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klep toc ra cy [klep-tok-ruh-see]
  -noun, plural -cies
a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.

[Origin: 1815-20; klepto- (comb. form of Gk kléptés thief) + -cracy]