Commonwealth

A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.

The whole body of people in a state; the public.

Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659.

a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another

a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them