The role that Fourth World nations play in state breakdown and collapse is little studied and yet vital to understanding how to create stable political structures. Most multinational states are short-lived and fragile because they are incapable of generating a single cultural life that is sustainable. The failure of nations to resist expansion and consolidation leads to assimilation and the destruction of that nation.
Assimilation is far less common than break-up.
More than ninety percent of all states that have ever existed ended in collapse. On average, nearly three states per year have emerged since 1945. This shows that large states are rapidly fragmenting into smaller states and nation-states. On average, nations outlast states. Friesland predates all the states that claim her by more than a thousand years.