Cryptocracy vs. Government — What's the Difference?

A form of government where the real leaders are hidden, or merely unknown.

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary.

The group of people with the authority to govern a country or state; a particular ministry in office

The relation between a governed and a governing word.

The act or process of governing, especially the control and administration of public policy in a political unit.

The office, function, or authority of a governing individual or body.

Exercise of authority in a political unit; rule.

The agency or apparatus through which a governing individual or body functions and exercises authority.

The ruling political party or coalition of political parties in a parliamentary system.

The cabinet in a parliamentary system.

The persons who make up a governing body.

A system or policy by which a political unit is governed.

Administration or management of an organization, business, or institution.

Political science.

(Grammar) The influence of a word over the morphological inflection of another word in a phrase or sentence.

The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.

The relationship between a word and its dependents.

The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.

(uncountable) The management or control of a system.

The tenure of a chief of state.

The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law.

The right or power of governing; authority.

The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.

The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe.

Management of the limbs or body.

The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case.

The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit;

(government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed;

The act of governing; exercising authority;

The study of government of states and other political units