Rome was an oligarchic republic which gradually into an autocratic empire.

a politically deeply entrenched oligarchy of giant multinational firms.

The United States is now, in effect, an oligarchy.

The entire Western world is a neo-fascist oligarchy.

In essence, "our Democracy has become an Oligarchy.

The fourth type of Organized Government was an Oligarchy.

We live in an oligarchy, a global oligarchy, which isn't constrained much by the normal "democratic" process of voting.

An oligarchy is a power structure that allows a few businesses, families, or individuals to rule a country.

Athens was fundamentally a democracy; Sparta was an oligarchy.

There’s only one form of government : oligarchy.

The Transformation of American Democracy to Oligarchy

We live in an oligarchy, a global oligarchy, which isn’t constrained much by the normal « democratic » process of voting.

This is a dictatorship: government by a few, an oligarchy.

The operation to take down the dark oligarchy is resuming.

So the nation is an oligarchy, and democracy is dead.