nation

The Roma are a nation without a country.

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […] perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.

Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland.

[…]and what a nation of herbs he had procured to mollify her humours, &c. &c.[…]