A "Nation State" is a sovereign nation. A group with definite territory that legitimizes it's right to rule by the fact that it exists. A "City State" is like a nation state but smaller, it's a city and it's territories. ... Cities that were only responsible to themselves, they weren't ruled by any higher power.
So they wouldn't have to sacrifice there people and would have an alliance but George wasn't willing to do this hope this helped because you posted 6min ago
The government can help manage the country better than a smaller government.<span />