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| 8691618139 | Anocracy | A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the 2 types. | 0 | |
| 8691618140 | autocracy | A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people. | 1 | |
| 8691620427 | Balance of power | A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries. | 2 | |
| 8691626933 | Boundary | An invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory | 3 | |
| 8691628943 | City-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside. | 4 | |
| 8691635466 | Colonialism | An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. | 5 | |
| 8691642900 | Colony | A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent. | 6 | |
| 8691645546 | Compact state | A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly. | 7 | |
| 8691650162 | Democracy | A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office. | 8 | |
| 8691655600 | Elongated state | A state with a long, narrow shape. | 9 | |
| 8691659323 | Federal state | An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government. | 10 | |
| 8691671250 | Fragmented state | A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory. | 11 | |
| 8691677481 | Frontier | A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control. | 12 | |
| 8691683799 | Gerrymandering | The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. | 13 | |
| 8691689621 | Landlocked state | A state that does not have a direct outlet of the sea. | 14 | |
| 8691691954 | Microstate | A state that encompasses a very small land area. | 15 | |
| 8691695655 | Multiethnic state. | A state that contains more that one ethnicity. | 16 | |
| 8691721205 | 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 | |
| 8691736724 | Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. | 18 | |
| 8691744648 | Perforated state | A state that completely surrounds another one. | 19 | |
| 8691746781 | Prorupted state | An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension. | 20 | |
| 8691751937 | Self-determination | The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves. | 21 | |
| 8691762541 | Sovereignty | Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states. | 22 | |
| 8691767395 | State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs. | 23 | |
| 8691774079 | terrorism | The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or to coerce a government into granting its demands. | 24 | |
| 8691781919 | Unitary state | An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials. | 25 |
