Today there is NO political corporation (state, country, nation,etc. under any definition) that does not claim itself sovereign. That is why all are RULERS under any name. The populace, the subjects/citizens, or whatever names used, are only the ruled. Even in the good old USA it all ended in 1787, when the people and their rights ended to be sovereign. All 13 states become sovereign, plus the 14th sovereign government that became supreme and absolute sovereign government. That is why there was NO term as "nation" or "government" until 1787, only the "brotherly association" of the 13 united states assembled in Congress. It was a 'common government to handle the common interests' of all the 13 states, but not supreme above them, and only when they were assembled in Congress. But the wealthy, the powerful had little control over the masses politically or by police powers.