Timocracy

Timocracy is a government inwhich land ownership is a requirement to govern. Usually those with more land, have more power in such a state. The idea being that if you own a lot of land, you must be contributing with that land, for example one may use the land as a vineyard, ranch, or wheat field. The theory behind the system is that land is an accurate judge for how much one is contributing to the society. If you have land you are likely to develop that land into something useful. In this system wealth is not a nessisary factor to govern, thus it would be theoretically possible for someone to graduate into governance. However, if land can be inherited a class of people who have grown wealthy from produce, and considering the simple fact that their is only so much land to go around, will develop, thus transforming the state into a Plutocracy.