Civilization state

A civilization state is a country that represents not just a historical territory, ethnolinguistic group, or body of governance, but a unique civilization in its own right. It is distinguished from the concept of a nation state by describing a country's dominant sociopolitical modes as constituting a category larger than a single nation.En Wiki. The term was first coined in the 1990s as a way to describe China, but has also been used to describe nations such as Russia, India, and Turkey.
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Ethno-social complex; Transnational complex; Meta-cultural complex;
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