The example that comes immediately to mind is Nazi Germany.
Children were enrolled in the Hitler Youth (for boys) and the League of German Maidens (for girls). Constant meetings, field trips, lectures, "community work"--anything to keep the kids busy.
Adults were expected to join one or more Nazi associations. Carpenters, teachers and university faculty and students, lawyers, doctors, all had to be members of a Nazi professional association. Block monitors kept tabs on who attended meetings and who didn't. Scams like "winter relief" kept people working as "volunteers" to raise money for the needy--which of course went into Nazi coffers. Two personal accounts stand out--a woman visiting her gynecologist had to listen to Nazi programming on the office PA. A young man reported how relieved he was to be drafted into the army, because basic training meant an actual relief from the constant pressure of the Nazi state.
Similarly, Stalinist Russia used much the same techniques.
Parades and rallies filled the role of church services. Tight control of all media meant the message was never diluted.
All of these are pages from the textbook of totalitarian control and manipulation.
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