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A sovereign '''state''' is a [[political]] association with effective [[sovereignty]] over the geographic area of a given population. A state usually includes the set of institutions that claim the [[authority]] to make the rules that govern the people of the [[society]] in that territory, though its [[status]] as a state often depends in part on being recognized by a number of other states as having internal and external sovereignty over it.

A sovereign '''state''' is a [[political]] association with effective [[sovereignty]] over the geographic area of a given population. A state usually includes the set of institutions that claim the [[authority]] to make the rules that govern the people of the [[society]] in that territory, though its [[status]] as a state often depends in part on being recognized by a number of other states as having internal and external sovereignty over it.