A mageocracy like the Setharii Empire was probably not the most efficient of governments, but nobody else could ever dream of controlling the hundreds of Gifted throughout the empire.
Minn-O grew visibly calmer and, generously peppering her speech with words from her world, she began to tell me about the mageocracy, the ruling families and the twelve directories.
2020, Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir, Dragon Age: Blue Wraith, back cover blurb:
With the fanatical Qunari seeking to topple the Tevinter mageocracy, the Inquisition sends some of their best agents to retrieve a powerful elven relic before the Tevinter magisters can unleash it to devastating effect.
2021, Russell Zimmerman, Shadowrun: On the Rocks, unnumbered page:
“Everyone in Seattle, hell, everyone in the Tír, has seen how he talks to you. Him, a mundane, ordering you around?” The mageocracy rhetoric didn't come easily to me, but it came when I needed it. I knew what buttons to push.