police state

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	absolutism, authoritarianism, caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny,
definition	:	a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) (noun.group)