Question: In which country did the main character of "The Dean's December" observe a political system in which the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever possible?

Context articles: Slip coach
Totalitarianism
Kyun Ki Shahar Hai Aapka
Work domain analysis
The Dean's December
Angus MacGyver
Restore the Family for Children's Sake
SCORE (software)
Democratization
The Remnant (newspaper)

A slip coach or slip carriage is a British and Irish railway term for passenger rolling stock that is uncoupled from an express train while the train is in motion, then slowed by a guard in the coach using the brakes, bringing it to a stop at the next station.
 The coach was thus said to be "slipped" from its train.
 This allowed passengers to alight at an intermediate station without the main train having to stop, thus improving the journey time of the main train.
 In an era when the railway companies were highly competitive, they strove to keep journey times as short as possible, avoiding intermediate stops wherever possible.
Totalitarianism is a political system in which the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.
 A distinctive feature of totalitarian governments is an "elaborate ideology, a set of ideas that gives meaning and direction to the whole society".
Kyunki Shahar Hai Aapka is an initiative of Lucknow society, The mission of this initiative is to spread awareness about cleanliness of their city, to make people stop writing on walls and pasting posters wherever possible.
 The initiative is not only confined to cleaning the walls but the main purpose of the initiative is to spread awareness among the common people as to what this city can be.
 The effort known as Kyunki Shahar Hai Aapka, is as much a reminder to the people of Lucknow as to the volunteers, that the care and welfare of Lucknow is not merely a bureaucratic affair but the responsibility of each and every individual.
 The initiative is open for all and has no criteria through which a citizen has to go through in order to be a member, but to fill an online form available on the website and Facebook page of Kyunki Shahar Hai Aapka.
The initial phase within the Cognitive work analysis (CWA) framework, Work Domain Analysis, provides a description of the constraints that govern the purpose and the function of the systems under analysis.
 The Abstraction Hierarchy (Rasmussen, 1985; Vicente, 1999) is used to provide a context-independent description of the domain.
 The analyses, and resultant diagrams, are not specific to any particular technology; rather they represent the entire domain.
 The top-three levels of the diagrams consider the overall objectives of the domain, and what it can achieve, whereas, the bottom-two levels concentrate on the physical components and their affordances.
 Through a series of ‘means-ends’ links, it is possible to model how individual components can affect the overall domain purpose.
 The abstraction hierarchy is constructed by considering the work system’s objectives (top-down) and the work system’s capabilities (bottom-up).
 The diagram is constructed based upon a range of data collection opportunities.
 The exact data collection procedure is dependent on the domain in question and the availability of data.
 In most cases, the procedure commences with some form of document analysis.
 Document analysis allows the analyst to gain a basic domain understanding, forming the basis for semi-structured interviews with domain experts.
 Wherever possible, observation of the work in context is highly recommended.
The Dean's December is a 1982 novel by the American author Saul Bellow.
 The first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, it is set in Chicago and Bucharest.
 The book's main character, Albert Corde, a meditative academic who faces a crisis, accompanies his Romanian-born astrophysicist wife to her Communist-ruled native country, where they deal with the death of his mother-in-law.
 This sojourn allows Corde to observe the workings of a totalitarian regime in particular and the Eastern Bloc in general, a perspective which provides him with insight into the human condition.
Angus MacGyver (known as just MacGyver, or Mac) is a title character and the protagonist in the ABC television series "MacGyver".
 He is played by Richard Dean Anderson.
 MacGyver works as a problem solver for the fictional "Phoenix Foundation" in Los Angeles.
 Educated as a scientist and with a background from a fictional United States government agency, the Department of External Services (DXS), he is a resourceful secret agent able to solve a range of problems.
 In addition to his scientific knowledge and inventive use of common items, he always carries a Swiss Army knife and a roll of duct tape.
 He prefers non-violent conflict resolution wherever possible and refuses to carry a gun but will sometimes use one (such as the AK47 rifle that he used briefly in the pilot episode).
 Lucas Till portrays a younger version of MacGyver in the rebooted 2016 TV series.
Restore the Family For Children's Sake is a political party launched in Great Britain for the 2015 Parliamentary General Election on 7 May 2015.
 The Party is a single issue party, whose only policy is to agree with Principle 6 of the 1959 United Nations’ Declaration of the Rights of the Child which states: 'The child, for the full and harmonious development of his personality, needs love and understanding.
 He shall, wherever possible, grow up in the care and under the responsibility of his parents, and, in any case, in an atmosphere of affection and of moral and material security; a child of tender years shall not, save in exceptional circumstances, be separated from his mother.
 Society and the public authorities shall have the duty to extend particular care to children without a family and to those without adequate means of support.
 Payment of State and other assistance towards the maintenance of children of large families is desirable.'
 'He' includes 'she' - as per the second paragraph of the declaration's introduction.
SCORE is a scorewriter program, written in FORTRAN for DOS by Stanford Professor Leland Smith (1925-2013).
 It has a reputation for producing very high-quality results, though considered by some people somewhat difficult to learn.
 It was widely used in engraving during the 1980s and 1990s, although it still has not appeared in a Windows version.
 It continues to have a small, dedicated following of quality engravers, many of whom regard it as the world's best music-engraving program.
 Many publications that have earned Paul Revere and German Musikpresse engraving awards are produced with SCORE.
 SCORE is known for its ability to precisely position symbols on the page, and also allows the user complete control over every aspect of their music through making every possible aspect of music notation manually controllable (this, however, also leads to some difficulty or frustration of use in the program).
Democratization (or democratisation) is the transition to a more democratic political regime.
 It also refers to substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction.
 It may be the transition from an authoritarian regime to a full democracy, a transition from an authoritarian political system to a semi-democracy or transition from a semi-authoritarian political system to a democratic political system.
 The outcome may be consolidated (as it was for example in the United Kingdom) or democratization may face frequent reversals (as it has faced for example in Argentina).
 Different patterns of democratization are often used to explain other political phenomena, such as whether a country goes to a war or whether its economy grows.
 Democratization itself is influenced by various factors, including economic development, history, and civil society.
 The ideal result from democratization is to ensure that the people have the right to vote and have a voice in their political system.
The Remnant is a Traditionalist Catholic newspaper published twice a month in the United States of America.
 Although its editors are not affiliated with any particular institute or traditionalist group, the paper is sympathetic to Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the Society of St. Pius X.
 Founded in 1968, it is the oldest Traditionalist Catholic newspaper in the United States.
 "The Remnant" strives to adhere to Catholic teaching in every aspect of its journalism.
 The name "The Remnant" is a reference to the remnant of Isaiah and the belief that only a remnant of Catholics holding to the traditional teachings and practice of the Church remain after the sweeping changes brought by the Second Vatican Council.