Take a country like South Sudan for example. Of course they have their citizenship laws over there. However, how did the first citizens of the nation acquire it? It can’t be based on whether you were born there or not because there was no defined country for you to be born in. And if it’s based on descent, same problem. Your parents couldn’t have been born in a country that doesn’t exist. Did South Sudan just not have de jure citizens at first?
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Generally, they just say “everyone who lives here gets citizenship”. There are exceptions though. When Lithuania declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, they didn’t actually declare independence, but rather declared the restoration of their independence, a continuation of the Lithuanian Republic that was conquered by the Soviets in 1940. They also said that only those who had ancestors with Lithuanian citizenship in 1940 would get Lithuanian citizenship. This was a problem for the hundreds of thousands of Russians that had been planted in Lithuania by the USSR during the occupation. These people didn’t get Lithuanian citizenship, but because they didn’t live in Russia, they also didn’t get Russian citizenship.
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