Why this word is great
COTTONOCRACY — [Noun] A government or ruling class dominated by the cotton industry, particularly in the United States before the American Civil War. From cotton (referring to the cotton plant or its trade) + -o- (connective) + -cracy ("rule" or "government"). Unlike "plutocracy" (which denotes rule by the wealthy broadly) or "aristocracy" (which implies hereditary nobility), "cottonocracy" is power distilled through the white gold of the antebellum South. It is the ledger books fat with unpaid labor, the hushed deals in mahogany-paneled rooms where human lives were collateral, and the silent fields stretching to the horizon, their bounty built on stolen breath. A system where wealth was measured in bales, and freedom was just another commodity.