Family, Clan, Tribe, Nation=Ethnicity. Society=Ethnicity and customs State=Polit

Family, Clan, Tribe, Nation=Ethnicity.
Society=Ethnicity and customs
State=Polity and institutions
Federation=Voluntarily allied Polities
Empire=Involuntarily allied polities

We can exist just fine because we lived for 1000 years as the holy roman empire of germanic peoples, and the various Scandinavians (including anglos) as well. Opposed only by the French and the Russians – both authoritarians.

There is no value in cultural authoritarianism. As we see in Europe, the optimum order is many small ethonostates because they are the lowest power distances, most homogenous, least status competition, greatest redistribution, because there is no need or value of ethnic competition for the control of polity to grant privileges or restrictions to compensate for ethnic differences.

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