Governments represent states {state, nation} {nation, state}. States are geographic areas with autonomous governments that enforce laws and protect public health, safety, and morals.
types
States can be democracies, republics, kingdoms, aristocracies, empires, meritocracies, dictatorships, or totalitarian states.
protections
States protect health by children's programs, hospitals, and research support. They protect safety with army, police, and courts. They control crime within state, prevent war from without state, and prevent rebellion within state. States protect morals by regulating gambling, drug use, animal cruelty, pornography, prostitution, and sodomy, to prevent harm to people and to set tone of social life.
force
States maintain order in territory and use force, if necessary, to cause obedience to authority and law. States must have majority of force within borders. States can control people and their behaviors. States try to preserve themselves against outside forces, typically from other states.
recognition
Other nations recognize states and/or governments. Recognition by other states can be in fact {de facto, recognition} or by law {de jure, recognition}. In civil war, other states can recognize both parties as belligerents.
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