Interesting question. "Nation" is really the people, not the country or the state, and the reason it's mixed up to the point of having reached the dictionaries

Interesting question. "Nation" is really the people, not the country or the state, and the reason it's mixed up to the point of having reached the dictionaries, is the strong nation-states that have been founded in Europe the last few hundred years. "State" is the organisation that governs a country or region, and in extension all it's concerns. Activity means hacking. So... a government organisation from a country of ethnically and culturally distinct people are hacking shit.