I wasn't actually trying to distinguish away from states but rather from nations. I understand "nation" to have a specific meaning centered around sovereignty within indigenous scholarship. I should've just used "state" but I didn't think it'd sound as edgy
A nation state is a corporation with a monopoly on violence
and also that initially took power through violence.
I'm not sure why you specified nation-states when this is just as likely to happen in any state.
Like me they probably assumed nation-state was just another word for state.
I wasn't actually trying to distinguish away from states but rather from nations. I understand "nation" to have a specific meaning centered around sovereignty within indigenous scholarship. I should've just used "state" but I didn't think it'd sound as edgy