nation-state

Definitions

1. A political entity (a state) associated with a common national identity (historically, culturally, or ethnically; as with a nation) and a sovereign territorial unit.
2. Any independent political state; a country.
   broadly, proscribed

Equivalents

Examples

“Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own⟳ passports, flies its own⟳ flag, prints its own⟳ currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.”

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