# Definitions

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Key concepts are simplified to use names with a common meaning for clear communication and discussion:

<table data-column-title-hidden data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th>Definition</th><th data-hidden>Description</th><th data-hidden></th><th data-hidden></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://app.gitbook.com/s/INsrlnfz3ZQakiEgvXEN/dictionary/public-service">Public Service</a></td><td>A service offered by the State and managed by the government to fulfill the needs of its citizens.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://app.gitbook.com/s/INsrlnfz3ZQakiEgvXEN/dictionary/constitution">Constitution</a></td><td>The set of principles by which a State is governed, especially in relation to the rights of the people it governs and the process for making rules.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="broken-reference">Norm</a></td><td>A behavior that has been encoded into a rule, law or regulation by the Community.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="broken-reference">Tradition</a></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="broken-reference">Custom</a></td><td>A belief that people within a Community have about what conduct is proper or improper, although there is no written Norm.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://app.gitbook.com/s/INsrlnfz3ZQakiEgvXEN/dictionary/culture">Culture</a></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_society"> Parallel Society</a></td><td>A self-organized society, usually an ethnic or religious minority, often but not always immigrant groups, with the intent of a reduced or minimal spatial, social, and cultural contact with the majority society into which they immigrated.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://app.gitbook.com/o/0gcIfR6h7zg1xTLArrpK/s/INsrlnfz3ZQakiEgvXEN/~/changes/88SoHWLz84DkqeRBjFoR/dictionary/passport">Passport</a></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://app.gitbook.com/s/INsrlnfz3ZQakiEgvXEN/dictionary/citizen/citizenship">Citizenship</a></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://app.gitbook.com/s/INsrlnfz3ZQakiEgvXEN/dictionary/state">State</a></td><td>A political organization of society, the body politic, or, more narrowly, the institutions of government. The State is a form of human association distinguished from other social groups by its purpose, the establishment of order and security; its methods, the laws and their enforcement; its territory, the area of jurisdiction or geographic boundaries; and finally by its sovereignty. The State values are defined in its Constitution.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://app.gitbook.com/s/INsrlnfz3ZQakiEgvXEN/dictionary/community">Community</a></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://app.gitbook.com/s/INsrlnfz3ZQakiEgvXEN/what-is-a-network-state/network-state">Network State</a></td><td>A highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that might crowdfund territory worldwide and eventually gain diplomatic recognition from pre-existing States.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://app.gitbook.com/s/INsrlnfz3ZQakiEgvXEN/dictionary/territory">Territory</a></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://app.gitbook.com/s/INsrlnfz3ZQakiEgvXEN/dictionary/government">Government</a></td><td>A group of people with the authority to govern a Country or State; a particular ministry in office.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://app.gitbook.com/s/INsrlnfz3ZQakiEgvXEN/dictionary/nation">Nation</a></td><td>A body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular territory. A Nation is visually represented with a flag.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://app.gitbook.com/s/INsrlnfz3ZQakiEgvXEN/dictionary/startup-society">Society</a></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://app.gitbook.com/s/INsrlnfz3ZQakiEgvXEN/dictionary/country">Country</a></td><td>A Nation with its government occupying a particular territory.</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>
