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| 8809853779 | Anocracy | A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types | 0 | |
| 8809855714 | Autocracy | A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people | 1 | |
| 8809858808 | Balance of Power | A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries | 2 | |
| 8809861803 | Boundary | An invisible line that marks the extent of a states territory | 3 | |
| 8809861804 | City-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside | 4 | |
| 8809866524 | Colonialism | An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory | 5 | |
| 8809866525 | Colony | A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent | 6 | |
| 8809866526 | Compact state | A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly | 7 | |
| 8809869426 | Democracy | A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office | 8 | |
| 8809869427 | Elongated state | A state with a long, narrow shape | 9 | |
| 8809869428 | Federal state | An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government | 10 | |
| 8809872325 | Fragmented state | A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory | 11 | |
| 8809872326 | Frontier | A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control | 12 | |
| 8809875160 | Gerrymandering | The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power | 13 | |
| 8809875161 | Landlocked state | A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea | 14 | |
| 8809877264 | Microstate | A state that encompasses a very small land area | 15 | |
| 8809877265 | Multi-ethnic state | A state that contains more than one ethnicity | 16 | |
| 8809879781 | Multinational state | A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities | 17 | |
| 8809879782 | Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality | 18 | |
| 8809882261 | Perforated state | A state that completely surrounds another one | 19 | |
| 8809882262 | Prorupted state | An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension | 20 | |
| 8809885824 | Self-determination | The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves | 21 | |
| 8809885825 | Sovereignty | Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states | 22 | |
| 8809888847 | State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs | 23 | |
| 8809888848 | Unitary state | An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials | 24 |
