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There are regimes based on a certain ideology, like communism or naziism and there are autocratic regimes that are essentially ideology-free as well. Mubaraks is one example. While regimes anchored on a certain ideological base usually collapse if the contradiction between reality and propaganda becomes too obvious, like Eastern Germany 1989, the other kind of dictators base their rule on a fragile balance between the relevant forces in their country. In Mubaraks case that is the military, the gigantic "security" apparatus, and certain parts of egyptian business elites. Regarding the public many such regimes can be quite stable as long as they ensure that at least some wealth is beeing shared, that people have jobs and perspectives and some feeling of economic security. In return at least parts of the public may tolerate a certain degree of oppression. Regarding Egypt that balance has been destroyed by the regimes endemic corruption and greed among other factors that only left the oppression machine but not the jobs. And therefore the egyptian public is unlikely to be satisfied by only the head ( Mubarak) beeing removed.