The park will be owned jointly by the town, county and state but operated as a state park.
But it has yet to start and is already controversial: many Hondurans worry that it will operate as a state within a state, milked by business interests.
Soviet security forces operated as a state within a state, and it's more than possible they kept secrets from their own diplomats.
Above all, there was Blatter's overarching appeal to what we might call patriotism, given that Fifa effectively operates as a state without borders.
He was careful not to openly accuse the military of plotting a takeover, but he did say that it must answer to the elected government and could not operate as a "state within a state".
At one such intersection, Second and Merchant Streets, private historic homes sit flush to the sidewalk on three corners; on the fourth is what was once the store and residence of Felix Valle, now operated as a state historic site.
As former deputy chief George Young stated: "It is the spy who has been called upon to remedy the situation created by deficiencies of ministers, diplomats, generals and priests". So, for the past 50 years, argues Dorril, MI6 has operated as a state within a state, influencing and manipulating foreign policy to suit its jaundiced view of the world.
The VHI operated as a state supported monopoly from 1957 until the entry of a rival (BUPA) in 1997, followed by additional entrants in 2004 and 2012.
A National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) was established in 1999, which effectively operated as a state marketing board by purchasing maize within set price bands.
Pipsa will continue to operate as a state-owned company, Salinas said.
