AH Challenge: A Culture of Fear

While I suppose there have been a few parallels to this in history, I'm interested in seeing what lengths paranoia, fear, etc. can go in a society. For this challenge, I'm looking for a long-lasting culture of fear to be constructed in a nation, preferably Western, but NOT the Soviet Union or the United States.

I'm leaving what the nation is afraid of to the poster, but it must include things like:

  • Paranoia or hysteria reinforced by most or all media outlets
  • Moral panic
  • Leaders that pander to the society's sense of panic
  • A concerted effort to reinforce the fear, for example the state-sanctioned building of bomb shelters
What would the ramifications be of a Western nation in such a state? How would people "on the outside" feel about it?
 
Israel maybe. And there is a lot of fearmongering in a lot of different areas. Everything from fat to immigrants.
 

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While I suppose there have been a few parallels to this in history, I'm interested in seeing what lengths paranoia, fear, etc. can go in a society. For this challenge, I'm looking for a long-lasting culture of fear to be constructed in a nation, preferably Western, but NOT the Soviet Union or the United States.

I'm leaving what the nation is afraid of to the poster, but it must include things like:

  • Paranoia or hysteria reinforced by most or all media outlets
  • Moral panic
  • Leaders that pander to the society's sense of panic
  • A concerted effort to reinforce the fear, for example the state-sanctioned building of bomb shelters
What would the ramifications be of a Western nation in such a state? How would people "on the outside" feel about it?

Er, the nation already exists as the US. However, I could see a Nazi German state that stops at Poland or diplomatically gets what they want in the East(the corridor) as being quite a 'Culture of Fear', but it'd also be reactive about it..
 
  • A concerted effort to reinforce the fear, for example the state-sanctioned building of bomb shelters
You mean like Finland and Sweden which have state building guidelines which require mandatory bomb shelters to be built to every larger buiding and community shelters for concentrations of urban population? :)
 
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