In reality, though, most "sovereign" nations are little more than self-governing provinces within a larger imperial system governed by the United States.
Netflix is an automated system governed by a crude algorithm.
The Kosovar Serbs flatly refuse to live under any system governed by Pristina.
In a system governed by power, money and influence, there have been few convictions.
Under a proportional representation electoral system governed by the d'Hondt formula, ballots are cast for a provincewide party list rather than for candidates representing individual constituencies.
The title "Strange Attractors" comes from chaos theory, a branch of math and mechanics that tries to explain how apparently random behavior can occur in a system governed by deterministic laws.
Braun, on the other hand, was cleared by a flawed baseball policy that lacks the independence and transparency of the Olympic system governed by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
In a system governed by the logic of the median-voter theorem, one would expect to see the parties converging in policy terms to win the allegiance of voters in the centre.
Salen's theory goes like this: building a game — even the kind of simple game a sixth grader might build — is equivalent to building a miniworld, a dynamic system governed by a set of rules, complete with challenges, obstacles and goals.
Bell System, a former American telephone system, governed by American Telephone & Telegraph Company (now AT&T Corporation) and including Western Electric Company, the system's manufacturer; Bell Laboratories, the research and development facility; and other departments and 22 operating companies.
That resumé rundown isn't meant to impute personal venality to any of these officials; it's to point out the corruption of a system governed by unelected ex-bankers colluding in unprecedented austerity for the poor, while shovelling hundreds of billions at bankers.
