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| 9637023377 | Anocracy | A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic but rather displays a mix of the two types Ex: Cambodia displays both democratic and autocratic aspects | 0 | |
| 9637023378 | Autocracy | A country that is run according to the interest of the ruler rather than the people Ex: Belarus | 1 | |
| 9637023379 | Balance of power | A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries Ex: Until the atomic bomb was developed, The Allies and Axis Powers were at a relative balance | 2 | |
| 9637023380 | Boundary | An invisible line the marks the extent of its state's territory Ex: |  | 3 |
| 9637025361 | City-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding Countryside Ex: Vatican City | 4 | |
| 9637025362 | Colonialism | An attempt by one country to its political economic and cultural principles and another territory Ex: The British Colonies in America | 5 | |
| 9637025363 | Colony | A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent Ex: Massachusetts under British rule during the 17th and 18th Centuries | 6 | |
| 9637025364 | Compact state | A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly Ex: Poland |  | 7 |
| 9637027481 | Democracy | A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office Ex: The United States | 8 | |
| 9637027482 | Elongated state | A state with a long narrow shape Ex: Chile |  | 9 |
| 9637027483 | Federal state | An internal organization of a state that allocates strong power to units of local government Ex: The United States | 10 | |
| 9637029243 | Fragmented state | A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory Ex: The Philippines |  | 11 |
| 9637029244 | Frontier | Zone separating two states and which exercises political control Ex: Antartica | 12 | |
| 9637029245 | Gerrymandering | The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power Ex: When Elbridge Gerry was governor of Massachusetts, he redrew the districts in the state to benefit his party | 13 | |
| 9637029246 | Landlocked state | A state that does not have a direct outlets in the sea Ex: Bolivia |  | 14 |
| 9637031474 | Microstate | A state that encompasses a very small land area Ex: Swaziland |  | 15 |
| 9637031475 | Multiethnic state | Estate that contains more than one ethnicity Ex: The United States | 16 | |
| 9637031476 | Multinational state | A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agreed to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities Ex: The United Kingdom (UK) | 17 | |
| 9637033094 | Nation state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity Ex: There is no true nation-state left due to migration. However Japan is the best example | 18 | |
| 9637033095 | Perforated state | A state that completely surrounds another one Ex: South Africa is a perforated state because it surrounds Lesotho |  | 19 |
| 9637033096 | Prorupted state | An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension Ex: Thailand |  | 20 |
| 9637035356 | Self-determination | The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves Ex: The Kurds believe in self-determination which has resulted in the push for Kurdistan | 21 | |
| 9637035357 | Sovereignty | Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states Ex: The United States has sovereignty because it has complete control over its internal and external affairs without interference from any other state | 22 | |
| 9637035358 | State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs Ex: The United States | 23 | |
| 9637037398 | Terrorism | The systematic use of violence by a group calculated to create an atmosphere of fear and alarm among a population or to coerce a a government into actions it would not otherwise undertake or refrain from actions it wants to take Ex: Al-Quaeda committed acts of terrorism on 9/11 in order to voice their anger with the decisions the United States government had made | 24 | |
| 9637037399 | Unitary state | An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials Ex: France | 25 |
