Why this word is great
FRAILOCRACY — [Noun] The excessive socio-political and economic dominance of Spanish Catholic friars in colonial Philippines, criticized by the Filipino intelligentsia in the late 19th century. A partial calque of Philippine Spanish frailocracia, from fraile ("friar") + -o- (connective) + -cracia ("-cracy", denoting rule or government), it names a system where cassocks held more power than crowns. Unlike "theocracy" (which implies divine governance) or "colonialism" (which disperses oppression across institutions), frailocracy was the slow suffocation of a people under the thumb of men who wielded rosaries like writs and confessionals like courtrooms. It was the rustle of a friar’s habit in the corridors of power, the unpaid labor of farmers tilling mission lands, and the silent rage of ilustrados penning manifestos by lamplight—a system where salvation and subjugation wore the same habit, and the holiest of garments hid the cruelest of chains.