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State legislative assemblies of India
State legislative assemblies (Vidhan Sabha) are the directly elected lower houses of India's state and UT legislatures under Articles 168-170: 60-500 members, five-year terms, ECI-run elections, with sittings averaging 24 days in 2025.
State legislative councils of India
State Legislative Councils (Vidhan Parishad) are the upper houses of six Indian states' bicameral legislatures, created or abolished under Article 169, elected partly by graduates, teachers, and local bodies.
State legislative elections in the United States
State legislative elections in the United States are the elections that choose members of the 99 state senate and house chambers, holding 7,386 seats across the 50 states.
State legislature (United States)
State legislatures are the 50 U.S. state lawmaking bodies: 99 chambers (Nebraska unicameral since 1934), 7,383 legislators, 6,764 districts. Core facts cover functions, process, staff, professionalism, term limits, and redistricting.
State liquor monopoly (quanjiugu)
The state liquor monopoly (榷酒酤, quanjiugu; also written 榷酤) was a Han dynasty policy under Emperor Wu giving the government exclusive control of brewing and selling alcohol.
State List
The State List (List II) of India's Seventh Schedule enumerates subjects on which state legislatures have exclusive lawmaking power under Article 246(3), covering police, public order, health, agriculture, land, and local taxation; originally 66 entries, now 61 after amendments.
State machine replication
State machine replication (SMR) is a technique for building fault-tolerant distributed services, in which replicas of a deterministic state machine execute client commands in the same order via consensus.
State media
State media: news organizations owned, funded, governed, or editorially directed by a state, also called state-controlled or public service media. Distinguished by the State Media Matrix's seven models; 85% of 606 surveyed outlets worldwide are captured or controlled (2025).
State Medicine
State medicine, also called socialized medicine, is medical care regulated, financed, and controlled by a national government, with the British National Health Service as its principal example.
State National Council
The State National Council (Krajowa Rada Narodowa, KRN) was a communist quasi-parliament in Poland from 1944 to 1946 that oversaw the communist takeover of the country.
State nationalism
State nationalism is top-down nationalism promoted by an existing state to make all legal citizens, whatever their ethnicity, share one national identity. Also called official or state-building nationalism; contrasts with ethnic nationalism and the state-nation accommodation model.
State observers for nonlinear systems
State observers for nonlinear systems are algorithms that estimate a system's unmeasured internal variables in real time from measured inputs, outputs, and a model of the dynamics.
State of Affairs (TV series)
State of Affairs is an NBC political drama (premiered November 17, 2014) starring Katherine Heigl as CIA analyst Charleston Tucker, who briefs President Constance Payton (Alfre Woodard) via the daily PDB; one season, reviewed as derivative of Homeland and Scandal.
State of Alwar
Alwar State, a Naruka Rajput princely state in Rajputana founded by Pratap Singh (1740–1791), joined the Matsya Union in March 1948 and merged into Rajasthan on 15 May 1949.
State of Anjouan
State of Anjouan (Nzwani): separatist state declared on the Comorian island of Anjouan on 3 August 1997, reunified in 2002 under Mohamed Bacar, and ended by the AU-backed military intervention of 24 March 2008.
State of Ba
The State of Ba (巴国), also called Baizi Guo (巴子国), was a Zhou-enfeoffed state in the Sichuan Basin, ruled by a zi-ranked Baizi and annexed by Qin in 316 BC.
State of Bai
The State of Bai (柏国), also called Baizi State, was a small Zhou vassal state of the Spring and Autumn period, allied with Qi and destroyed by Chu.
State of Bi
The State of Bi (毕国) was a small Zhou-dynasty principality in present-day Shaanxi, founded for Bi Gonggao, a Zhou kinsman, and best known as the ancestral state of Wei.
State of Buenos Aires
The State of Buenos Aires (Estado de Buenos Aires) was the polity into which Buenos Aires province organized itself after seceding from the Argentine Confederation in 1852.
State of Burma
The State of Burma was the nominally independent Burmese state established under Japanese sponsorship on 1 August 1943, with Ba Maw as Head of State, lasting until 1945.
State of Cai
The State of Cai (蔡国) was a vassal state of the Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn periods, lasting about 600 years under 26 marquises.
State of Cambodia
The State of Cambodia (រដ្ឋកម្ពុជា) was the government that ruled Cambodia from 1989 to 1993, the renamed successor of the People's Republic of Kampuchea led by Hun Sen.
State of Cao
The State of Cao (曹国) was a mid-sized vassal state of the Zhou dynasty, founded by Shu Zhenduo, a brother of King Wu, and destroyed by Song in 487 BC.
State of charge
State of charge (SoC) is the fraction of a battery's capacity currently available, expressed as a percentage; since it cannot be measured directly, battery management systems estimate it.
State of Chu
The State of Chu (楚國) was a major multi-ethnic state of the Zhou world, dominating the Han and Huai regions until Qin captured its last king and abolished it.
State of Decay (video game)
State of Decay is a 2013 open-world zombie survival game by Undead Labs, published by Microsoft Studios for Xbox 360 and PC, with permanent character death, base building, and 250,000 first-48-hour downloads; sequels followed in 2018 and 2027.
State of Decay 2
State of Decay 2 (2018) is a zombie survival game by Undead Labs, published by Microsoft, with community management, base building, and four-player co-op; Juggernaut Edition remaster (2020), 10+ million players, final update late 2024.
State of Decay 3
State of Decay 3 is Undead Labs' open-world zombie survival game, announced July 2020, gameplay-revealed June 2026, releasing 2027 on Xbox, PC, Steam, PS5, and Game Pass with 4-player shared-world co-op.
State of Deng
The State of Deng (邓国) was a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty in China's south, destroyed by Chu in 678 BC; its location remains disputed.
State of Deseret
State of Deseret: provisional Mormon state proposed in 1849 with a Salt Lake City constitution and 2,270-signature petition; Congress instead created Utah Territory in 1850.