And so there is no reason that the term 'state' has to be western-centric in that way. When that happens, the problem is in the scholar, not the term.
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...a whole spectrum of levels of state-ness and non-state-ness. And almost any time spent in the security-studies or poli-sci space will reveal quite a lot of that discussion going on. But to have that discussion, there has to be some sense of what a state is for classification
I understand the instinct to reduce everything to 'communities,' - each one resembling only itself - but there are reasons we classify things for greater understanding. 'State' is a useful classification, understood to exist on a spectrum, to apply to polities.