Definitions
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- noun A government that still operates under the rules of a former, dead leader.
Etymologies
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From necro- (“death”) + -cracy (“power, rule”)
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Examples
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Monsignor talked of unexplainable love, while Hitchens compared Jesus to Kim Jong Il, whose deceased father is actually still the official ruler of North Korea, making it a necrocracy.
Does Science Make God Obselete? Talia Page 2008
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Monsignor talked of unexplainable love, while Hitchens compared Jesus to Kim Jong Il, whose deceased father is actually still the official ruler of North Korea, making it a necrocracy.
Archive 2008-09-01 Talia Page 2008
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North Korea, as Christopher Hitchens puts it, is a necrocracy (government by the dead).
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