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* Literary example: A pair of novels by [[Lawrence Watt-Evans]], ''The Cyborg and the Sorcerers'' and ''The Wizard and the War Machine'', are set on an [[After the End]] planet where [[Psychic Powers]] are [[Functional Magic|considered magic]], whose countries are all ruled by mutant Magocracies. Yet each nation's government is different; some good, some bad, some outright incompetent.
** Another Watt-Evans book, ''A Young Man Without Magic'', uses this trope in a fantasy setting. Children found to have magical talent are automatically elevated to the nobility, and it's a capital crime for anyone else to practice magic. The non-magician emperor is more or less a figurehead. The government is mostly functional but corrupt; sorcerers have so much power that they can get away with openly using spells powered by human sacrifice.
* Though they seem mostly unconcerned with [[Muggle]] affairs unless someone offers them money or messes with one of their own, the Bondsmagi of Scott Lynch's ''[[Gentleman Bastard]]'' series
* In Brandon Sanderson's ''[[Mistborn]]'' series, the titular Mistborn sorcerers are supposed to be restricted to the ranks of the nobility. However, illegal interbreeding between classes has resulted in the power cropping up among the peasant race here and there.
* There [[Iron Council|are passing references]] to a nation called "The Witchocracy" in [[China Mieville]]'s ''[[Bas-Lag Cycle|Bas-Lag]]'' series, but it hasn't been explored in any great detail.
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* In ''[[The Seventh Tower]]'', the Chosen are a society of mages dominated by the most powerful magic users and those who have the best [[Bond Creatures|Spiritshadows]] {{spoiler|though it turns out they're actually being ruled behind the scenes by Sharrakor, the most powerful Spiritshadow, who is ''quite'' free-willed}}. Those who don't have magic are called Underfolk, and are a servant caste little better than slaves. From the same books, the [[Proud Warrior Race|Icecarls]] don't have a central government ''per se'', but the closest thing to it would be the Crones, who are somewhere between priestesses, shamans, and mages.
* In the ''[[Riftwar Cycle]]'', the Tsurani Great Ones were above the law, literally able to give any order to just about anyone, with the only people able to override them being the Emperor or a larger group of Great Ones countermanding the previous order. Despite this, they did not actually run the government, though many dabbled in politics. Their status as being above the law ended when Mara of the Acoma demanded that they either run the government themselves (After providing evidence to the entire Empire that they ''can'' be outmaneuvered) or stop interfering with the people who were. They ultimately declined to turn the Empire into a Magocracy because they had a hard enough time just governing themselves.
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