I've used the term the technocratic state sometimes, take away all of the tech and you'll have a far less potent beast...

But when I walk the streets back in the former free world, well I just can't stop the thought that 95% should not even be alive, on a really long timescale. How can they all even manage to dumb themselves down to the level we're at now?

It really was very different 40+ years ago...