too many "countries"?

From: Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Date: Tue Feb 24 1998 - 19:43:27 MST

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John Clark writes
: I think countries suck and there are too many of them already ...

You mean the existing countries are (on average) too small?
I would say the problem is rather that too many countries have
central authorities.

Please, let's distinguish:
        country (territory)
        nation (maximal self-identified distinct set of people)
        state (monopoly of legitimized coercion)
        sovereignty (any entity with no overlord)

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