A government led by pants-wearing individuals? Um, no.
Pantisocracy
n. government by all equally; anarchistic community. pantisocratic, a.
Usage: If this country was a pantisocracy, we would sell a lot of guns.
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That wouldn't appply to us anyway. It's been painfully obvious for years that our emperor has no clothes.
Doesn't the pan- prefix mean "everything"?
Ah, according to Wiki, "as a prefix means involving all members of that group". Hence, pantophobia is a fear of everything, and not of children's Christmas entertainments in British theatres.
Bob