We extend the functorial approach to automata by Colcombet and Petri\c{ s}an [arXiv:1712.07121] from the category of sets to any elementary topos with a natural number object and establish general Myhill-Nerode theorems in our setting. As a special case we recover the result of Boja\'nczyk, Klin and Lasota [arXiv:1402.0897] for orbit-finite nominal automata by considering automata in the Myhill-Schanuel topos of nominal sets.
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