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> the country ended up in defacto anarchy for about a decade.

Kleptocracy, not anarchy.

>>CRConr+(OP)
Kleptocracy describes near to any any modern political system - "public service" could much more aptly be described as "self enrichment." So the term is neither particularly descriptive, nor relevant, in my opinion.

>>CRConr+(OP)
People use anarchy in one of two ways:

- Capital-A Anarchist "late stage liberalism", i.e. a system in which all coercive or hierarchial power structures have been dismantled, including capitalism, nationalism, and the monopoly on violence that is the bedrock of all nation states.

- As a shorthand for chaos and violence caused by an inability to enforce laws.

The latter is a sort of denigration of the former, but it's become so commonly used that people assume it without thinking. To be fair to people using the word this way, there are very few examples of functionally anarchist places that aren't hellholes[0].

[0] The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Administration_of_N... isn't explicitly capital-A Anarchist, but they also have adopted a lot of policies that Anarchists might like.