{
  "id": "nation.political",
  "term": "nation",
  "sense": "political",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "nation",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a group of people who have a government and live within a bounded area",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "government.administrative",
      "area.spatial",
      "boundary.limit",
      "live.biological"
    ],
    "interaction": "people interact with a government to collectively inhabit and maintain identity within a shared, bounded area",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sovereign jurisdiction",
      "collective political identity",
      "territorial continuity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "India operates a parliamentary democracy with defined borders since 1947, governing over 1.4 billion people.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The United States federal government administered relief funds across 50 states during the 2020 pandemic.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Japan maintains sovereignty over its four main islands and thousands of smaller ones under a constitutional monarchy.",
      "domain": "geography"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "country.political",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "british.national",
    "washington.city"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "nation",
    "nations"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added 'boundary.limit' and 'live.biological' to properly ground the definition; these were implied but missing in the emergence record. Kept definition unchanged as it accurately reflects the concept "
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-nation.political"
}