Puppet state
A puppet state is a country that is officially independent but is not so in practice. Puppet governments are usually kept in power by military force provided by an occupying country and are strongly controlled. Puppet states are generally not internationally recognized by most countries, except by the countries which control them and by a few other countries.
It is a biased term and is used in criticizing the government of the alleged puppet state.
Puppet State Media
The First French Empire and its satellite states in 1812
Map of the British Indian Empire, with princely states in yellow
Location of Manchukuo (red) within Imperial Japan's sphere of influence
Wang Jingwei receiving German diplomats as head of state of the Reorganised Nationalist Government of the Republic of China in 1941
German-occupied Europe at the height of the Axis conquests in 1942
Map of Bantustans in South West Africa (present-day Namibia) as of 1978
Abkhazian President Alexander Ankvab with Transnistrian President Yevgeny Shevchuk in 2013. Both Abkhazia and Transnistria have been described as puppet states of Russia.
Map of territorial control in Yemen
