In this chapter, I utilize the Weberian-Foucauldian state theory, preliminarily developed in Chapter 3 , to analyse the politics of COVID-19 in Sweden. Using Mann’s conceptual framework on the sources of power, and Foucault’s conceptual framework on the mechanisms of power, combined with a Weberian definition of the state, I study the anatomy of power during the pandemic. As discussed, these theoretical and empirical objectives are grounded in a single research question: how did the Swedish state govern its territory and population during the pandemic? To answer this question, various public documents and 17 interviews serve as data. I study the politics of the pandemic by studying different tactics, such as state propaganda, self-government, the law and the formal mobilization of society, thereafter studying the two tiers of the Swedish state’s strategy, discussing how ‘dangerous’ bodies were handled in formal and informal ways, and how the border was open and closed, so to reveal the manner which the Swedish state refused to implement a full lockdown strategy, by instead going for, not a liberal strategy per se, but a two-tiered one where parts of society was governed in a liberal manner, and some, in an interventionist one, using Foucault and Mann’s different theoretical arsenals while keeping a focus upon the agency of the state throughout the chapter.