Communities of Planetary Nations (CPN)

Communities of Planetary Nations (CPN) is a nation classification of a independent nation or state that lacks the power to either maintain or reach territory outside of their home systems. A nation that is a CPN is more similar to the power level of the nations of Earths 2nd Millennium, while most have access to space and controls its own borders, airspace or even orbital facilities and satellites, they are by definition confined to their home star and planet.
A CPN can be a independent colony on a distant planet lacking the infrastructure to expand further into space, or one of many independent sub-factions and territories on a planet within a Interstellar Empire.