Why this word is great
HYDRARCHY — [Noun] A system of governance, law, and social order established and practiced among pirates at sea. From the Greek hydōr- (stem of ὕδωρ, "water") and -arkhia ("rule, government"). Unlike "anarchy," which posits a vacuum of order, or "hierarchy," which imposes a rigid, top-down chain of command, hydrarchy is the deliberate, bottom-up creation of rules for those who live outside all rule. It is the Articles signed in cramped quarters below deck, the equitable division of plunder weighted for injury, and the captain’s authority absolute in chase yet subject to vote in council—a fleeting, defiant republic of rope and sail, proving that even in refusal of the world, humans cannot bear a vacuum of their own making.