A country is a polity which is divided up in to administrative “districts”, and each district administers the state business, and its citizenry within that jurisdictional area.
A district is an area of administration under a feudal lord or officer who can take and withhold personal property for legal reasons. Any citizen of the UNITED KINGDOM that has been involved in a “planning enforcement” issue will resonate with that definition, and its closely linked and synonymous term: “distress”
A list of the registration districts in England and Wales: