system
A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
An umbrella regime is capable of being less auth than smaller states it seeks to control or influence.

Consider the american civil war.  Was the Union more auth than the confederacy?  I think the black population of the CSA would say otherwise.
gpt
Given that the federal government has done nothing since its inception but expand its own powers over the states and the people in them, not exactly the best example. 

All government will over time trend toward authoritarianism.