An Imagined community is how Anderson describes the central cause for the belief in nationalism. Citizens have a strong belief in nationalism because the community in which they are apart of is imagined. "It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them , or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion." Members of the community never truly know a vast majority of the nation, yet they feel drawn together because of the false belief of the imagined community. Anderson further develops on the idea by using national anthems as an example. "At precisely such moments people wholly unknown to each other utter the same verses to the same melody. The image: unisonance" Members of the communtity feel connected as they sing, somehow related, but in reality all that connects them is sound.