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A society ruled by wizards. Wizard'''s''', plural, that is—a king or queen who just happens to be a spellcaster doesn't count, nor does the traditional tower-dwelling [[Evil Overlord]]. This is a relatively normal society (for a given value of "normal") that is governed by a magic-using oligarchy. Sometimes there is a [[Muggles|Muggle]] figurehead on the throne, but clearly power lies with the spellcasters.
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* The Time-Space Administration Bureau in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' looks to fall into this mold at first, but there are subtle hints of a subversion in the form of Amy Linetta, who never demonstrates magical ability but is in a position of fairly high responsibility aboard the local [[Cool Ship]]. ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Striker S]]'' makes the subversion much more blatant, with numerous non-magically-able TSAB personnel featuring. These include an apparent [[Muggle]] commanding a battalion of mages and Regius Graz, head of the Ground Forces branch, is explicitly a [[Muggle]] who got his start with the Bureau as a good trainer. The TSAB appears to actually be very egalitarian, allowing those who can lead to lead regardless of whether they measure up in magical combat.
* In ''[[The Familiar of Zero]]'', magical power and nobility are (''officially'') inseparable; in fact, mages are called Nobles. Of course, that attitude becomes inconvenient when a noble is, say, cast out from their family or the child of two mages is born without magic.
* Both the Silver Millennium and its distant descendant Crystal Tokyo in ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' appear to be magocracies, ruled by the most powerful (or in the case of the latter, ''only'') mages in their respective cultures, by virtue of their power.
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* The Empire in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' trilogy, and various other Sith states in the [[Expanded Universe]]. In the [[Expanded Universe]], it's implied that the Emperor was shooting for being the immortal god-emperor of a magotheocratic empire. The Galactic Republic, on the other hand, is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a republic]], with the Jedi Council playing an advisory and military role—though note that in ''Revenge of the Sith'', Darth Sidious uses fear of a Jedi coup to force through his own takeover of the state.
** In most stories, the Jedi are essentially an [[NGO Superpower]]. Whether and to what extent they are actually answerable to the Republic (or it to them) is essentially [[Depending on the Writer]].
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