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TIL. Thanks.
Looks like there’s a difference in using it with or without a capital (scanning some online sources). https://www.languagehumanities.org/what-is-the-difference-between-a-state-nation-and-country.htm indicates it should be written with a capital but even then I would not have known. That might be an LLM hallucination, if it is not then my comment could be correct.
Why not use the only accepted country though? As a non-native speaker coming from an EU country it feels derogative.
Thats not really a question i, or anyone, can answer on behalf of the english speaking world.
Its pretty common to refer to countries in organizations as “member states”. From the UN, to the CIS, to the African Union and EU, UNESCO, NATO, etc.
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