"Achievement-based pride is just a character flaw, especially if it's personal pride, which makes you a twerp. Pride in your population means gratitude for their centuries of labour, appreciation for the inheritance they gave you, the desire to preserve this inheritance instead of squandering it, passing it down to future generations, and teaching future generations to preserve this inheritance. Personal pride is anti-social, post-factum, ultimately transitory and aimless; population pride is pro-social, active, contributing to something lasting and important."