!!!Wake Island: Government
||Country name|''conventional long form'': none \\ ''conventional short form'': Wake Island \\ ''etymology'': although first discovered by British Captain William WAKE in 1792, the island is named after British Captain Samuel WAKE who rediscovered the island in 1796 \\ 
||Dependency status|unorganized, unincorporated territory of the US; administered from Washington, DC, by the Department of the Interior; activities in the atoll are currently conducted by the US Air Force
||Legal system|US common law
||Citizenship|see United States
||Flag description|the flag of the US is used