Talk:Menagerie/@comment-28171999-20161217194500/@comment-64.203.32.58-20161218043646

In the US system, the native tribes are considered sovereign but subordinate (bound by some federal laws, but not others, and not state laws.)  Tribes tend to refer to themselves and the land they rule as nations, i.e. the Navajo Nation or the Cherokee Nation.

If we extend that to completely a completely sovereign entity, a country run by a chieftain is called a Nation. The Faunus Nation or the Nation of Menagerie.