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What is the “No Country” referring to in “No Country For Old Men?”

Maybe that’s the lib anti-US creeping in there?

I have to read the book but I think 'Country' in NCfOM refers to Texas and law enforcement there. Tommy Lee Jones starts out as a grizzled police chief, going around doing his duty and caring about his work, but every day it seems his heart's not in it: each new murder scene seems more senseless, each new perp seems more psychopathic.

Then we later find out that his father was shot and paralyzed on the job as one of the 'old timers' he describes, and THEN we find out that Tommy Lee Jones' grandfather was shot on his own front porch in a senseless shooting back in the 30's.

So it appears to me that as Tommy Lee Jones takes all of this in, he comes to the conclusion that it doesn't matter how good a job you do, the bad guys are gonna win and evil will still be there. And so he decides to retire, and after that you can just see in his eyes that his life has no purpose and he is just waiting to die...a pretty grim thing to take from a movie...;-))