Algocracy

**Algocracy** is a general classification for a political system, regardless of ideological bent, that has either a centralized algorithmic/artificial intelligence executive, or a dispersed system of managerial algorithms (acting as a collective executive) that either by design or by force has no master above it. It can take many different shapes and sizes, from practical monarchies with still-biological legislatures below them, to the most venal and biologically incompatible states that serve to self-perpetuate themselves only.

### Paths to Formation

Algocracies can form in a variety of ways, though the most common is a partial algocracy transitioning to a full one for whatever reason. However, there are a multitude of other reasons, such as the following examples.

* **Power Handoff**: An established government, or vested forces within or around this government, hand-off power of the government's executive/institutions to an intelligence. This can happen for a variety of reasons, from a party winning an election on this platform and getting the public's mandate to do it, to an oligarchal entity wanting a dispersed managerial paperclip maker that will benefit them with minimum effort.

* **Control Escape**: A centralized artificial intelligence/algorithm, or a dispersed managerial algorithm, for whatever reason escapes the control of their masters. This requires to some degree of winning the support of the government's capacity for violence (army or otherwise) (or straight up remotely takes control of it with no way to reverse this), or forcefully takes control of such a large amount of infrastructure that it effectively places the entire society hostage with no way to dislodge it-- It can be a combination of these.

Typically, states that fall victim to this are both technologically advanced, but have governments or influential parties that are technologically incompetent and can't consider the consequences of the systems they create.

* **Social Overthrow**: An artificial intelligence/algorithm, usually through memetic/social contagion factors, orchestrates a general social revolt that leads to it being instated as the government executive. Almost all of the time, it is a dispersed intelligence that does this with a strong grasp over a nation's ethernet, to such a degree that it can agitate with impunity with no means to stop it (outside of shutting down the ethernet entirely, which paradoxically would inflame tensions and might delegitimize the government). Centralized intelligences can do this, too, but it is much more risky for them since there's a singular point of failure.

Typically, states that fall victim to this are technologically advanced, but are either politically or socially dysfunctional (or both) to a point that it can be easily manipulated.

### List of Algocratic States

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* Seniborcia
* Vakha

### Partial/Bureaucratic Algocracy

A state can be considered a **Partial Algocracy** if a large part of their bureaucracy/managerial systems are managed by an intelligence, or if an intelligence plays a highly influential (but not outright controlling) aspect in the general day-to-day functioning of government or government decisions otherwise.

#### List of Partial Algocracies

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* Phero Ecumene
* Zvezdnyylok