The strong centralized government would take control of most of the nation's businesses, and while smaller businesses would remain in private hands, they had to work for a national goal. Nationalism is used to establish a strong national identity that would cause its citizens to work in order to guarantee its power and superiority over other nations. The government would begin to outlaw other political parties and silence free speech, and take over the nation's media. This would eventually lead to a one-party totalitarian state. From there, those considered "inferior" would be discriminated and eventually exterminated, while nationalism would ensure the people's belief in expanding the nation's borders, retaking the lands lost in the previous war, and gaining vengeance on those that had wr