@Boxcar But nations are much more than mere borders

Makes me think of Cool Runnings

I just watched the video of Rob Burrow getting carried across the finish line of the London Marathon. I don't follow Rugby but that looked very emotional.

MC Vice, Andy [link]

But obviously that's not the case.

I would agree that if borders did not exist all of those things have nothing to do with the nation.

At the nation level is is precisely that. At the state level it is hard to apply individually, but we've talked mostly about countries so far, which is technically the wrong term to investigate here.