Country tune's reflective, entertaining with little life (3,5)
I believe the answer is:
sri lanka
'country' is the definition.
(I know that Sri Lanka is a country)
'tune's reflective entertaining with little life' is the wordplay.
'tune's' becomes 'air's' (air can mean a piece of music).
'reflective' is a reversal indicator.
'entertaining' is an insertion indicator.
'with little life' becomes 'lank' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'airs' reversed gives 'sria'.
'sria' placed around 'lank' is 'SRI LANKA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sri lanka that I've seen before include "Country off the southeast coast of India" , ""The teardrop of India"" , "Island country in the Indian Ocean" , "South Asian republic" , "land" .)