Countries:IndependentState leaf node


URI

http://www.bpiresearch.com/BPMO/2004/03/03/cdl/Countries#IndependentState

Label

IndependentState

Description

Fully self-governing and sovereign. A portion of legislative power may be transfered voluntarily to some other political body (e.g. the European Union) at the government's discretion.

Example: The Federal Republic of Germany enjoys sovereignty and is self-governing. It is part of the European Union. The European Parliament is given authority to produce laws in certain fields, which are considered binding by every member.

Superclasses (1)

Usage

Instances of Countries:IndependentState can have the following properties:

PROPERTYTYPEDESCRIPTIONRANGE
From class Countries:IndependentState
Countries:challengesSovereigntyOf owl:ObjectProperty Countries:IndependenceDisputedState
From class Countries:Country
Countries:nameEnglish owl:DatatypeProperty The name of the country in the English language xsd:string
Countries:nameEnglishLong owl:DatatypeProperty xsd:string
Countries:nameLocal owl:DatatypeProperty The name of the country in local language, using ISO-8859 characters. xsd:string
Countries:nameLocalLong owl:DatatypeProperty xsd:string
Countries:referencedByISO3166 owl:FunctionalProperty Countries:ISO3166DefinedCountry
From class owl:Thing
Countries:creationTimestamp owl:DatatypeProperty xsd:dateTime
Countries:deletionTimestamp owl:DatatypeProperty xsd:dateTime
Countries:modificationTimestamp owl:DatatypeProperty xsd:dateTime

Implementation

@prefix : <http://www.bpiresearch.com/BPMO/2004/03/03/cdl/Countries#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

:IndependentState a owl:Class ;
    rdfs:comment """Fully self-governing and sovereign. A portion of legislative power may be transfered voluntarily to some other political body (e.g. the European Union) at the government's discretion.

Example: The Federal Republic of Germany enjoys sovereignty and is self-governing. It is part of the European Union. The European Parliament is given authority to produce laws in certain fields, which are considered binding by every member.""" ;
    rdfs:subClassOf :Country ;
    owl:disjointWith :AssociatedState,
        :FullyDependentTerritory,
        :OccupiedTerritory,
        :UnclaimableTerritory,
        :VirtualTerritory,
        :VirtuallyAnnexedTerritory .