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Most counties which formed by separating from an empire.
I mean, I guess you'd need to narrow the definition a bit.
I was thinking of a lot of former colonialised nations, but lots of those also have history of conquest before they became colonised.
Then Finland? Well, by our actions, pretty much. But O can't say that it was because people didn't want to.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Finland
Perhaps "proto-imperialist" would be better suited to describe that. Well, irredentist, officially. (Rather rare, didn't know that word.)
Bit of a problem there, yeah. This hostage taker needs to define both "imperialist" and "country", or I'm shoving his ass into 2006-founded Montenegro and accepting zero complaints about it.