plural of mafia state

A system in which the government is tied with organized crime.

Alternative form of pseudostate

A Salafist group active in Libya, Nigeria, Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed an (unrecognized) state. / The unrecognized state (caliphate) proclaimed by this group.

plural of yellow state

plural of green state

plural of vassal state

A state that is subordinate to another; government chiefly directed by the interests of an overlord or patron state.

plural of construct state

(grammar) A noun form associated especially with Afroasiatic languages, but occurring also in Iranian and others; used in construing a nominal with another, particularly for the object of a genitive.