Afghanistan has many of the trappings of a nation-state.
More recently, groups of "geo fiction" enthusiasts have drawn up plans for imaginary countries complete with their own flags, monetary systems, stamps, constitutions, legislatures -- in short, all the trappings of a real nation.
When he died, just over a year after Pakistan's creation, he had left behind all the trappings of a state, but not even the trace of a nation.
Countries like Iraq and Afghanistan may take on the trappings of modern, Western nation-states, with parliaments, justice departments and other governmental agencies, researchers say.
Seized in 1297 by a Genoan adventurer, Francesco Grimaldi, the rocky promontory has been transformed by his descendants into a principality that flaunts the trappings of a modern nation-state: it has its own flag, passports and stamps, and seats at the United Nations and the Council of Europe.
As such, it enjoys the perquisites and protective trappings of the modern nation-state, including the use of North Korean embassies and state-run businesses abroad, and the reluctance of other nations to intervene in the sovereign affairs of North Korea.
The country lacks many of the trappings of a state.
They say Russia is a multiethnic, pluralistic nation and risks alienating its large Muslim minority if Russian Orthodoxy takes on the trappings of a state religion.
The affordability, exoticism and laissez faire notions that come with trekking to developing nations to party also bring with them the trappings of more fragile and uncharted state relations.
China The resource-hungry nation doesn't care about corporate governance, the trappings of democracy or transparency; it just wants oil, gas and weapons.
