It doesn't though. Qing-period China? Clearly a state. Han period China - also clearly a state! Tokugawa-era Japan? Very clearly a state. There are indigenous American states too - lots in Mesoamerica, but I think the Iroquois also probably ought to qualify.
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Both in practice - he is imagining a polity that clearly has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force - and in intellectual conception as an entity controlled by but distinct from its ruler.
So while this concept as it informed Weber and from him modern political science came from the European tradition, it didn't have to. It's the mistake of declaring physics unavoidably Eurocentric because Isaac Newton was a Brit.
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And as a classification and description, it has tremendous value because non-state actors often function quite differently from states, both today and historically. I see little doubt that if the term did not exist, we should have to invent it.
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But obviously that doesn't make physics inapplicable outside of a European setting, nor the effort to understand the physical laws of the universe in which we live something that was ever confined to Europe.
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