A little knowledge can be dangerous, but I went for it regardless. Does this sound anything like in a country near you?

President's rule (or central rule in India) is a term used in when a state is placed under direct federal rule. President's rule gives authority to impose central rule if there has been failure of the constitutional machinery in any state. During President's Rule, a Governor appointed by the Central Government assumes executive authority. Since the President on the advice of the central government appoints the governor, the ruling party at the centre controls the state’s policies. During President's Rule, the Governor appoints advisor(s), who are retired civil servants, to help in administration. The advisors act in lieu of state ministers.

Authoritarianism is a form of social organization characterized by submission to authority as well as the administration of said authority. It is usually opposed to individualism and libertarianism. In politics, an authoritarian government is one in which political authority is concentrated in a small group of politicians.

Authoritarianism is characterized by highly concentrated, and centralized power maintained by political repression and the exclusion of potential challengers. It uses political parties and mass organizations to mobilize people around the goals of the regime.

Authoritarianism emphasizes arbitrary law rather than the rule of law, this could include election rigging, political decisions being made by a select group of officials behind closed doors, a bureaucracy that sometimes operates independently of rules, which does not properly supervise elected officials, and fails to serve the concerns of the constituencies they purportedly serve. Authoritarianism also tends to embrace the informal and unregulated exercise of political power, a leadership that is "self-appointed and even if elected cannot be displaced by citizens' free choice among competitors," the arbitrary deprivation of civil liberties, and little tolerance for meaningful opposition.

The psychological trait of authoritarianism… Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswick, Levinson and Sanford (1950) compiled a large body of research and theory (known as the Berkeley studies), which attempted to characterize a personality type that described the “potentially fascistic individual”. This personality type was labeled the “Authoritarian Personality” in honor of earlier writings by Fromm that used this term (Baars & Scheepers, 1993). Their research focused mainly on prejudice within a psychoanalytic/psychosocial theoretical framework (i.e. Freudian and Fromian). The main historical influence for this work was the rise of Fascism in the 1930s, World War II, and the Holocaust. Hence, a main component of this personality type is one who is susceptible to anti-semitic ideology and anti-democratic political beliefs.

Alfred Adler provided another perspective, linking the "will to power over others" as a central neurotic trait, usually emerging as aggressive over-compensation for felt and dreaded feelings of inferiority and insignificance. According to this view, the authoritarian needs to maintain control and prove superiority over others is rooted in a worldview populated by enemies and empty of equality, empathy, and mutual benefit.

Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible. Totalitarian regimes stay in political power through an all-encompassing propaganda campaign, which is disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that is often marked by political repression, personality cultism, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of speech, mass surveillance, and widespread use of terror.

Italian fascists first developed the concept of totalitarianism in a positive sense in the 1920’s. Giovanni Amendola who described Italian Fascism as a system fundamentally different from conventional dictatorships, formulated the notion of "totalitarianism", as a "total" political power by state in 1923. The term was later assigned a positive meaning in the writings of Giovanni Gentile, Italy’s most prominent philosopher and leading theorist of fascism. He used the term “totalitario” to refer to the structure and goals of the new state. The new state was to provide the “total representation of the nation and total guidance of national goals.” He described totalitarianism as a society in which the ideology of the state had influence, if not power, over most of its citizens. According to Benito Mussolini, this system politicizes everything spiritual and human: “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”.