I've just seen a video about a guy visiting a Turkmenistan and read through the replies. I knew that Turkmenistan was a totalitarian country, but I never thought that they had elections in there. That lead me to a thought I had earlier this week, why do they even have elections in states that are obviously ruled by a tight group of people like before mentioned Turkmenistan, Belarusia, Russia...why do countries like Russia even have a judicidal system? Everyday I see that there is obviously a political trial in that country, why not just skip this whole ordeal and send that person in prison? That's a awful thing obviously, but I don't understand that once you basically have all the power over the country and you obviously don't want to change anything about it, why don't you go all in? Why are they trying to be something that they are not?