Country with two capitals where our people may be represented (6,6)
I believe the answer is:
united states
'country' is the definition.
(I know that United States is a great power)
'two capitals where our people may be represented' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'people' could be 'teds' (Ted is an example) and 'teds' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'with' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for united states that I've seen before include "National federation" , "Country, capital Washington DC" .)