A community is a group of people (or organisms) that interact within there daily lives and share the same environment. A state is a semi-independent body that is composed of many communities all under the same laws and regulations. A society is a group of people who share the same values, culture, and tastes. A nation is a group of people who share a cultural heritage and who work together to preserve there heritage and costums. Most often, nations are often-times large states but sometimes their can be many nations (or national identities) within a state or several different states can form the same nation.

To have a central place where collections of printed materials can be kept and cateloged for easy reference and access !!

And, to give librarians someplace to go during the day and harass people for saying anything !!

Oh, yeah, and — a place where people, who have totalled out their own computers with viruses and malware — can access the internet and ruin the public computers for everyone else !!

what are the differences between community, state, society and nation ?

A nation is usually a country made up of several states that is made up of multiple communities — all of which collectively are known as a society OR, of course, a society Could be one of those little groups of people who don’t see themselves as being a part of anything other THAN themselves — so they Call themselves a society !!