▸ noun mainly humorous a 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.
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 behaviour (forwarding them to us was an act of idiocy).