When he finally declares the formation of the First Galactic Empire, it's really just a formal change in name, while the corporations that caused the corruption and the Clone Wars get nationalized after their leaders are slaughtered. Palpatine becomes the only voice of authority, and all worlds have a regiment of clone troopers for "protection". As the Clone Wars drag on, the Republic becomes a military dictatorship in all but name. At the time Attack of the Clones takes place, Chancellor Palpatine's tenure should have ended two years ago, but he's stayed Chancellor beyond his second term because of the Separatist crisis a crisis he himself engineered and eventually, he gains emergency powers that prove to be the beginning of the end of democracy and its corruption.
#Autocracy or democracy imperial glory license
Only Citizens (which is a privileged status one has to earn there are a few ways to do this, but military service is the easiest, as the news films proudly declare "SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP") are allowed to vote, you need a license to breed (Citizens can obtain a license more easily), murderers are arrested, tried and executed the same day, the media is nothing but government-owned propaganda, and everyone is horribly desensitized to violence. Whatever else it is, it's clearly not a federation, since power resides in a highly centralized military bureaucracy the effective head of the state appears to be the Sky Marshal.
#Autocracy or democracy imperial glory full
The Federation in Starship Troopers, the full name of which according to background material is apparently the "United Citizens' Federation".Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves freedom-fighters. I guess they can't own up to what they usually are: a federation of worse oppressors than the last bunch of oppressors.
Yuri: Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other. Lord of War: Discussed when Yuri visits a group of "Freedom Fighters" in war-torn Sierra Leone to discuss an arms deal.The audience isn't fooled, as he already made his real nature painfully clear to Batman earlier in the film.
Bane declares that this is a "liberation" and that he's a champion of "the people".
the Scarecrow, who icily informs every defendant that "Your guilt has already been determined this is merely a sentencing," where it turns out that both sentences are actually the same thing. The wealthy are dragged out of their homes by angry mobs of armed criminals and summarily sentenced to death by a kangaroo court led by Jonathan Crane. Bane turns Gotham City into this during The Dark Knight Rises, complete with Kangaroo Courts reminiscent of the French Revolution (this link is quite explicit, as Commissioner Gordon actually quotes A Tale of Two Cities at one point, and in an interview, we learn that Jonathan Nolan actually encouraged Christopher Nolan to read the book while he was writing the script).
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