# nation (political)

a group of people who have a government and live within a bounded area

- Computed level: L11 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: emergence  ·  Arena: nation

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [government](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-government.administrative), [area](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-area.spatial), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [live](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-live.biological)

**Through:** 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
- India operates a parliamentary democracy with defined borders since 1947, governing over 1.4 billion people. *(institutions)*
- The United States federal government administered relief funds across 50 states during the 2020 pandemic. *(economics)*
- Japan maintains sovereignty over its four main islands and thousands of smaller ones under a constitutional monarchy. *(geography)*

## Used by
- [british](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-british.national) (L17)
- [washington](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-washington.city) (L12)

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