An organized geopolitical unit

• state
• polity
• nation
• land
• body politic

A particular area used for or associated with a specific individual or activity

• turf
• territory
• terrain
• region
• district

A rural area

• god's country
• countryside

Of or relating to the countryside

• hick
• rustic
• rural
• provincial
• pastoral
• campestral
• bucolic
• arcadian

Said of people, manners, etc.

• hick
• uncultured
• uncouth
• unrefined
• unpolished
• provincial
• backwoods
• farm
• down-home
• homey
• rustic
• rural
• unsophisticated
• countrified

Said of areas

• back-country
• provincial
• agrarian
• rustic

Rural areas

• the boonies
• the boondocks
• the-sticks
• outback (Australian)
• wilds
• wilderness
• frontier
• the provinces
• the hinterland
• sparsely settled areas
• backwoods
• woodlands
• mountains
• forests
• bush
• back-country
• country district
• rural area
• rural region
• farming district
• farmland
• countryside

A nation

• people
• land
• realm
• sovereign state

Land and all that is associated with it

• mother and apple pie
• the flag
• la patrie (French)
• Vaterland (German)
• roots
• all we hold dear
• patria (Latin)
• mother-country
• motherland
• fatherland
• native-land
• homeland