With all due respect, I’ve simply never heard anyone use these terms “correctly”. I live in an English-speaking country, and the closest thing I’ve seen to this

With all due respect, I’ve simply never heard anyone use these terms “correctly”. I live in an English-speaking country, and the closest thing I’ve seen to this is university signs that say things like “this is tiger nation” or something similar. But I’ve also seen people use “country” to express that too. I assume they’re alternating not because it’s AI written but because the author considered them synonymous and wanted it to sound less repetitive. These words are just so overloaded that I think this is a lost battle. People hike in the back-country, you can live in the city or the country. And frankly if you used “nation” to represent a cultural group of people in almost any context I think people would not understand or worse - assume you were stoking some racial angst or land-dispute.