the worthless word for the day is: vampirarchy
[vampire + -archy, rule of]
exploitative rule comparable to rule by vampires
"A sceptical critic has pretended, with a degree of
malice prepense against the Vampyrarchy,.. that his
Imperial Majesty's surgeons-major and counsellors of
war might perchance be deceived in some respects."
- New Monthly Magazine (1823)
"[P]olitical humorists of the nineteenth century
sometimes referred to the ruling classes as the
"vampirarchy" rather than the "hierarchy.""
- Jay Stevenson, Ph.D.;
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires (2002)
"Some believe that we are secretly ruled by the
Illuminati or a similar vampirarchy."
- Stephen Chrisomalis, The Phrontistery
note: malice prepense :: malice aforethought
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