Totalitarian states operate with a military-style top-down command structure, so the key virtue in the eyes of the government is obedience. You have to do as you are told and follow the leader all the way to ruin and disaster.
A dictator
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The government is very totalitarian and communist.
A totalitarian government has complete control over its people.
A dictator is the person who runs the government. He does things only to benefit himself and people have no rights. Anyone who protests is killed.
A Totalitarian government is not a single base form of government, it is an administrative type of government that requires a base form of government to exist. You can have a, Totalitarian: Dictatorship, Monarchy, Oligarchy, Democracy, etc. but you cannot have a 'free form totalitarian' government as it has no base existence.
A totalitarian dictator does anything he wants to do. There is no check or balance in that sort of government.
The adjective totalitarian describes a form of government in which the government asserts its authority over every aspect of life, and there are no limitations on what the government is allowed to do.
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The problems that caused the rise of totalitarian government included mass revolutions from dissatisfied groups.