[France is used to being patient on this point. While he's always been certain of his existence, centuries of experience has taught him humans tend to have a difficult time understanding how their country, let alone foreign ones, can have their own, human-like form. It does please him, actually, that Ellis is putting in such an effort to try to wrap his head around the concept.]

I know it must seem a bit odd to you, but it's true. Every state has a Nation that embodies it. I've been around two thousand years, give or take a few hundred.