pedantocracy

Etymology

From pedant + -ocracy.

pedantocracy means Government by pedants. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

Government by pedants.“[…] if we would not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy, this body must not engross all the occupations which form and cultivate the faculties required for the government of mankind.”