| PLUTOCRATIC | Describes a government ruled by the wealthy (11) |
| PLUTOCRACY | Ruled by the wealthy |
| MATRIARCHY | A system of government ruled by a woman or women (10) |
| PAPALSTATES | Area ruled by the Pope up to 1870 |
| AFGHANISTAN | State formerly ruled by the Taliban |
| OPULENT | The lone get put out by the wealthy (7) |
| DIAMONDS | Suit worn by the wealthy |
| SCORPIO | Second of the three water signs of the zodiac, ruled by the planet Mars and the dwarf planet Pluto (7) |
| ARIES | The first sign of the zodiac, ruled by the planet Mars (5) |
| VATICAN | ___ City, city-state ruled by the Pope and officially established by the Lateran Treaty (7) |
| FLORENCE | Once ruled by the Medici family, the capital of Tuscany, site of the Uffizi Gallery (8) |
| CAPRICORN | Zodiacal constellation covering the period of December 22 to January 20 the following year, ruled by the planet Saturn (9) |
| GEMINI | Called The Twins, third sign of the zodiac, ruled by the planet Mercury (6) |
| MONEGASQUE | A native of the European microstate ruled by the House of Grimaldi (10) |
| TAURUS | Second sign of the zodiac, ruled by the planet Venus (6) |
| MONACO | Tiny state bordered by France and ruled by the Grimaldi family (6) |
| LIBYANS | They are ruled by the Leader and Guide of the Revolution |
| OMNIA | A desert theocracy ruled by the Cenobiarch in Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe |
| MOROCCO | North African country, virtually the only Arab country never to be fully ruled by the Ottomans (7) |
| APASSAGETOINDIA | Novel by English author E.M. Forster, set in 1920s India when it was ruled by the British Raj (1,7,2,5) |
