John Bull
Uncle Sam
Washington
Whitehall
bureaucracy
directorate
government
hierarchy
higher echelons
higher-ups
management
ministry
officialdom
prelacy
ruling class
ruling classes
régime
the Crown
the Establishment
the administration
the authorities
the government
the ingroup
the interests
the people upstairs
the power elite
the power structure
the top
them
they
top brass
polity
Downing Street
ancien r�gime
authoritarian regime
authoritarian state
court
empire
federal government
government-in-exile
local government
military government
palace
papacy
pontificate
pupet regime
puppet government
puppet state
royal court
state
state government
stratocracy
totalitarian state
totalitation regime
minorities
priorities
sororities