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Political system by which a body of people is administered and regulated.
Different levels of government typically have different responsibilities. The level closest to those governed is local government. Regional governments comprise a grouping of individual communities. National governments nominally control all the territory within internationally recognized borders and have responsibilities not shared by their subnational counterparts. Most governments exercise executive , legislative (see legislature ), and judicial (see judiciary ) powers and split or combine them in various ways. Some also control the religious affairs of their people; others avoid any involvement with religion. Political forms at the national level determine the powers exercised at the subnational levels; these have included autocracy, democracy , fascism , monarchy , oligarchy , plutocracy (government by the wealthy), theocracy , and totalitarianism .
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cloistered government
city government
government budget
military government
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