To compare it to its neighbors or other totalitarian nations because of flaws in its democracy is fatuous.

A vast cooperative process of testing new theories is constantly going on-a process amazingly free (except, of course, in totalitarian nations) from control by a higher "orthodoxy."

The Hunger Games trilogy takes place in an unspecified future time, in the totalitarian nation of Panem.

The city's newfound status as the capital of a deeply secular, totalitarian nation, made religiously significant buildings especially vulnerable to demolition.

Galton envisioned what Brookes calls "a stud farm for intellectuals," a totalitarian nation of Newtons and Mozarts.

But there is a hint of talk about another secretive, totalitarian nation with a troublesome history of nuclear and germ warfare: North Korea.

The leaders of totalitarian nations understand this very well.

In every century, in every totalitarian nation, the media have been used to speak the thoughts, words and policies of those leading the country - always in glowing terms or threatening suggestions.

"We want to hear what China has to say, but on the other hand China is still a totalitarian nation," a senior Japanese offiical noted recently.

The Ambassador of a country very much like the United States is stationed in an unidentified totalitarian nation.