When I look at the definitions and explanations on Wikipedia’s kolkhoz page, it becomes difficult to define the term “Republic of Estonia” in the form in which the government promotes/presents it to the public, but which in its actual operational structure is based on legislative prescriptions of the European Union (including higher judicial authority and ownership of mineral/natural resources) and objectives that exclude the people’s right to self-determination based on national culture, the people’s right to the natural resources located within their territory, etc.
A state is a concept that denotes a territory where a unified legal order has been established. In a federal state, the unit of a unified legal order is a constituent state. Depending on the system of governance, constituent states may delegate part of their rights to a central government (the so-called bottom-up model, for example Switzerland), or the central government may grant limited self-governance rights to constituent states (the so-called top-down model).
In political science, the state is understood as a means for people to organize collective life. A state is a comprehensive system of governance formed through the interaction of the state apparatus and the citizenry for defining and implementing common goals. It is characterized by the separation of public authority, sovereignty and legitimacy, as well as a shared political space, governability, and the subjectivity of citizens.
A state is sovereign if the institutions exercising administrative power within its territory have full freedom to decide how to organize people’s lives there. A state with weak administrative capacity and/or a population lacking willpower—where people are unable or unwilling to organize their own lives and bear the associated costs—becomes dependent on another state (a hegemon) or loses its right to self-determination altogether. States that feel threatened by an external force may voluntarily enter into alliances and relinquish part of their decision-making authority to an institution that manages, within the agreed scope, their foreign relations, border protection, internal economic organization, etc. If a state that has joined such an agreement retains the freedom to leave at any time, this is referred to as a confederation.
The institutions that establish the legal order within a state are influenced by their environment, and their form has developed as a result of historical evolution. The nature of a state is determined by who formulates the laws and how, how compliance with them is ensured, what kind of judicial system administers justice, and what influence religious and military organizations have on governance.
Institutions exercising state power hold a monopoly on force, which is manifested in the right to use coercion against individuals who threaten the prevailing legal order or seek to change it through non-peaceful means.
— Founder of the Institute of Ancestral Wisdom, conservative methodological anarchist Mark Valdma
