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[General Sci-fi] What faction is the most hated in its own fluff?

I was reading the Clan Raukaan supplement for Warhammer 400000, and I was surprised to see just negatively it treated the chapter. I knew games workshop wasn't overly fond of the Iron Hands, but their own supplement - ostensibly supposed to celebrate their impressive character and get you invested in collecting them - all but called their entire philosophy stupid and foolish, and had them act like petulant children. Needless to say, I was rather shocked. 

But it got me thinking that sometimes you see this in other fiction too. The Kazon on Star Trek Voyager were said to be so worthless assimilating them would have weakened the Borg, the Vogons are so terrible in Hitchhicker's guide their poetry can kill. So here's a fun question for this board: What is the most hated - or failing that the most inexplicably hated - faction in sci-fi?
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Cobra: a globe spanning organization with not only the man power (tons and tons of recruits including both military specialists and regular soldiers) to match that of a U.N. backed, U.S. military fighting force but also enough economic, intellectual, and production power to develop and mass produce all of their own weapons and vehicles.

It is shown to have absolutely no public support and it's leadership is utterly inept to the point that in many episodes, Cobra is seen being defeated by its leaders' own stupidity or the casual intervention of children and civilians.

The only explanation is that the cartoon, GI Joe, is an in-universe work of propaganda to try and drive the masses of potential Cobra recruits away from joining what must be a powerful organization with ideals that draw considerable public support (with the "actual" in-universe events being utterly hidden from viewers in our reality).