Talk:Terran Republic/@comment-26506357-20150712040643/@comment-153.107.192.204-20151019010540

Their motto is propaganda you do realise this? Look up the "accident" and the following events that occurred.

To summarise, the main leaders of the NC and Tom Connery (then president of the TR) went aboard a ship to organise a compromise or treaty. It's unknown whether a conclusion was reached as the ship exploded, killing all of the people at the meeting. Because of this, a TR lieutenant become leader and organised martial law on the ships, slowly restricting everyone's rights based out of the fear of another attack.

This style of military dictatorship shows symptoms of being a Stalinist regime, in which the government has complete control by exploiting and manipulating the fear of the masses and using it to slowly restrict rights and benefit themselves.

Your example of the TR on Earth is void to begin with, as on Earth it is a republic democracy, similar to that of most modern first world countries, only each member represents a country instead of a state/city. Under Tom Connery, this remained the same throughout the voyage, and the only restrictions were mainly on business to stop them from exploiting people's desparation. After the "accident", martial law was declared and it had become a military dictatorship. It no longer resembles that of Earth's TR.