Nationalism is a Test.

Nationalism: If you cannot hold a territory (country) and form a state( monopoly) then the market for territorial monopoly has spoken: you are a failed people.

A Country, meaning a State, either serves nation, tribe, clan, and family, or it destroys nation, tribe, clan and family.

It’s not that a state is a bad thing. It’s that commercial revenue interests evolve to trump the interests of nation, tribe, clan and family.