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How about thyridarchy 'despotic rule by Windows™? Or eunucharchy 'rule by Unix'?


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thyridarchy 'despotic rule by Windows™? Or eunucharchy 'rule by Unix'?

and "macracy"?



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macracy

And after the melomachy, the melocracy.


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you sayin' I'm bein' cheeky?



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Aristocracy but not a polloicracy. Makes sense when you think about it.



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Polloicracy?? Hoi, that's rule by chickens!


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Aristocracy but not a polloicracy.

Surely that's covered by democracy. But if you want to coin a word, drop the jot. Pollocracy, pollarchy?


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polloicracy

hoi!



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hoi ha!

I think N.Amer is headed for corpochracy. Hmmm to much like corpse. How about corporatocracy? (either way there are skeletons in the closet.)


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Said a man born of aristocracy,
“I abhor the thought of ptochocracy!
But the propertied class
Has elected this ass
and now we’re stuck with kakistocracy.”



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