Today I've learned that Switzerland is "nation of volition". I roughly knew about this, but didn't know the term existed.
It let me to reflect about weird situation in my past.
While living in the US before 2022 (full scale invasion of Ukraine by russia) I would hear from few people (some I knew and some were random taxi drivers) that Ukraine shouldn't exist as a state, because many people spoke russian language or that there is no difference between Ukrainian and russian languages(yes, I know, some people have no idea what they are talking about).
Even at the time that was a ridiculous argument. I didn't want to argue much about the language thing, because people who maid such claims knew very little and they held strong belief there.
But what was funny is that those conversations were happening in the US (country that uses language(s) that came from Europe) and those conversations were initiated by people who grew up in the Spanish speaking countries of Latin America - where each state that exist uses Spanish or English as official language.
Plus on top of that those people didn't know or didn't want to consider that language doesn't create country. The will and desire of people that live on the territory is the source of the statehood.