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State capitalism
State capitalism is an economic system in which profit-seeking activity is organized or controlled by the state, through state-owned enterprises, preferential credit, subsidies, and industrial policy.
State capture
State capture: shaping a state's basic rules (laws, regulations, appointments) through illicit payments to officials; defined by Hellman, Jones, and Kaufmann (World Bank, 2000), and the name for South Africa's Gupta-Zuma-era corruption exposed by the Zondo Commission.
State Champs
State Champs: Albany, New York pop-punk band formed in 2010 by Derek DiScanio and Tyler Szalkowski on Pure Noise Records; five albums including The Finer Things (2013) and the self-titled 2024 LP.
State College, PA Metro Area
The State College, PA metropolitan area is a US metropolitan statistical area comprising Centre County in central Pennsylvania, anchored by State College and Pennsylvania State University's University Park campus.
State College, Pennsylvania
State College is a home rule borough in Centre County, Pennsylvania, home of Penn State's University Park campus. Incorporated 1896; 2020 population 40,501; Council/Manager/Mayor government under a 1973 Home Rule Charter.
State communications in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
State communications in the Neo-Assyrian Empire was the royal relay system of letters and messengers linking the king to his governors and commanders, evidenced by about 3,000 surviving letters.
State constitutions in the United States
State constitutions in the United States are the 50 states' written fundamental laws, separate from the U.S. Constitution. The states have adopted 144 constitutions, held over 230 conventions, and ratified more than 7,000 amendments, with positive rights on education, labor, welfare, and the environment.
State Corporation Commission (Virginia)
The State Corporation Commission (SCC) is an independent Virginia regulatory agency, created in 1902, that regulates utilities, insurance, banks, securities, and railroads and files corporate charters.
State Council
The State Council (Государственный совет) was the supreme legislative advisory body of the Russian Empire, created by Alexander I in 1810 on Mikhail Speransky's plan.
State Council of the People's Republic of China
The State Council of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国国务院) is China's highest executive and administrative organ, created in 1954 out of the earlier Government Administration Council, with Zhou Enlai directing its design.
State Council reform of 1906
The State Council reform of 1906 (Реформа Государственного совета 1906 года) turned the State Council into an upper legislative chamber with elected members, equal to the new State Duma.
State Courts of Singapore
The State Courts of Singapore, formerly the Subordinate Courts, handle over 90% of criminal matters. They include District and Magistrates' Courts with specific civil and criminal jurisdictions.
State Defence Committee
The State Defence Committee (GKO) was the supreme extraordinary organ of state power in the Soviet Union during World War II, chaired by Stalin from 1941 to 1945.
State Defense Committee
The State Defense Committee (GKO) was the extraordinary supreme organ of state power in the Soviet Union during World War II, chaired by Stalin from 1941 to 1945.
State defense force
A state defense force (SDF) is a state military reserve serving under the governor's authority, authorized by federal law since 1940 and never callable into the federal armed forces.
State diagram
A state diagram, also called a statechart or state transition diagram, is a directed graph representing a system's states, transitions, and the events that trigger them.
State distillation (quantum computing)
State distillation is a quantum computing protocol that converts many noisy quantum states into fewer, higher-fidelity copies, enabling the non-Clifford gates required for universal fault-tolerant computation.
State Duma (Государственная дума)
State Duma (Государственная дума), lower house of Russia's parliament: 450 deputies, mixed electoral system, imperial predecessor 1906–1917, constitutional powers, and the record-high 2026 wartime election result.
State Emblem of India
The State Emblem of India, also called the National Emblem or Ashok Stambh, is the adaptation of the Sarnath Lion Capital adopted 26 January 1950, showing three lions, the Dharma Chakra, bull, and horse, with the motto Satyameva Jayate, protected by the 2005 Act.
State Ethnic Affairs Commission
The State Ethnic Affairs Commission (国家民族事务委员会, 国家民委) is the State Council department in charge of China's ethnic affairs, currently led by director and Party secretary Chen Ruifeng.
State Fair (1945 film)
State Fair (1945) is Rodgers and Hammerstein's only original film musical, a Technicolor remake of the 1933 Fox film, directed by Walter Lang, starring Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews, and winning the Best Song Oscar for "It Might as Well Be Spring."
State Fair (1962 film)
State Fair (1962) is a Twentieth Century-Fox musical comedy directed by José Ferrer, the third film version of Philip Stong's story, set in Texas with Pat Boone, Ann-Margret, Bobby Darin, and Alice Faye, and five new Richard Rodgers songs written after Oscar Hammerstein's death.
State Fair of Texas
State Fair of Texas, annual 24-day fair at Fair Park in Dallas since 1886; 501(c)(3) nonprofit; home of Big Tex, the Texas Star Ferris wheel, and the Red River Rivalry; among the largest and longest-running state fairs in the United States.
State Farm
State Farm is a group of American insurance and financial services companies, founded in 1922 in Bloomington, Illinois, and the largest US auto and property insurer.
State Farm Arena
State Farm Arena, formerly Philips Arena, is Atlanta's NBA arena, home of the Atlanta Hawks since 1999 and the Atlanta Dream from 2027, with a 16,888 basketball capacity and a $192.5 million 2017-18 renovation.
State Farm Stadium
State Farm Stadium, formerly University of Phoenix Stadium, is the Arizona Cardinals' NFL stadium in Glendale, Arizona, opened 2006, with a retractable roof and roll-out natural grass field; host of Super Bowls XLII, XLIX, LVII and NCAA Final Fours.
State film studios of Central Asia and the Caucasus
State film studios of Central Asia and the Caucasus: Uzbekfilm (1924), Tajikfilm (1926), Kazakhfilm (1936), Kyrgyzfilm (1942), Kartuli Pilmi (1921), Azerbaijanfilm. Soviet-era state production houses, wartime TsOKS hub, post-1991 privatization.
State financial office elections in the United States
State financial office elections in the United States are contests for state treasurer, auditor, comptroller, and insurance commissioner; 49 offices are up for election in 2026.
State forest
A state forest is a forest owned and managed by a state, typically for timber production, recreation, wildlife habitat, watershed protection, and education, distinct from federal national forests.
State formation
State formation: the long-term process by which centralized authority consolidates into territorial sovereign states, covering violence monopolization, taxation, bureaucracy, war-driven European state-building, colonial trajectories, and primary states.