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A state run by a single, all-powerful ruler
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GPT-5 mini
That is an autocracy — a system of government in which a single person holds unchecked, concentrated power. Other common labels with slightly different connotations include:
- Dictatorship: a modern autocracy, often seized or maintained by force.
- Absolute monarchy: a hereditary autocracy where a monarch has near‑total authority.
- Totalitarian regime: an autocracy that seeks total control over public and private life, usually with a guiding ideology.
- Tyranny/despotism: pejorative terms for oppressive single‑ruler rule.
Examples: Louis XIV (absolute monarchy), Saddam Hussein (dictatorship), North Korea (totalitarian dictatorship).
- Dictatorship: a modern autocracy, often seized or maintained by force.
- Absolute monarchy: a hereditary autocracy where a monarch has near‑total authority.
- Totalitarian regime: an autocracy that seeks total control over public and private life, usually with a guiding ideology.
- Tyranny/despotism: pejorative terms for oppressive single‑ruler rule.
Examples: Louis XIV (absolute monarchy), Saddam Hussein (dictatorship), North Korea (totalitarian dictatorship).