[bluefish]

Is it a police state, or the dismantling of multiple bureacracies? Many huge nations were brought to their knees by the bureaucrats moreso than an overzealous power at the top.

[Arleigh]

Many huge nations were brought to their knees by the bureaucrats moreso than an overzealous power at the top.

Such as...?

Nazi Germany. Communist Russia. Communist China. I challenge you to match the body count and human misery in those three countries with any nations "brought to their knees" by an overly big bureaucracy.