-crat, -cracy, -cratic, -cratism, -cratically, -cracies +

1. A government characterized by rampant greed and corruption.
2. A ruling body or order of thieves; a government run by thieves; a nation ruled by this kind of government.

A government ruled by judges.

Judgments in a kritocracy are arrived at by the personal opinions of the judges.

A government by judges; the governmental rule of judges in which they reach “desirable results” that fit some particular social philosophy.

1. A system of government in which words are the ruling power; that is, words, words, WORDS; signifying nothing!
2. A community or system of government in which words are the ruling powers.

Government or dominance of society by the mediocre.

1. Government by people who are selected on the basis of merit in a competitive educational system.
2. A government made up of an influential class of educated people.
3. An elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth.
4. A system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement instead of personal influences.

Government by, or from, the middle classes.

1. A form of social order where women are in charge and are recognized as the heads of families, with power, lineage, and inheritance passing, where possible, from mothers to daughters.
2. Any community, society, or social group that is based on matriarchy.
3. Any form of organization or government where women have power.

1. A government of a mother or mothers (or women).
2. Matriarchy; that form of social organization in which the mother, and not the father, is the head of the family, and in which descent and relationship are reckoned through mothers and not through fathers.

1. The rule of the mob, government by a mob.
2. The “mob” or lowest class as a ruling body.
3. A ruling or politically supreme mob.

1. A person who advocates government by the mob.
2. A member of a mobocracy.

Government by a single person; autocracy.

1. A government run by amateurs.
2. Government by new or inexperienced officials.
3. A government administered untried officials.

A system of government based on a legal code; the rule of law in a community.

Government by the mob or lowest of the people; mob-rule.