a state or country run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens, as coined in 1829 by English author Thomas Love Peacock (also see Paul Gosnold, 1644)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon:
“To be governed is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied on, directed, law driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled ...by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.”
Kakistocracy