I have been reading The Russian President's address given in February.
(http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70565) .
His vision for Russia is broad and far-reaching. if Russian was not such an inscrutable language one might wish to move there!
I notice his use of Motherland and Fatherland and the distinct understanding he makes between these terms.
E.g. " .The people must know that the Motherland appreciates their contribution to the defence of the Fatherland".
If a politician used such terms publicly here in Australia It would offer a very different meaning to the many people here than it must do in Russia - and perhaps Europe.
And I suspect such a sense of belonging is different when many people around the world would consider a planet or star somewhere else in the galaxy to be their mother land ( home) and not the beautiful Gaia, to which we/they have come as a rescue/ energy boost.
It seems worth considering these terms, especially when we have a Divine Mother and Divine Father as well, it seems, as a Motherland and Fatherland.