politic : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a politically organized body of people under a single government
  commonwealth; land; res publica; country; nation; state.
  
  • 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

WordNet

• the collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions; also, a corporation. Wharton.

  As to the persons who compose the body politic or associate themselves, they take collectively the name of "people", or "nation". Bouvier.

Webster 1913