heterarchy

Etymology
; equivalent to Katharevousa / Dimotiki

Noun

 * 1)  The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
 * Despite installing puppet governments in the marches, the subjects of the empire’s conquered territories were still very conscious of living under heterarchy.
 * 1)  An example of this government.
 * The proposed liberation of our largely undeveloped economy goes too far — the resulting foreign dominance of our markets would make us a heterarchy.
 * 1) A system of organization where the elements of the organization are unranked (non-hierarchical) or where they possess the potential to be ranked a number of different ways.
 * When a group operates as a heterarchy, everyone is a leader in their own domain.