1. A reference to a government by the army; military rule; a polity in which the army is the controlling power: For Valerie, it was scary to think that a country could be stratocratic and be under the rules of the armed forces.
2. A description relating to a government or the rule by the state alone: In the book Kitty read, a stratocratic administration was under the power of the state or country and not controlled by ecclesiastical power in any way.