I think the term nation state precludes the lack of a significant governing body by its own definition. In terms of applying anarchism to the real world, I'd have to be in Rousseau's boat in the sense that you can't have it for populations larger than a certain size. Meanwhile, in regards to his continuum wherein the larger the population, the more authoritarian you need the governing body to be, I feel that the US is held in a sort of halfway limbo by the nature of individual states governing their own populations with an amount of sovereignty, being united only on certain levels by a federal government.
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