Sentence:  All their activities in the economic and political sphere were related to the state's law and were performed within the <WSD>statewide</WSD> market for labor and commodities, and their citizen's rights could be exercised in state elections. All these facts and forces favored the identification of the people with their state but they did not explain why this state had to be national, why the national ties were developed simultaneously with the creation of citizen states. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Happening in or affecting an entire sovereign state; nationwide.