anarchy

Pronunciation: US [ˈænərki] UK [ˈænə(r)ki]

Synonyms

n.	1. a situation in which people are behaving in a way that ignores normal rules and laws, and are unable to be controlled 2. a situation in which there is no government or no social control in a country

Without sovereigns, true sovereigns, temporal and spiritual, I see nothing possible but an anarchy; the hatefullest of things.
Source: Carlyle
Meanwhile the country, lacking any accepted government, slipped towards anarchy.
Source: C. V. Wedgwood
Anarchy The organisation of society on the basis of voluntary cooperation, and especially without the agency of political institutions, i.e. the state.
Source: G. K. Roberts