It's as much a state as the premodern things we called states back when what is now the developed world was run by warlords with fancy titles and claims to have a divine right to rule.
But it's not a modern state (basically an advanced bureaucratic state) and it'd be better if we kept things that way.
It's as much a state as the premodern things we called states back when what is now the developed world was run by warlords with fancy titles and claims to have a divine right to rule.
But it's not a modern state (basically an advanced bureaucratic state) and it'd be better if we kept things that way.