Today I watched a documentary about the oppressive regime in Pyongyang and the fanaticism of its citizens due to decades of indoctrination. I then thought about less long lives regimes in Germany and Cambodia tegardinf their brutality. So I wonder, how brutal can a nation realistically get, and under what circumstances. Basically, te challenge is to get a nation of even greater notoriety, savagery, fanaticism and/or danger to the outside world than OTLs DPRK. POD is no earlier than 1900 and if possible exclude surviving Nazis or Kmner Rouge for originality. Go!