The phrase "a nation based on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the foundational principles or values that a nation is built upon, often in discussions about governance, culture, or identity.
Example: "The Constitution outlines the rights and freedoms that define a nation based on democracy and justice."
Alternatives: "a country founded on" or "a state built upon".
We are a nation based on Judeo-Christian values".
We became a nation based on the volume of the dollar".
"A shift to a nation based on extraconstitutional authority is prohibited, as well as ill advised".
We are now, as we have been from the moment of our founding, a nation based on the rule of law.
"We are a nation based on the rule of law so we need to accept that this was the special jury's decision to make," he said.
Saddam Hussein & his Baath Party, whose political control of the country is uncontested, have made it clear that their first priority is to forge a nation based on secular principles.
Who in 1700 could have predicted the events of the next 100 years the Enlightenment, Britain's beating France for control of all of North America; the American Revolution, whereby a people created a new nation based on principles inchoate a century before; the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror and the rise of nationalism?
The Constitution, in Starr's telling, represented less a momentous decision to create a new nation based on the principles of freedom and democracy than an organic continuation of existing practices; the distinctive Americanness of the document lay in its simple language and wide dissemination.
The idea for Stelle (pronounced stell) emerged in 1963, when Mr. Kieninger, under the pen name Eklal Kueshana, published "The Ultimate Frontier," a book about a young man who was instructed by an ancient "Brotherhood" of scientist-philosophers to build a new nation based on karmic principles and the Golden Rule.
It indulged in violent demolition of a mosque and has been selling the pipedream of establishing a Hindu nation based on ancient mythological templates of governance.
No, the vision that we can be a successful nation based on global finance returning profits like those above while the broad middle class falls behind, and a major city fails, is not one that most Americans would or should support.
