I'd rather have no countries, just like the earth was intended to be.
But if you have to have governments (and brainlets will want to have it), having many different countries is still better than 1 world government.
Because as he put it, at least there's a place to escape to.

But one thing he didn't really seem to notice, even if you live under an extremely oppressive tyrannical regime, basically as long as you stay off the government's radar, it's really not going to be much of an issue.
It's a whole different story if they start bombing innocent people, I mean spreading freedom and DEMONcracy.