Replicated state structure

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Each node of the Internet Computer maintains a state. The state includes the data related to canisters, the messages processed by the node, responses generated after processing the messages, etc. A portion of the state is individual to each node (Eg: messages received in the peer-to-peer layer). A portion of the state is identical for all the honest nodes in the subnet. This portion of the state is called <bold>replicated state</bold> of the subnet. In this article, we describe the structure of the replicated state stored on the Internet Computer.