>The nation state does not exist because of boundaries occurring in nature. Open a map and see just how many borders both historically and today were mountain

>The nation state does not exist because of boundaries occurring in nature. Open a map and see just how many borders both historically and today were mountain ranges, rivers and other terrain that served as a natural border. >The nation state does not exist because it describes the places where different ethnic groups live. For the most part it very much does. The few exceptions were this didn’t happen and the nation failed to develop a new national ethnic identity those experiments ended up in disaster, see Lebanon, The Balkans etc. >The nation state does not exist to circumscribe natural regions of trade. Historically this is very much how city states and later on nation states came to be, even during the imperial age this trade was a key factor in how administrative and autonomous regions came to be.