Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Organizations (hierarchy name)
4. organizations (groups)
5. administrative bodies
6. political administrative bodies
7. [political administrative bodies by governing person]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts
4. social science concepts
5. political concepts
6. government
7. government by form

Anotations

Scope note:

States a people is a tributary to a suzerain ruler, or in more recent history, to a more powerful state that controls its foreign affairs while allowing the tributary vassal state some limited domestic autonomy. An historical example is the Ottoman Empire and its surrounding regions.