Political theory question

[Ben Kenobi]

Personally the OP theory sounds like like a tautology; the terms were defined such that they included everything, but they don't really add much value to political theory. "Religion" certainly needs to be its own category, for one; it's not really ideology in the same sense it is used for, say, America. And there should also be a category for "common protection from bullies" (ie, grouping together to form one nation because otherwise you're a bunch of little countries that everyone picks on); Germany and Italy both largely exist for that reason (Prussia bullied the other Germanic states into joining, but it was largely by showing them that Prussia was capable of making them a power on the international front.)

Recall it was France who declared war on ALL the German states. Not just Prussia.

[Colonâ„¢]

I'm a little confused by Germany being the example of "one people". Germany is made of quite a few different people, who together make the Germanic tribes... along with the folks in France and some of the British.

"German" is not the same as "Germanic". Read a wiki article on it.