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An autocracy is a political regime where a single individual - an autocrat - holds the power, qualified as personal and absolute power. The autocrat�s power covers all political, economic, social, and military power. In this political regime the autocrat is not subject to any legal or legislative or even constitutional restraints.�

These regimes are often maintained by the use of the military and police powers and they are sometimes overturned by popular rebellion or coup d��tat.�

An autocracy can be compared to a democracy, in which the majority of the people rule by the transfer of power to representatives or to an oligarchy, in which a minority of individuals rule. A dictatorship can be an autocracy, but a dictatorship can also be ruled by a group of people.