Feudal Anarchy... I'm pretty sure that's what's going on here in India.

Actually, I think it might be a hereditary mobocracy.

I think you might be right.

Constitutional theocracy sounds like a good description of how most (non-radical) religions work these days.

It is fashionable, from time to time, among those with rose-colored rear-view mirrors, to consider the US a former provisional meritocracy. :)

I chuckled.

Don't forget Hippocracy, as seen in the Heralds of Valdemar books.

There were points in the history of England where it was arguably ruled by Hereditary mobocracy. Overall, this is a very amusing list.

Just been linked back to this. I think most countries which have had a revolution are at least nominally provisional meritocracies for the first while. Then again, many switch to democracies or autocracies of one stripe or another quite quickly.

Argocracy: Rule by the unemployed.

Hoplolithocracy: Rule by whoever pulls the sword out of the stone.

Hoploballocracy: Rule by whoever the watery tart throws the sword to.

Re: Constitutional theocracy, in traditional Chinese religion, when the local gods are doing a lousy job, the community can get together and perform a ceremony to vote them out of office in favor of a better deity.