Commonwealth

'Commonwealth'

[commonwealth.n.01] as in: the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)

'Commonwealth'

[state.n.04] as in: a politically organized body of people under a single government

Examples:
the state has elected a new president
African nations
students who had come to the nation's capitol
the country's largest manufacturer
an industrialized land

'Commonwealth'

[commonwealth.n.03] as in: a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another

'Commonwealth'

[democracy.n.02] as in: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

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