is capable of marshalling resources, has a governance structure, legal rights and exclusive jurisdiction over internal decision making. An ethnic community within a country or subnational entity may be a polity if they have sufficient organization and cohesive interests that can be furthered by such organization. See also Kokutai Nation Politeia Political system References External links Dictionary of the History of Ideas – analogy of the body politic (elaboration of correspondences between society or the state and the individual human body) Polity at the Encyclopædia Britannica Government