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| Government Forms I have mentioned that I am going through old files, seeing what is what and so on and so forth, and as part of that, I found this list of government forms. Not sure where I got it from, but this could help those writing fantasy, speculative fiction, alternative history or even some other genres. Now, as a word nerd, etymologically-minded folks should note the difference between the suffix '-archy', meaning 'rulership', and '-cracy', meaning 'power', which both come from Greek roots. It is subtle, but when these terms were coined, that difference meant something. “Rule by” and “power given to” or “power in” are very subtle. Anywho, here are a heap of different forms of government: anarchy: government by none androcracy: government by men (males) aristocracy: government by the nobility biarchy: rule by two individuals (aka diarchy) bureaucracy: power resides in civil servants cryptarchy: secret rule decarchy: government by ten individuals democracy: government by the people ecclesiarchy: government by a council of priests ergatocracy: government by the workers or the working class exarchy: government by bishops geriatocracy: government reserved for the elderly or very old (aka gerontocracy) gynaecocracy: government by women (females) (aka gynarchy) hagiarchy: rule by saints or holy persons hagiocracy: government by holy men hecatontarchy: government by one hundred people heptarchy: government by seven people hierocracy: government by priests or religious ministers kakistocracy: government by the worst kritarchy: government by judges matriarchy: government by women or mothers or the eldest females meritocracy: government by the meritorious militocracy: government by military leaders monarchy: government by an absolute ruler (aka autarchy) monocracy: rulership by one individual (aka autocracy) (note the subtle difference: one is rule by an absolute, the other is an individual has the power, but is not absolute) nomocracy: rule of law; government based only on a legal system ochlocracy: rule by mobs octarchy: government by eight people oligarchy: government by the few pantarchy: government by all the people; world government paparchy: government by the pope patriarchy: government by older men or fathers pentarchy: government by five individuals physiocracy: government according to natural laws or principles plutocracy: rulership by the wealthy (aka chrysoaristocracy) polyarchy: government by many people ptochocracy: rule of beggars or paupers; wholesale pauperization sociocracy: government by society as a whole stratocracy: military rule that is despotism technocracy: government by technical experts; in modern times, rule by computers tetrarchy: government by four people thearchy: rule by a god or gods; body of divine rulers theocracy: government by priests or by religious law timocracy: government by the propertied class triarchy: government by three people Long list, but I hope it helps someone. |
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