The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

— Pierre Stephen Robert Payne The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

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