penwing reads (they/them) quoted The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle)
On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female …
... Hate Orgoreyn? No, how should I? How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain ploughland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing ...
— The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle) (Page 184 - 185)
This may be the book about gender, but, bloody hell, is it powerful on patriotism...