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ARTelandia is the Land of ARTelevision's Vision, I think. Sort of like Petoria, or Joehio.
Anyway, to say that an authoritarian nation would require an uneducated populace in order to attain a population that conforms to societal needs is to ignore the potential that the population may find undeniable truth in their own government, and thus accept it's authority. This would lend it more legitimacy than a bunch of drones with a select few at the top who know what's going on. The hard part would be attaining an authoritarian government that educated citizens would accept and approve of, which is a gigantically enormous task with a nation 3,000 miles across and approaching 300,000,000 inhabitants. To get that many people to conform, you may very well have to keep the bulk of them uneducated.
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