No, that is a political entity also known as a nation-state.

There are nations with and without their own nation-states.

The Kurds are an example of a nation without a state. The Jews are a nation formerly without one, but now with one since 1948.

The American nation does exist. It is a distinct people (not to be confused with a country, or a nation-state, etc etc), as I have been patiently trying to explain for over a dozen posts.

If you're unable to parse the concept because of some prior miseducation or an unacknowledged conflict with your worldview, sorry but can't help you there.

By "US", do you specifcally mean the United States of America?

Because I know who and what I am, where I come from, how and for exaxtly whom America was originally founded for, and the discernment to know the difference between America the nation, the nation-state, the country and its territories.

There is the "America" the nation (comprised of the _actual_ American people), and America the country (the territory) that the American nation occupies, along with several other nations and diasporas.

They are distinct things and concepts.

It depends on who you ask and how clear a sense of their own identity that person has.

I think have articulated my own identity as an American national, with a massive hat tip to John Jay, clear.

There are a lot of people living here that don't even know what a nation actually is, much less what the six elements of being an American are.

I can't answer for them regardless.

Fair enough, it just seems like a huge burden to take on when you can buy a pair of Yubikeys for $100 and then be done with it.

It's not a single nation anymore, that is correct.

Race is one aspect of nationhood, see the "shared ancestry" element.

I don't have the capability of manufacturing such a device in the same form factor, not developing or supported the software and support infrastructure.

People that don't meet the six elements of being American as stated by John Jay, and referenced earlier.

Well, maybe at first it is, but later as organization at the societial level plays out, and larger national "super tribes" are formed, it all depends on your view of how "voluntary" the exit costs are I suppose.

The actual American nation does not include everyone living in the border of the territory under the political control of the U.S. government.

For example, the Kurds are a nation, but they have no nation-state to protect them.

Therefore they suffer.

There is still a distinct American nation but it doesn't include paper or hyphenated "Americans".

Modern day "America" is increasingly a witches brew of incompatible nations vying for political and economic power of the state.

That's why it has so much division.

What's your dissatisfaction with Yubikeys?

It's not illogical to form a team to protect a people's interests.

While the Libertarian critique of the institution of the state does have some valid points when viewed through the materialistic lens of property rights, it does not account for game theory law of the jungle power dynamics posed by competing nations that have organized themselves into nation-states.

See my other response regarding John Jay's articulation of the concept please.

Your understanding of the term nation is incorrect.

According to American Founder John Jay in Federalist 2, there are six elements for BEING American: shared ancestry, shared language, shared religion, similar conceptions of government and law, a shared culture, and a shared historical experience.

A nation is a people. You are conflating the term nation, with the nation-state, an institution that was created ostensibly to protect, care for and nurture the development of a particular nation.