{
  "id": "germany.political",
  "term": "germany",
  "sense": "political",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "geography",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a country that has its own government and its own boundaries",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "country.political",
      "government.administrative",
      "boundary.limit"
    ],
    "interaction": "its government governs the people within its boundaries",
    "novel_properties": [
      "national identity",
      "shared laws"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Germany reunified in 1990, merging East and West under one constitution and federal government.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The European Union's 2022 energy policy negotiations involved Germany as a sovereign bloc with defined territorial jurisdiction.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Germany's Basic Law established a federal parliamentary system at its founding in 1949, recognized internationally by the Allied powers.",
      "domain": "law"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "country.political",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a political entity"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "germany"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-germany.political"
}