▸nounmainly humorousa society or group that is controlled by or consists of people of low intelligence:
the people in our current idiocracy deserve whatever they will get.
– ORIGIN 1960s : blend of idiot and -cracy; in later use popularized by the 2006 film Idiocracy.
Idiocracy is sometimes confused with idiocy. An idiocracy is a society or group controlled by people of low intelligence (we have turned into an idiocracy) while idiocy refers to extremely stupid behavior (forwarding them to us was an act of idiocy).