:1984: ugh it doesn't do a whole lot but the devs said your police go plant bugs and stuff. i mean they are surprisingly pacifist otherwise, no arrests, you just blacklist reactionaries from important jobs (or those that aren't "loyal to the state"). it does take some of the pure socialist urban/nation planning away from an otherwise good game. not sure how historically accurate it is, but if bug planting and removal of responsibilities is as "police state stasi" as this gets i won't be too upset in the long run. beats murdering citizens in the streets for minor crimes

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          You're right, it's cruel and unusual to keep an eye on students that likely grew up in the Hitler Youth. Also, it's free education. It's not like failing a class is the end of the world, they aren't burdened with student debt or anything. You can still just kinda go get a job. For fuck's sake, we don't even let you attend college in the first place if you aren't rich enough.

            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              So college kids in East Germany following the second world war wouldn't have grown up under the Nazis and indoctrinated in it from a very young age and maybe that's something to keep an eye on.

              Public services get revoked for political reasons all the time. Do you have revolutionary politics? Cause that requires WAY harsher actions motivated by political reasons that failing a class, which once again isn't expulsion.