At first glance one might think that the following statement - "Police occasionally resorted to torture and physical beatings of prisoners ... The government generally did not permit prison visits by local or international human rights groups ... Arbitrary arrests and detentions continued to be problems" - was describing US practices, but it is in fact the US State Department's description of notoriously repressive Eritrea, made in a report condemning human rights abuses around the world. The report also said that in Israel "there were no reports of political killings during the year"

You're living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep.