David said: Orly. I think that if the country is small enough, with a powerful military (kinda like Prussia after the late Renaissance, but with modern tech), you can get the people ignorant in an instant – especially if the technology there is bad, or, if the government controls all aspects of the media, including TV, radio, journalism, and the internet.
Think about it, it’ll be a cage, and the mice inside will become blind.
But then they’d get nuked by the UN. (reference to 451)
The governments of many (if not most) small countries already have a monopoly on the media. Many forms of foreign media already are nothing but mere propaganda boosters. But the Internet is becoming exceedingly difficult to regulate. As is already well-documented in large-scale cases, Iran and China have had more and more trouble censoring the Internet.