India

Government
Beurocratic Representative Democracy

Membership
Colonies represented nationally when population reaches 300,000. Incorporated as a "state" when population reaches 100,000

Colonies
Colonies are classified as "integrated" or "closed". Closed colonies are ethnic group eg Tamil or ethno-religious group (eg Sihk as different to Punjabi's). Several worlds have multiple "colonies" within the recognised Indian claim

Military
The Indian military was first to abandon the seperation between ground, air and sea roles as well as higher command levels such as divisions and corps by merging all forces into "regiments"

Regiments are organised as multi-battalion units patterned as either Security, Combined arms or Heavy regiments and form deployable forces entirely from their organic components.

Security regiments are optimised for Light Infantry, MP etc duties with very little air or sea capability besides transport functions. The Assam Rifles is the most prestigious "regiment" and news of its deployment to any region is usually enough to calm civil unrest

Combined regiments are balanced integrated forces units including air and naval combat craft appropriate to their size. Rajput, Punjab, Garhwal rifles, Dogra

Heavy regiments are skewed towards assault missions by omitting units capable of performing Security duties. Gaurds, Grenadiers, Indian Horse

Outside of this structure is the Gorkha (Gurkha) Rifles which consists only of units trained for Security and Commando functions. These form the final resort force for the Indian government and have unrestricted authority within the military which has never been misused (senior NCO's have the responsibility to kill misbehaving Gorkha officers).