A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy.
A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the branches of government are separate.
One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.
A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).
The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy representing their separate divided lands within the state and their low aristocracy representing their separate divided fiefs.