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Why then have nations?

• TeMPOraL 6y ago
  Nations were useful, particularly when almost all problems were local problems. Doesn't mean it's an ideal top-level organization for XXI century. You have bodies like Germany or the US, which function as a federation of states. Looking at Germany and EU, you essentially have states within a state within a sort-of state. You can stack governments recursively, so it's possible and in some ways desirable to have a single one at the top level.
• int_19h 6y ago
  There are places where even posing this question - at least if it clearly applies to the corresponding nation - is extremist speech. Nations, like all other corporations, are like organisms themselves. They might still act beneficial to their population, but never at the cost of their own survival.