Necrocracy

Quick meaning: Necrocracy is a noun meaning (political science) A form of government imposed by those who have since died.

Meaning

(political science) A form of government imposed by those who have since died.

More Meanings

1. A form of government where a dead person is recognised as its head; usually a deceased former leader.
2. (fantasy, science fiction) A government ruled by the undead.

Example Sentences

Iran might still become a democracy, but it would also be a necrocracy: government of, by and for the dead.

What we call democracy, therefore, is to a considerable extent necrocracy, or a form of government by the graveyards. Old precepts and phrases are handed down from one generation to another; they become part of a nation's heritage […]

The last king of Wanga Mukulu, Nabongo Rapando Lutomia, died in 1936; and the kingdom remained a necrocracy for seventy-three years until 2009 when his son, Prince Japheth William Wambani Rapando (1921–2012), was formally crowned nabongo.

The denomination of the 1985 Tito banknote was 5,000 dinars. It appeared in the era of advanced “necrocracy,” the rule of the dead President, at a time when the country's political leadership wanted to solidify his memory and associate themselves with “the greatest son of the Yugoslav peoples and nationalities.”

Word Forms

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Synonyms for necrocracy

Depending on context, synonyms include thanatocracy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mortocracy, necrology, obituary, necromancy, necrohipposadism, gouvernance.

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