tellurocracies

Noun

tellurocracy (countable and uncountable, plural tellurocracies)

1. Dominance or supremacy due to military or commercial power on land.
   • Probably the United States has realized, a bit too late, that its stake on a pro-Pakistan regime in Afghanistan had been a mistake. Obviously, this was done not for the sake of stake itself: the strategic aim was to penetrate the Heartland. From the point of view of the tellurocracy versus...2000, Farhad Tolipov, “Geopolitical Stalemate in Afghanistan”, in Central Asia and the Caucasus
2. A state whose power derives from landbased military or commercial supremacy.
   • The "thalassocracy" here is the United States and its allies; the "tellurocracy" is Eurasia.2001, Rénéo Lukic, Michael Brint, Culture, politics, and nationalism in the age of globalization, →ISBN, page 103