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City centre layabout in the country (5)

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I believe the answer is:

italy

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'the country' is the definition.
(Italy is an example)

'city centre layabout' is the wordplay.
'city centre' becomes 'it' (centre of the word 'city').
'layabout' becomes 'aly' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'it'+'aly'='ITALY'

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for italy that I've seen before include "Founder member of the EEC" , "Mediterranean nation" , "Country of southern Europe" , "Europe's boot, home to the Mafia" , "Land of Tuscany and Umbria" .)

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