Groups can be bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states {group types}.
Bands have 15 to 80 people, have kinship relations, are nomads, act by consensus, have no laws, and own land communally.
Tribes have hundreds of people, are kinship clans, live in villages, act by consensus, have few leaders, have no laws, and own land communally.
Chiefdoms have thousands of people, have different social classes, live in one or more villages, have top-down hereditary offices, have no laws, can pay tribute to others, hold land feudally, and have luxuries.
States have more than 50,000 people, live in villages and cities, have top-down bureaucracies, have laws, collect taxes, have private land, and have luxuries.
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