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* ReignOfTerror: Causing panic to turn the population docile and easily manipulable.

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* ReignOfTerror: Causing panic to turn the population docile and easily manipulable.A rebellion begins purging its opponents.
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* ThePurge: Eliminating those who are deemed a threat.
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* DiagnosisKnowingTooMuch: Forcibly medicating someone to keep them quiet.
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* WhipOfDominance: Using a whip as a symbol of dominance, control, authority, or sadism.
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* GovernmentExploitedCrisis: The government uses a disaster (which it may or may not have created) to further its own goals.
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* BenevolentDictator: The dictator is actually a good ruler.


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* IntellectuallySupportedTyranny: The smart people support the dictatorship.


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* RepressiveButEfficient: The dictatorship is cruel, but efficient.

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* BigotWithABadge: He'll profile you right into a jail cell.

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* BigotWithABadge: He'll They'll profile you right into a jail cell.


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* FascistButInefficient: Turns out crushing human rights doesn't magically make trains run on time.
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* UnPerson: Erasing someone from existence, when used as a method for oppression.

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* UnPerson: Erasing all evidence that someone from existence, existed, when used as a method for oppression.
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* {{Unperson}}: Erasing someone from existence, when used as a method for oppression.

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* {{Unperson}}: UnPerson: Erasing someone from existence, when used as a method for oppression.
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* VillainousGentrification: Forced mass relocation under the name of urban renewal.
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* RageWithinTheMachine: Subverting the dystopia from the inside.
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* BigotWithABadge: He'll profile you right into a jail cell.
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* TheDictatorship: An undemocratic form of government that is controlled by a leader or small clique.

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* TheDictatorship: An undemocratic and authoritarian form of government that is controlled by a leader or small clique.
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* BigBrotherIsEmployingYou: The main character works for the dystopian government.
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* TheDictatorship: An undemocratic form of government that is controlled by a leader or small clique.
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* CommieLand: When communists are in charge, expect things to be depressing and oppressive.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: When used as a method for oppression.

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* ColdBloodedTorture: When used You will do as a method we say or you're gonna suffer ''physically'' for oppression.it.


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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Gruesome dictatorship masquerading as a SugarBowl, usually to ensnare more slaves.


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* KillThePoor: If someone has to be sacrificed for any purpose, use poor people, that's what they're for.


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* ATasteOfTheLash: Dissenters will be publicly whipped for all to see.
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* TotalitarianGangsterism: Criminal Gangs or organised crime are the ones oppressing the inhabitants.

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* TotalitarianGangsterism: Criminal Gangs gangs or organised crime are the ones oppressing the inhabitants.citizens.



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* FantasticUnderclass: A fantasy or sci-fi is the lowest of the low.
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* AnarchoTyranny: A corrupt government or tyrannical regime creates a state of AnarchyIsChaos so everyone is too busy fighting each other to worry about them, criminal neglect on a nationwide scale.
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* AnarchoTyranny: A corrupt government or tyrannical regime creates a state of AnarchyIsChaos so everyone is too busy fighting each other to worry about them, criminal neglect on a nationwide scale.
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* AnarchoTyranny: A corrupt government or tyrannical regime creates a state of AnarchyIsChaos so everyone is too busy fighting each other to worry about them, criminal neglect on a nationwide scale.
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* MakeAnExampleOfThem: We keep citizens in line by demonstrating the severe punishments on those who have disobeyed our laws!
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* WallsOfTyranny: Using walls not to protect, but to restrict movement.

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* WallsOfTyranny: Using walls not to protect, but to restrict movement.movement and keep people under the government's thumb.



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