# national (political)

about a people set and the place they occupy

- Computed level: L9 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: adjective  ·  Arena: national

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [groups](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groups.collection), [world](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-world.place), [occupied](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-occupied.spatial), [sets](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sets.grouped), [space](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-space.extent)

**Through:** people are grouped with a place to make a set

**Novel properties:**
- co-located sovereignty
- shared territorial identity
- bounded political membership

## Examples
- The United States Census counts residents every ten years to redistribute congressional seats. *(institutions)*
- The Schengen Agreement allows passport-free travel among 26 European countries, defining a shared national border policy. *(politics)*
- India's 1947 Partition displaced over 14 million people along newly drawn national boundaries. *(history)*

## Used by
- [american](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-american.national) (L10)

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