Satrap
Satraps were the governors of the provinces of the ancient Median and Achaemenid (Persian) Empires and in several of their successors, such as the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires.
The word satrap is also often used metaphorically in modern literature to refer to world leaders or governors who are heavily influenced by larger world superpowers or hegemonies and act as their surrogates.
Etymology
The word "satrap" originates ultimately (via Ancient Greek and Latin) from Old Persian xšaçapāvan ("protector of the province"), Sanskrit kshatrapam (क्षत्रपम्) or kshtrapa, from xšaça ("realm" or "province") and pāvan ("protector"). In Greek, the word was rendered as satrápēs (σατράπης)—which later borrowed into Latin as satrapes—from a Western Iranian cognate xšaθrapā(van). In modern Persian the descendant of xšaθrapāvan is shahrbān (شهربان), but the components have undergone semantic shift so the word now means "town keeper" (shahr [شهر] meaning "town" + bān [بان] meaning "keeper").
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Satrap
by: Gaia Epicus[words & music by Thomas C. Hansen]
No more time to waste
Let's fly into space
Crossing the universe
I can see the star light
With the speed of light
We will fly tonight
Looking for unknown lands
The future is out there somewhere
We fly so high across the sky
A million light years away I hear you cry
Let the journey begin
Fly away with the wind
Spread your wings
Leave your worries behind
All that you see is reality
So welcome to the cyber future
Time is running out
Faith is all we've got
If we find this place
We can save the human race
One more mile to go
Then we'll know for sure
If the end has come for us
Or we will get our victory
A fire is burning in the sky
Is this the end of you and I ?
Take my hand and let us pray
That we survive one more day
I have read it in the sand
The prophecy is in your hand
The cyber world is coming fast
I wonder how long we will last ?
Cyber, Cyber future, so little time to undo this crime