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Noocracy (noun) means a system of government run by intelligent or wise people.

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A system of government run by intelligent or wise people.

"Similar to Plato’s “government of the wise,” a noocracy would be, in the words of “biosphere” popularizer Vladimir Vernadsky, “a social and political system based on the priority of the human mind.”" — George Dvorsky, 12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World (2014)

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