 The connection to land is definitional of a nation. The relationship between people and land is not simply assumed: rather, an account is given of the inter-relationship between group culture and land. People who inhabit a certain territory shape the land that they occupy; their culture is mixed with the physical characteristics of the land, and the physical characteristics shape the culture that they develop. Land has value for the people, both objective value, because they improve it in various ways, building places of religious worship and developing cities and irrigating farmland; and subjective value, because the land comes to have symbolic significance for them, as they bury their dead in certain places, build monuments to significant historic achievements or losses, and so on. (Miller 2007: 217–218). In this way, a group comes to have a special relationship to land that they occupy, and can make a better claim to that land than any other group. This argument does not yet justify territorial rights, however. This is established via a further argument that in order to maintain value (subjective and objective) in land, the people need to have jurisdictional authority over it (Miller 2012: 263).