Synonyms for police state
po·lice state

Princeton's WordNet

1. police statenoun

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

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1. • Dictatorship

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1. William S. Burroughs:

   A functioning police state needs no police.

2. Orson Welles:

   Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

3. Jim Acosta:

   You know, I seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning in a fleece vest in Virginia. He was running as a different kind of Republican. I was told there was going to be a vest, not a Soviet-style police state across the Potomac from Washington.

4. Andrew Yao:

   I don't see a pivot to a police state where they can come arrest us.

5. Hisham Genena:

   I am keen on the success of any president because his success is our success... but the attitude I'm seeing of using a security grip or reproducing the police state will not be productive, when political parties are absent, NGOs are absent, local media is being crushed, international media too... is that a sign of a healthy environment in which a country can flourish?