Nation state
"Nation state" in a Sentence (2 examples)
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]:[…]; […] or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
But times have changed, and mother / Standing at the garden gate / Calls us home for dinner / With the nation state