{
  "id": "country.political",
  "term": "country",
  "sense": "political",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "language",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "An area of space bounded by a boundary and containing a government and people.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "boundary.limit",
      "government.administrative",
      "people.social",
      "area.spatial",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "The boundary encloses a region of space, forming an area that contains both a governing body and a population.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "organized territorial jurisdiction",
      "collective political identity",
      "sovereign space"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "France is governed by the Fifth Republic constitution and patrols its borders with Frontex and national gendarmerie units.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1994 establishment of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia reorganized provinces into ethnically based regional states.",
      "domain": "politics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Singapore enforces strict immigration controls at Changi Airport, regulating entry under its sovereign border policy.",
      "domain": "geography"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "area.spatial",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "enables"
    },
    {
      "id": "government.administrative",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "britain.political",
    "england.political",
    "europe.region",
    "france.nation",
    "germany.political"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "countries",
    "country"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts 'area.spatial' and 'space.extent' to components, as the definition relies on them. Definition tightened to avoid redundancy and ensure alignment with components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-country.political"
}