Sovereign nation-states are known to be states with population of people in which the government makes and implement laws which the citizens obey. Also, these states make decision on their own without depending on other states. Furthermore, they make laws that pertain to their foreign policy. Thus, they make social services available to their citizens such as security, infrastructures, education and so on.
Ava is able to do this because of an improvement in selective attention. This is a mechanism to focus on a specific thing in the environment though certain amount of time.