Political Entity
Basic:
A political entity is a type of geographical agent, legal agent, unnatural thing, and organization.
A political entity is a type of organization classified by entity.
Documentation:
Comment: A specialization of Organization and of LegalAgent and of GeographicalAgent ; instances of this collection control #$GeographicalRegions. Each instance of #$GeopoliticalEntity includes a governing body, but is more than just that governing body. <p> Important subcollections include Country, IndependentCountry, State-Geopolitical, City, and Province . Instances include CityOfTokyoJapan, BronxNY-Borough, Alaska-State, Rwanda, Singapore, #$InnerMongolia, Somerset-CountyEngland, and Taiwan-RepublicOfChina . <p> A central feature of this collection is that geopolitical-entities (indeed, all #$GeographicalAgents) are viewed in two significantly different ways with respect to two different types of geography-related microtheories. In a "physical" geography microtheory (i.e. #$PhysicalGeographyMt and its submicrotheories), geopolitical-entities are clearly distinguished from the regions they control. (#$TerritoryFn <b>GEO-POL</b>) is used in these contexts to denote the land mass (a GeopoliticalRegion ) of a given geopolitical-entity <b>GEO-POL</b>. In a "dualist" geography microtheory (i.e. #$DualistGeopoliticalMt and its submicrotheories), on the other hand, geopolitical-entities are viewed as being both agents and land masses (i.e. #$GeographicalRegions). Thus, there is little need for #$TerritoryFn in the latter sort of context. (Despite their somewhat paradoxical flavor, dualist microtheories arguably allow Cyc to mimic commonsense reasoning about geopolitical entities and regions more closely than do the stricter physicalist microtheories.) There are also some "generic" geography microtheories (e.g. #$WorldGeographyMt and #$UnitedStatesGeographyMt) which are neutral with respect to the physical and dualist views. <p> Also see the shared-note for this constant.
Structure:
  • Every police department is a subordinate organization of some political entity.
  • Every capital is the capital of some political entity.
  • If
    • some political entity is a political entity
    • and someone is treasurer of that political entity,
    then that person must be a human adult.
  • If
    • some political entity is a political entity
    • and someone is president of that political entity,
    then that person must be a human adult.
Every political entity has some mob as a physical part.
Miscellaneous:
No political entity is a local organization or a specially chartered institution.
  • Every diplomatic action was deliberately performed by some political entity.
  • Every governmental organization is affiliated with some political entity.
Commonwealth of Nations is composed exclusively of political entities. Political entities are capable of playing "originator" roles in ceding territory. Types of geographical entity classified by hierarchy represent one way to divide the entirety of political entities into subcollections. Every human right is an obligation of every political entity.
If some public property is public property and some social being owns that public property, then that social being must be a political entity.
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