### social organization:

Nation
* All nations are families which have grown large enough to possess and hold a territory
  - subject to 'hundred' year floods and drought
  - can come and drink freely
  - depend on export income and imported goods, from food to fuel to weapons
* All nations have a name for their particular god who they say created the universe
  - rich heritage of myths and legends
* All nations have an anthem to play in times of celebration and to inspire national pride
  - important part to play in the fight against child pornography
  - days they celebrate on account of some event in their history
  - flags
  - laws against poisoning and murdering their citizens, and aiding and abetting same
  - patriotic songs that express the people's love for their country
  - regulatory agencies that supervise and recommend geographical name changes
  - practice 'the art of deception' during war times
  - share the electromagnetic spectrum
* Every Nation has a Book of records
  - distinct language, culture, history, national cuisine, dress etc
* Every nation already has flags of gaudy stripes and unnatural colours
  - also has a religious, social and cultural heritage which profoundly affects it
  - depends on ecological capacity to sustain itself
* Every nation has a flag
  - government which exercises authority over it
  - governmental office for weights and measures
  - right to self-determination
  - set of laws
  - unique history that exerts an influence on the events of the present
  - at least one person who serves as the ceremonial head of the government
  - many ethnic groups or communities
  - some sort of religion which establishes the laws of that nation
  - the central banking and money minting monopoly
  - teaches that citizens are accountable to human law
* Many nations are wary of genetically modified foods
  - ban Belgian food exports
  - choose military leaders routinely for their highest office
  - continue to violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
* Many nations depend on fishing for sustenance
  - the sea for survival, through fishing, maritime trade or tourism
  - experience economic slavery with respect to Western banks
  - face a critical shortage of skilled people to perform corporate tasks
* Many nations have a history of eugenic thought or practice based on perceived genetic risks
  - independent space programs
  - laws in place to prevent such invasions of privacy
  - no specific laws against trafficking in persons and few on women
  - open records for adult adoptees
  - some level of market economy
* Many nations have their own domain names, and there are more being created every day
  - standards for worker safety and health
  - now spend four times as much on debt repayment as on health care
  - offer free guaranteed education through college
  - often attempt to regulate business activities conducted outside their borders
  - only enter athletes in codes that require the most minimal of equipment or facilities
  - pretend to encourage freedom of movement
  - protect their own farmers by limiting or even banning food imports
  - rely on private financing to modernize and make their economies more productive
  - report only one figure for women who die
* Many nations still maintain corporal punishment, frequently cruel
  - use their own language
  - subsidizes their agricultural sectors
  - unfairly restrict the importation of United States agricultural products
* Many nations use proportional representation, which produces multiple parties
  - tariffs to protect their industries from foreign competition
  - the dollar as a reserve for their currency
* More nations have nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
* Most nations also act on interest in their foreign affairs.
* Most nations are committed to reducing the supply of drugs like heroin
  - exposed to a number of sports during their period of urbanization
  - celebrate a variety of cultures and customs
  - establish infrastructures
* Most nations experience economic growth
  - natural disasters
* Most nations get clean energy
  - electrical energy
  - nutrition
* Most nations have a history of eugenic thought or practice
  - language, culture, territory, and history
  - mixed economy, like Canada
  - number of luminaries lighting up the world in various ways
  - coastlines
  - extensive coastlines
  - no independent judiciary or bicameral parliament
  - state websites
  - tradition
  - keep cats
  - only let their citizens vote
* Most nations produce sea vegetables
* Most nations recognize marriages
  - the uniquely powerful nature of media in one way or another
  - require schools to teach their country's heritage as a means of developing patriotism
* Most nations sell goods
  - start with a single race or culture
  - support families
* Most nations use government
  - natural resources
  - some form of postal code or zip code in their addresses
* Regulate the Internet.
