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* Historically the Kingdom of Ryukyu was this to Japan, or more specifically the Satsuma, the most powerful feudal lords of southern Kyushu. Following the Meiji Restoration and the Satsuma Rebellion, it was annexed outright to become the modern day prefecture of Okinawa.
* For much of history actual sovereignty was a more confusing thing then in a modern Western style nation-state. The top monarch (or top "corporate monarch" in the rare cases of a pre-modern republic) was theoretically sovereign in the sense that he gave homage to no mortal though sometimes he had so little actual power that he could barely tell his servants which floor to scrub. Below him were clients and clients of clients and so on ''ad infinitum'' down to [[The Clan]], all combining in various alliances and conspiracies, and internal arrangements of their own and often even fighting [[Feuding Families|private wars.]]
* Indigenous Peoples in English speaking countries sometimes have a legal self-governing community. Because of historical difficulties the ramifications of this can be often-cranky. And so the [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement]]. In some ways this system represents a pre-modern "pyramidal state".
* Company towns, religious or ideological communes and basically anyone with enough clout to buy up land for their group and defend it with a fancy lawyer are another form of this. They aren't really states but they share some of the same characteristics and in times when the government was thinner on the ground they had greater resemblance.
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