Ideologies / Autocratic Theocrat / Aunt Lydia
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Aunt Lydia
Gilead's iron matron
Theocracy enforced woman-to-woman.
Economic−8
SocialistMarket
Governance+94
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−90
TraditionalProgressive
The zealous enforcer of Atwood's Gilead, whose conviction and cruelty dramatise how a theocratic regime co-opts its subjects into policing one another.
social
Extreme religious-patriarchal traditionalism.
economic
Administers a religiously-rationed, caste-bound economy.
governance
True believer enforcing a totalitarian theocratic regime.
Notable for
- Enforcer in 'The Handmaid's Tale'
- Symbol of theocratic patriarchy
- Indoctrination and control
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