statedom
Noun
The state of being a state (a polity).
Usage- Uncountable
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They despise the petty statedom of Greece, in which the interests of the meanest selfishness are the determining element, and deride a commonwealth, in which the chance of the beans determines who is to govern.
Standards, rules, protocol— that was the stuff of statedom and bureaucracy; and tribunal members, like their counterparts around the globe, were immersed in them.