body politic

Noun

1.

body politic - a politically organized body of people under a single government; "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" Synonyms: nation, res publica, commonwealth, country, state, land

BODY POLITIC, government, corporations. When applied to the government this phrase signifies the state.
     2. As to the persons who compose the body politic, they take collectively the name, of people, or nation; and individually they are citizens, when considered in relation to their political rights, and subjects as being submitted to the laws of the state.
     3. When it refers to corporations, the term body politic means that the members of such corporations shall be considered as an artificial person.

ally, city state, commonwealth, country, Dominion, estate, estate of the realm, great power, land, major power, nation, political unit, power, Reich, renegade state, res publica, rogue nation, rogue state, sea power, state, superpower, suzerain, world power