If I was reading a history book about a nation that executed innocent people, allowed serious corruption within its judiciary to go unpunished, banned books on sexual autonomy, and featured a ranting autocrat promising to punish his political enemies, which nation am I reading about?

Nacirema?

3rd Reich.

Henry the 8th?

That sounds just like the United States.

Far too vague, could be any of a number of nations.

Bourbon France?

i fear there are too many correct answers for one skeet

By "history book" you mean today's NYT/WaPo/etc.?

In college, I took a class (Comparative Cultural Literary Studies) where the theme changed every semester. One semester it was "The Nature of Good and Evil." This sounds like the kind of book we'd have been assigned for the class. (It was a great class - you could repeat the course up to 3 times.)

Germany 1930s / United States 2020s