Technocracy
Government by technologically superior elite.

For example a mostly primitive or microtech polity may be ruled by a nanotech elite, or a nanotech enable society ruled by a magtech elite.

In as much as most ai overlords and administrators are sometimes several levels more technologically advanced then the sentients under them, technocracy is a common form of government throughout the Civilized Galaxy.
 
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Text by M. Alan Kazlev

Initially published on 31 December 2007.