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How to sign: a politically organized body of people under a single government
"the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land";
Similiar / Same: nation, res publica, body politic, country, state, land
Categories: political unit
Within this category: ally, city state, Dominion, Reich, rogue state, sea power, suzerain, world power
How to sign: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Similiar / Same: republic, democracy
Categories: form of government, political system
Within this category: parliamentary democracy, Weimar Republic
How to sign: a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another
Categories: global organization, international organisation, international organization, world organisation, world organization
Within this category: British Commonwealth