But there is no such thing as a country. We just make this stuff up. It's a convention. I'll go you one further - people don't ACTUALLY have values. They make

But there is no such thing as a country. We just make this stuff up. It's a convention. I'll go you one further - people don't ACTUALLY have values. They make that stuff up too. This being said, to the extent that they do exist, nation-states have interests, not values. When they try to have "values", things tend to go badly.