: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
That's how it literally works in (modern) Germany btw. If you're proven to be "an enemy of the constitution (Verfassungsfeindlich), you are most likely going to be denied most jobs in the public sector. Of course, the Federal Agency for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz) does turn a blind eye to openly revolutionary Neo-Nazi cells in the army and police, but denies leftists jobs in even just stuff like public sector scientific research.
And it's been this way since 1972-ish, when the SPD chancellor made a law specifically targeting the newly legalized German Communist Party (DKP) and the various Maoist groups that were around back then.