noun. A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.

noun. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

noun. the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government

"It's astounding, the way this government operates, wherein you can posit the term totalitarianism and actually cobble together a credible argument."

totalism  totalist  totalistic  

ideology  political orientation  political theory  

agrarianism  authoritarianism  egalitarianism  sectarianism  

Nazism  advisers'  communism  cosmonaut  dictatorship