Help province up country (5)
I believe the answer is:
india
'country' is the definition.
(India is an example)
'help province up' is the wordplay.
'help' becomes 'aid' (synonyms).
'province' becomes 'ni' (short for Northern Ireland, a province of the UK).
'up' is a reversal indicator (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'aid'+'ni'='aidni'
'aidni' back-to-front is 'INDIA'.
(Other definitions for india that I've seen before include "vast country" , "A Passage to - (E.M. Forster)" , "Part of Asia" , "Type of paper, rubber etc" , "Place of Kipling's birth" .)