List: Land

This article covers the relationship the government has with the lands it owns aka the degrees of autonomy and power local and subnational governments have in comparison to the central government.

Confederate
A confederation is a union of nations established for dealing with critical issues (defence, currency, trade, etc) and/or management of common interests, which has a central government acting as the safeguard and guarantor for all its members.

The main difference it has from federal states is that the central government’s laws are created and implemented with consensus from the member states, and the member states also have the right to maintain separate policies compared to the larger confederation, be it a separate military, currency or foreign relationship.

Federal
A federation is a union of states under a central federal government, where the self-governing status of the component states, as well as the division of power between them and the central government, is constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a unilateral decision, neither by the component states nor the federal government.

The main difference it has from confederations is that the component states usually lack sovereignty over their external affairs and thus aren’t considered independent states under international law. Even if they can exercise some level of autonomy over them, this level is usually specifically stated in federal law.

Countries

 * Flag of Ukrajinszyka Derzhava.png Ukrainian State

Imperial
An imperial state is an entity made up of many separate states or territories under the rule of a supreme authority of a sort. Usually, this authority governs the main territory of the empire called “metropoly”, which then exercises political control over the rest of the nation (called “colonies” or “peripheries”).

The main difference between this and other forms lies in the inequality between the metropoly and its colonies. This inequality can be different, ranging from forceful extraction of colonial resources for the sole benefit of the metropoly to discrimination of colonial subjects by the metropoly subjects.

Regionalized
Alternatively called “Regional”. A regionalized state is a type of state that is formally unitary but where a high degree of political power has been given to regional governments. These autonomous government bodies exercise a large degree of authority over local issues and in some cases over other forms of authority, such as lawmaking or tax-setting, but are officially either creations of or subservient to the central government.

Countries

 * Russian State

Stateless
Alternatively called “Anarchist”. Being “stateless” is a loaded term which may mean different things depending on what side of the political aisle you’re on, but it is still a good way to describe some of the areas of the world of Keine Zeit.

Similarly to “Anarchism” in the Idea list, statelessness can mean three things:
 * 1) This is a territory ruled by localized voluntary institutions instead of a centralized authority.
 * 2) This is a situation of complete and total collapse of all authority in a region as a result of either mismanagement or the previously existing government being destroyed, precipitating what amounts to a societal collapse.
 * 3) This is a description of a geographical area which have never been organized into a nation-state.

Other parts of the description will provide a fuller explanation of what exactly this term represents.

Unitary
A unitary state is governed by a central government as the supreme authority over all matters. Unlike other types listed here, there are either no regional subdivisions at all, or they’re created by the central government and exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate.

Lists:

 * Introduction to Politics
 * List: Idea
 * List: Economy
 * List: Ruler