Despotism

A system of government in which the state is ruled by a single person or a minority group of people that centralizes absolute power, usually without any kind of separation of powers. Sometimes the rulers hold a personal guard or secret police, which are separate from the rest of the security forces and are under their sole control. The government is usually one-party (or has no parties at all), with the ruling party concentrating all centers of power, and other parties being outlawed, and persecuted by those in power.