L'Etat à genou is a book written to draw the attention of the public authorities to the threats facing the state, defined as "a whole that brings together the government that gives orders to its officials who work for it. It is clear today that the harmony that existed during the time of the PS has been broken since the alternation and the gap is widening with the alternation. Indeed, the SOPI's PAPE who had finished stripping civil servants of all their prerogatives triggered survival reflexes in them. And the regime of the second political changeover in Senegal is not on the way to solving the problem, because not content with reinforcing the injustices caused by his predecessor, the chief apologist seems to close his eyes to the flagrant abuses that are occurring in the country. At present, to say that the State is on its knees is not a tautology, because when mentoring is set up as a management principle; when civil servants refuse to execute decisions and instructions; when institutions make the apology of institutional disobedience; is it not time to get a grip before the irreparable happens