Richship (English: Government; Statehood) is the mootish leadership of a land. It comes in many shapes and it oftentimes needs to be understood by other richships of other lands as being the rightful leadership of a land so for it to be weighed amongst the all-land neighborhood (also to get a seat in the lawmaker body of the Banded Lands).
However, richship is for the most deal a body that leads and wields a land so as to, in hopeful thought, ward the freedom of its folk. This is not always true, though.
Kinds of richship are here: State and Government