# britain (political)

a country that is land on an island and has a government

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: political  ·  Arena: britain

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [country](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-country.political), [island](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-island.geographic), [government](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-government.administrative)

**Through:** land together with government make a country

**Novel properties:**
- national identity
- combined sovereignty

## Examples
- The United Kingdom governed from Westminster after the Acts of Union in 1707 united England and Scotland. *(institutions)*
- Britain evacuated Dunkirk in 1940 under Operation Dynamo, rescuing 330,000 Allied soldiers. *(history)*
- The Isle of Wight, separated by the Solent, is part of Britain’s territorial boundary. *(geography)*

## Used by
- [british](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-british.national) (L17)
- [england](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-england.political) (L17)

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*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*