The article explores morphological qualities of different kinds of states. Some of those qualities depend on their internal blueprints and constitute inner forms of political order. Other properties developed due to diffusion of alternative modes of political organization through networks of state communities. They account to external forms of states. Respectively inner forms entail reproduction, variation and eventually divergence, while outer forms require diffusion and convergence. Actual transformation of states shapes into a sequence of generation of specific types of states and their networks or systems of states. Methodological prospects of research rest on our ability both to differentiate convergence and divergence as well as to establish their balance and mutual interface.