tyranny

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government by a ruler or small group of people who have unlimited power over the people in their country or state and use it unfairly and cruelly:

This, the president promised us, was a war against tyranny.

a situation in which someone or something controls how you are able to live, in an unfair way:

Women, the play seems to suggest, must resist the tyranny of domesticity.

unlimited authority or use of power, or a government which exercises such power without any control or limits