States Rights vs. Centralized Power

Someone asked me this question once: "How can the state be thuggish? A thug is a violent, criminal entity."
My answer: Because both the thug and the government use force or the threat of force to carry out their intentions.
Example: Saudi Arabia where homosexual acts are subject to the death penalty.
Wouldn't it be preferable if power wasn't centralized within Saudi Arabia and the provinces had some level of autonomy, where homosexuals would be welcomed, or at least not executed? Even if only one providence had more lenient laws concerning homosexuals, by simply existing it would allow people to vote with their feet and they could have at least one bastion of freedom within a centralized state to move to.

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P2) Next step for EU & the rest of the west is a citizen co-operative model of Central Banking = money (as opposed to the subjective notion of currency which is open to manipulation or speculation - fiat fractional reserve or commodity -gold or oil being controlled by non democratic non constitutional powers would be an open door to criminal dominance whose than a rouge central bank like the Fed as it could not be shut down) supply is created by work innovation & technology=1 share per citizen

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Good video - some point though - Hitler wanted to Model Germany on some of the unitary power principles (in constitutions of fused powers with a powerful executive) that the British state was based on.
In Modern post-war times the German Federal Republic like Sweden or Spain is not centralised nor is the EU it is a federation - as well as Sweden & Germany (+ Switzerland) having direct democracy only limited by the assertion of the Natural & Economic Rights in the German Constitution.