What if the state controlled everything?
A premise imagining a society in which a total authority governs thought, behavior, reproduction, or history.
What if the state controlled everything? in fiction: 8 works
The novel's premise is built around the creation of cities designed to embody specific societal ideals, implying a powerful entity's control over their inhabitants' lives and values.
Humanity lives isolated underground, wholly dependent on an all-providing Machine.
The One State regiments every citizen's hour and denies them names, the novel's premise.
The Party's total control over thought, history, and behavior is the novel's premise.
A regime that burns books to suppress dissenting thought is the novel's premise.
A pre-crime system that punishes intent extends state control into the future itself.
A theocracy seizes control of women's bodies and reproduction, Gilead's founding premise.
The pre-crime apparatus extends state authority to punish intent before action.
More premises
- What if machines could think?
- What if we could travel through time?
- What if we met an alien intelligence?
- What if we could create life?
- What if reality were a simulation?
- What if we could live forever?
- What if civilization collapsed?
- What if we could edit the mind?
- What if we could engineer humanity?
- What if we settled other worlds?
- What if history had gone differently?
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