However, they were certainly in no way exceptional, and the state survived despite, not because of, their efforts.

Many have to die that the state will survive.

It is true that other states survive without pro sports.

Besides these seven major states, some minor states also survived into the period.

The other states could have survived if they remained united against Qin, but they did not.

And how would the state survive without it's army of part-time middle-aged female administrators on over 30k a year?

He died shortly afterwards, in June 1885, though the state he founded survived him.

A state that does not back up its fighters will not survive.

After all, even a state with 82 million people, such as the one I represent, will not survive intercontinental competition in the long term.

At issue is the fundamental question of how a Communist state can best survive.