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police state

— noun a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)

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For everyone else, a kind of state of emergency was proclaimed that has allowed state interference in essential civil rights. Controls at borders have become an ordeal for many, and police persecution now burdens quite a few.