Country
| Basic: |
| A country is a type of political entity. "Country" is a type of geographical entity classified by hierarchy. |
| Documentation: |
| Comment: A specialization of GeopoliticalEntity . Each instance of #$Country is a nation-state having its own territory, population, and government, whether or not it is fully independent. For example, Scotland is an instance of #$Country, even though it is a part of the UnitedKingdomOfGreatBritainAndNorthernIreland . See also the important specialization IndependentCountry. |
| Structure: |
| Every state is in some country. Every first order administrative division is part of some country. Every person is a citizen of some country. Some person is a citizen of every country. |
| Every head of government is a leader of some country. All reserves is a suborganization of some country. Every national capital is the capital of some country. Only national capitals bear the relation capital city to countries. |
| Miscellaneous: |
| If some destruction of countries is destruction of countries and it destroyed some thing existing stably in time, then that thing existing stably in time must be a country. If some national government is a national government and that national government is the governing body of some political entity, then that political entity must be a country. No non-national flags symbolize countries. No country is an American city. |