Star Wars the prequels sort of dealt with the subject, although it framed the fascist leader as an exceptionally skilled statesman puppeteering behind the scenes and not the reactionary populist personality cults they usually are.

What is a functional justice system? They all generally have little kings at the top. That’s the problem. At the bottom, the US legal system is (well, was) very rigorous.

I don’t know, but my bot sense tingles a lot less in Lemmy. There also isn’t a hidden penalization score that can be associated to accounts like on Reddit, what you see is what you get. Almost no backend shenanigans, not even shadow bans. If only it didn’t hide downvote information like on Reddit.