state
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A state is an organized community of people living together under a system of government that makes and enforces rules for the group. States can exist as independent countries, as parts of larger countries, or as members of federal systems, and they matter because they provide the structure and authority needed to manage shared life at a large scale.
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- nation state
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- embassy
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A state is a political entity that regulates society and the population within a definite territory, or in other words, it is referred to as the country itself with various administrative divisions. Governments are considered as an apparatus, representative, or instrument of states as such the term is used as a metonym for them in governmental topics.
A state may be a unitary state or some type of federal union; in the latter type, the term "state" is sometimes used to refer to the federated polities that make up the federation, and they may have some of the attributes of a sovereign state, except being under their federation and without the same capacity to act internationally. (Other terms that are used in such federal systems may include "province", "region" or other terms.)