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How would you analyse NK if it didn't have hammers and sickles^1^ painted all over it? If instead it featured a swastika? A cat's paw? The Klingon emblem? Keep all facts on the grounds the same, look at "the purpose of a system is what it does", only switch symbols around. Maybe then you'll understand why other people's neck hairs stand on edge.
^1^ and brushes, a nice addition I have to admit though the graphic design is atrocious.
You pretty much already gave the answer: Your interpretation wouldn't change, or at least you can't imagine it would.
The homework I'll leave you then, is simple: Analyse Singapore as-is, but with hammer and sickle symbolism and rhetoric. Compare it to your analysis of NK, and see whether any inconsistencies arise.
What moderation could you possibly be afraid of if your interpretation were to meaningfully change and turn into a critique of authoritarianism?
Or is it that such an interpretation would get you banned from lemmygrad and you don't want to lose your cricket club?
The notion of state as inherently authoritarian is curious. Maybe read into anarchist critiques of ancaps (which aren't anarchists but neo-feudalists), the anarchist insistence on organisation and structure being necessary (Anarchism is Order is age-old doctrine), or, well, Kerry Thornley (which I already quoted): Nobody gives a damn about a state who busies itself with things like providing public transportation, general infrastructure, safety nets, conflict mediation, suchlike.
Nah what it shows is that I'm an incorrigible, smug, edgelord.