Groups that refer to their homeland as a "father" include
'Das Vaterland' is the land that ones father was born and died in. (Sample American song "my country...land where my fathers died ....")
'Die Muttererde' ( mother earth) is the ground and soil that one plants and harvests , die Heimat (homeland).
While father is male = Der Vater
and mother is female = Die Mutter
fatherland is both or it = Das Land , referring to the land
as in the child = Das Kind