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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The country will pass a law that unilaterally accepts some people as their citizens.
For example, when the Soviet Union dissolved, the new countries had passed a decree that say: “all USSR citizens in our borders are now our citizens”.
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