* Some nations already have criminal laws against international bribery
  - can influence and control their media greatly
  - compose of men
  - consider states
  - demonize fat-cat billionaire businessmen
  - divide their legal professions into an array of categories and branches
* Some nations have a great deal of petroleum reserves, while other nations have none
  - long experience in health care quality improvement
  - breakfast cereals
  - centers
  - cultural patterns
  - gun control
  - medical research reactors
  - specialized groups to track down cyber-criminals
  - link their currency to the dollar because it is perceived as stable
  - possess more military and economic power than do others
  - recognize national dishes
  - rely mostly on tradition, others on planning
  - require all citizens to vote
  - respect the rights of their citizens
  - show growth
  - use flytraps
* affect their inflation rates by control of the money supply.
* also have differing visions and laws
  - personalities
* are afraid of one another and so are different sections of society
  - also interdependent
  - an inevitable product, an inevitable form, in the bourgeois epoch of social development
  - as protective of their survival as are individuals - and nations have armies
  - capable of arm citizens
  - clubs for students coming from different geographic regions in Sweden
  - confederations
  - convention
  - essentially cohesive cultural communities with a strong self-identity
  - lines on a map to real people
  - located in japans
  - masses with too enormous a momentum to reverse their motion with a jerk
  - only individuals on a larger scale
  - recent inventions, and they sometimes last just a few short generations
  - responsible for the care of all their citizens including their children
  - simply the offspring of men
* arise in large part from their very racial, religious, and cultural unity and uniqueness.
* benefit from increasing their levels of international trade.
* breeder of golden retrievers.
* can reach their economic potential only if they channel investment and capital efficiently.
* change societies, And they in turn change laws.
* compete for the consumer in the global marketplace as do individual business owners.
* create clear guidelines
  - wealth internally but they have to service their external debts in another currency
* crush life and breath out of other nations.
* currently have the right to issue compulsory licenses on patents and copyrights.
* define themselves as having achieved cohesion through monolingualism.
* depend upon soil, climate, geographical position, and countless other facts.
* differ from each other as greatly as individuals in the Same nation.
* exist in culture.
* experience disasters
* face crises.
* gain meaning through the stories they tell and the stories they choose to believe.
* have coastlines
  - conditions
  - difficulty controlling their borders against the flow of people and information
  - flags and days the same way clothes have labels
  - laws governing immigration as well as emigration
  - passions like men
  - protection
  - some form of recognizable government structure
  - stronger economies today
* have the fundamental and natural right to determine the course of their own future
  - right to just war and individuals have the right to self-defense
* have their courts and legislatures
  - legislatures and judicial bodies
* help organize political communities, identifying who belongs with whom.
* is an unit
* maintain their own currencies to protect national interests.
* make improvement
  - progress
  - significant improvement
* now measure destructive force by the number of megatons built into a hydrogen bomb.
* often act in selfish and destructive ways
  - have unique methods to define literacy
  - utilize economic measures to influence the actions of others
* political concept that can be applied in various ways.
* regulate themselves and their acts, religious and commercial, by the moon.
* relatively modern concept and is tied to the question of citizenship and democracy.
* rely on each other for goods, markets, labor and capital.
* routinely have differences of interest and perspective.
* see growth.
* share common responsibilities for preserving Earth's environment.
* spend a great deal of money and effort in preparing for war.
* support contractors
  - goals
* take actions
  - advantage
* tell stories of their past in terms of which they try to shape their futures.
* tend to expand during renaissance eras, and contract during decadent eras.
* traditionally make monuments of their grandest and most glorious places.
* use efficient technology
* will have impact
  - large impact
+ Food Power: Politics
  * In politics, the use of agriculture or agricultural products to influence the outcome of decisions is called 'Food Power'. Through this cartel, they can fix the price at which they will sell oil. Food power works in much the same way. Nations usually do what is best for their citizens, who usually want food.
+ Olympic Games, Ceremonies, Opening
  * After the artistic portion of the ceremony, the athletes parade into the stadium grouped by nation. Greece is traditionally the first nation to enter in order to honor the origins of the Olympics. Nations then enter the stadium alphabetically according to the host country's chosen language. The host country's athletes are always the last to enter. During the 2004 Summer Olympics, which was hosted in Athens, Greece. The Greek flag entered the stadium first and last. When it came in to the stadium for the second time it was followed by the athletes. Speeches are then given formally opening the Games.