Thai rebuilt capital in independent country (5)
I believe the answer is:
haiti
'country' is the definition.
(Haiti is an example)
'thai rebuilt capital in independent' is the wordplay.
'rebuilt' indicates anagramming the letters.
'capital in' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'independent' is 'i'.
'thai' with letters rearranged gives 'hait'.
'hait'+'i'='HAITI'
(Other definitions for haiti that I've seen before include "earthquake-hit area" , "Caribbean country, capital Port-au-Prince" , "Republic sharing WI isle" , "Caribbean state" , "West part of Hispaniola" .)