Totalitarians

Totalitarians are Pure Evils who favor and share beliefs of a system in which the state or any other ruling institution has unlimited power over every aspect of public and private life, often run by a "supreme dictator", and often envisioned as an evil empire, new world order, or dictator-wannabe.

These are the villains most often associated with tyranny of the Lawful or Neutral Evil variety and focus on control, dominance, and fear, as well as military might and the subservience of all who are not part of a social elite. Totalitarians can also seek to bring about their aims via chaotic and/or terroristic means that destabilize the status quo of their settings, instituting their ideal forms of rulership in the ashes of what came before.

While a great many evil rulers are content to lord over their peers, the Totalitarians differ in the fact that they tirelessly seek to not only dominate the world but radically change it on every level - to this end, they are some of the most oppressive and dangerous regimes and individuals in fiction; whereas a common dictator values power and may allow some freedom to those they favor and be happy to rule over a small to mid-sized territory, a Totalitarian is forever researching ways to ensure that they not only keep any power they obtain, but also spread power out in a never-ending expansion designed (usually) at complete global (or even inter-planetary) conquest.

They are the opposite of Anarchists and their heroic opposite is Rebellions.