The various powerful and rival factions come together and agree upon a person acceptable to all. Usually a person perceived as a safe non-entity that each group imagines they can control.
This method failed miserably in Germany, leading to Hitler. However, the Russians in their communist phase got it down to an exact science, in which they hardly ever had to kill too many people during the changeover.
Towards the end of the Soviet era, it got so that they could just retire their "leaders" to rest homes, a somewhat large improvement from the random ditches and dumpsters that had served originally.
Which would describe a system where a dictator hold authority over nearly every part of life?
A dictator. An example of a dictator would be Adolf hitler.
a dictator Dictator is good. You could also call him or her an absolute monarch, an autocrat, an authoritarian figure, a totalitarian ruler.
A dictator by his/ her very nature takes complete control of a government and the only way they can maintain control is through the military and police to enforce their dictatorship .
totalitarin Dictatorship
Features exemplify a utopian style of government that includes overthrowing an existing ruler, eliminating poverty and rivalry political parties and censoring media communication to the public.
We would use the word "totalitarian" to describe a country in which the government has complete control of everything.
A totalitarian government has complete control over its people.
The dictator in George Orwell's 1984 is Big Brother, who leads the totalitarian regime of the Party in Oceania. Big Brother is a symbol of the government's omnipresent surveillance and control over the citizens through propaganda, thought control, and fear tactics. His image is displayed everywhere as a reminder of his authority and power.
A government that exerts total control over a nation is called a totalitarian regime. In such a system, the government typically regulates every aspect of public and private life, including political, social, economic, and cultural activities, often using tactics like censorship, propaganda, and repression to maintain power. Totalitarian regimes are characterized by limited individual freedoms and a lack of political pluralism.
Generally speaking this is an administrative form of government, Totalitarian. A Totalitarian form of government can exist in almost any base form of government. For example a Totalitarian: Democracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship, Oligarchy; however some form of governments would specifically limit it, so would not (at least in theory) be possible, such as a Totalitarian Republic.
The way a dictatorship works is the dictator has rule over everyone.