Glossary: "egregore" (because I've had to explain this to non-twitter friends a few times too many and there seem to be no linkable explanations on the net):
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mobs are generally stupid, violent and short-lived, I mean you can generalize the term a little (like in mob programming) but it's a bad fit for something with as much executive function as, say, a state
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Do those fit the category, with such centralized leadership? What's the line between an egregore and just any group of people? I don't quite get the distinction if something like a US state qualifies. (Unless the people of a state do, but the state as an entity doesn't? Weird.)
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oh! something I totally forgot during writing was that I wanted to include the deep state as a kind of nebulous sibling egregore to the state (tl;dr is: what is legibly the leadership may not be the actual leadership)
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as for what groups of people are egregores, see the technical definition at the bottom but also consider: sometimes a group of people is simply a group of people
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the state as in "all of the citizens" and the state as in "the power structure managing the citizens" are different beasts, you can call either an egregore but it's more useful to consider the latter one