Civilization V Solo Reports

[novice]

Actually, the definition I've learned for a Nation State is a state whose political and cultural boundaries match*, so I'd rather say that all Civ nations are nation states.

*That's paraphrased. More(?) precisely, I've heard it defined as a nation whose borders match the extent of its ethnic group, and whose borders aren't home to any other ethnic groups. By this definition, there are only two nation states in all of Europe - do you know which?

Hmm. That's not the definition I learned at all, unsurprisingly given I was growing up in California. Is anything that contains more than one ethnic group supposed to be an empire then?

No, it can be a state or a country, just not a Nation State. But maybe the term doesn't translate well.

Edit: Or maybe it does:

na·tion-state
n.
A political unit consisting of an autonomous state inhabited predominantly by a people sharing a common culture, history, and language.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nation-state