thanatocracy

noun5

1. •
   The carrying out of mass and organized killing as an official policy of a state.
2. •
   The enactment of policies held to lead, directly or indirectly, to death or an increased risk of death.
3. •
   Nominal governance by a dead person, through posthumous holding of an official position of authority, or by popular veneration and lasting influence of a personal ideology; necrocracy.
4. •
   A culture in which rituals relating to the dead play a unique or important role.

   • Exodus from Egypt means a departure from the thanatocracy where all our energies are expended on building the tombs of mummified eternal death. — 1978
5. •
   (figurative) Endemic stagnation or decay.