No joke. If the government employee behavior were to be personified into character, you would have to pick a control-freak psychopath to embody it.
This embodies "Her" well.
If you're not sure what that is from, it's the Stephen King movie Misery where a woman rescues someone from a car accident to "help" and "Care" for them... but then keep them imprisoned in her home.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100157/
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