res publica -
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"
developing country a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically
dominion one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth
estate of the realm,
the three estates,
estate a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights
foreign country any state of which one is not a citizen; "working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to"