Select an appropriate definition for the 'State'.

The 'State' is a caregiver for the population, which takes care by welfare measures. 'State' and society are the same; the difference between state and society is artificial. In that way state is just a web of social relations. The 'State' is a concept that emerged from the Indian subcontinent. The state structure in western countries is entirely different from that of India. The 'State' is an expression of a political desire, an abstract entity which includes political and legal institutions that claim authority over geography and population.

The 'State' is an expression of a political desire, an abstract entity which includes political and legal institutions that claim authority over geography and population.

This desire for political unity usually expresses itself as the aspiration to form a state. In its most general sense, the term state refers to an abstract entity consisting of a set of political-legal institutions claiming control over a particular geographical territory and the people living in it.