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[Star Wars] Is there a reason why the Empire is so evil around the time of Alderaan?

I mean, I understand Sith philosophy, I also understand that States (governments) in general are pretty evil from different perspectives. 

But like... The First Order? Kidnapping kids and recruiting them is no-where near as efficient as just recruiting volunteer soldiers after inspiring patriotism. 

It's just severely inefficient and willingly incompetent.
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The First Order doesn't HAVE any volunteer soldiers. They're a government in exile, with no taxpayers, no citizens, no nothing, and really bad PR, basically a terrorist organization like ISIS or Joseph Kony's militia group. It's taken them 30 years to build up enough power to wipe out Hosnian Prime and that's because they were financing themselves through various illicit means.