A country is made of large swats of agriculture land populated by simple folks who are one with their surroundings and bussy with their daily lives. Meanwhile, at the coast of each country there's an overcrowded brutalist eyesore connected with other brutalist eyesores inhabited by disconnected metropolitans who think themselves most important and in charge of everything.
You just described every country ever.
A country is made of large swats of agriculture land populated by simple folks who are one with their surroundings and bussy with their daily lives. Meanwhile, at the coast of each country there's an overcrowded brutalist eyesore connected with other brutalist eyesores inhabited by disconnected metropolitans who think themselves most important and in charge of everything.