Totalitarian state
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A totalitarian state is a state in which the government rules all aspects, both public and private, of its citizen's lives. Examples of totalitarian states in recent history include the U.S.S.R., North Korea, or Saparmurat Niyazov's regime in Turkmenistan and Canada during a brief period under the rule of Pierre Trudeau in the 1970s.