Why this word is great
XENOCRACY — [Noun] Government or rule by foreigners. From the combining form xeno- (from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos), meaning "foreign, strange") + -cracy (from Ancient Greek -κρατία (-kratía), from κράτος (krátos), meaning "power, rule"). Unlike "colonialism," which implies a project of settlement and economic possession, or "hegemony," which suggests a more diffuse, often consensual dominance, xenocracy is the stark, administrative fact of alien authority. It is the unfamiliar script on the civic edict, the foreign cadence in the magistrate's voice, and the imported standard hanging limp in the humid, native air—the profound dissonance of being governed by those who do not share your history, your gods, or your ghosts. One obeys not a tyrant, but a system whose logic is forever elsewhere.