I think this sort of thing is interesting because this is a feature of everyday English, but not necessarily one in other languages, so translations might have

I think this sort of thing is interesting because this is a feature of everyday English, but not necessarily one in other languages, so translations might have to clarify it. Similar features include relevance conditionals aka biscuit conditionals: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24497 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=24497 and ambient "it": https://www.thoughtco.com/dummy-it-in-grammar-1690414 https://www.thoughtco.com/dummy-it-in-grammar-1690414 Btw, I guess countries themselves temporally begin with a creation event, but spatially begin at a location.