A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
Confusion in general; disorder.
Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
A lack of law and order; anarchy.
Defiance of the law; outlawry, exorbitant levels of crime.