The phrase "austere state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a government or political condition characterized by strictness, minimalism, or a lack of excess.
Example: "The country was under an austere state, with strict regulations and limited resources for its citizens."
Alternatives: "strict regime" or "spartan government".
Writing this week on Obama's trip to Saudi Arabia, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof denounced the Kingdom's austere state-sponsored ideology and noted that the group Human Rights Watch believes Saudi actions in Yemen constitute war crimes.
Austere states will need to add revenue increases to the mix while profligate ones will need to discipline spending.
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A year later, all the economic rules have changed, especially after last week, when Mr. Corzine presented his austere $28.9 billion state budget plan for next year.
Mr Osborne can find most of this in his budget on March 20th by shifting resources from less productive parts of Leviathan: for all the austere talk, state spending in 2011-12 was £300 billion more than in 2001-02.
By 1600 the Mughals in India had achieved a fairly austere and efficient state system, for which Akbar's genius deserves much credit.
The conversion of China from a form of communism every bit as austere as North Korea's state ideology of juche (self-reliance) to its present economic state of near-capitalism likewise began in 1978 with tentative steps in the field of basic commodities.
Gov. David Paterson of New York presented a lean budget on Tuesday that is a necessarily austere response to the state's financial crisis.
Compare Naipaul's two Africa novels — the taut, austere "In a Free State," published in 1971, and his full-bodied masterpiece "A Bend in the River," published in 1979 — and it's impossible to deny that having sex with Margaret (they did little else) was good for his writing.
