An unusually difficult or dangerous situation in which a government gives itself special powers or suspends normal legal procedures so as to regain control.

A state or nation acting outside of the accepted international norms and policies.

plural of Secretary of State

Any of several senior government positions whose function varies from nation to nation. / The chief clerk of a U.S. state.

A sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a league of such cities.

(physics) The stationary state of lowest energy of a particle or system of particles.

Alternative spelling of city state

A state or country that is governed constitutionally as one single unit, with one constitutionally created legislature.

(physics) any state of a particle or system of particles that has a higher energy than that of its ground state

The psychological state of someone's cognitive processes at a certain time; the condition or character of a person's thoughts or feelings.