Tyranny refers to a despotically ruled state or society. While in the despotically ruled nation Mozombia, Metamorpho is subdued and dissassembled. Her father, a wealthy jeweler, was a strong-willed man who ruled his family despotically. By the early 1850s, Belzu dispensed with any pretense of democratic norms and ruled despotically. By all accounts, Nadezhda von Meck was imperious by nature, presiding over her household despotically. In her time, a small elite ruled despotically over a downtrodden slave race. These policies were declared despotically, but enforced only through a strong infrastructural presence. In order to man and equip this fleet he treated the Greek city-states despotically.