Government in The Handmaid's Tale

As some of the world's  countries are developing exponentially in population, the book's supposed premise for radical transformations, which is a state's decline in human beings, and indeed in the general animal population, might seem improbable, but it is incredibly realistic (although somewhat vague) as to how the deterioration of democracy occurred. In non-chronological order, Offred recounts the tell-tale signs of political revolutions, with vivid images of women burning offensive "men's" magazines, the creeping infiltration of a new army, and her eventual legal dismissal as a library worker because she was a woman. That day she relates as the day she lost access to her bank account as it had been deferred to the male figure. Without money she was without prospects. After time passes, and she becomes the biological puppet of the Commander, who is presumably named Fred and the confirmed ringleader of the male upheaval against the United States of America. With censorship in the media, forced marginalization of a gender, and a forced religion, the Republic of Gilead is a totalitarian state.