"Country" is also ambiguous. Lots of "countries" are not independent, e.g. the UK is made up of four "countries" - England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Irelan

"Country" is also ambiguous. Lots of "countries" are not independent, e.g. the UK is made up of four "countries" - England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Similarly, the "Land" example I used above for the German federal subjects literally means "country". "Governmental actor" would be a better international-friendly term for use in computer security, outside of the parochial world of US national security discourse.