Party officials and police worked to protect the slavers and stop the rescue of slaves from out of the province.

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    Government is government

    There’s different levels of government, with people working at different priorities. Even though is a one party system, provinces and local government have kinda independent approaches to govern. For a local officer having slaves could make sense for personal purposes, short term monetary wins, or showing its projects finish faster and cheaper. But for a higher level officer than kind of things wouldn’t make sense, can’t be big enough to give them a profit, without blowing on their face first. They already control a pseudo slave market, that is stable and accepted, with little resistance.

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      The top down nature of the authoritarian system allows corruption to flourish at all levels. One cannot pick and choose what parts are true Scotsmen.

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        You’re not wrong.
        But it’s looking like the alternatives are also fertile ground for corruption, so this doesn’t really render an effective criticism.

        I don’t like a 1-party system. I’d like a 0-party system, but I suspect in practice it’d either behave like a 1 party system or a typical western partisan system where people form voting blocks.