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The term 'puppet state' is used to describe nominal sovereigns under effective foreign control...
Puppet state: a country whose government is being controlled by the government of another country, much as a puppeteer controls the strings on a marionette
[...] an allegedly independent, but 'actually' dependent, i.e. puppet State [...].
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)In most cases, puppet States are created by the occupant during occupation of a State, for the purpose of circumventing the former's international responsibility regarding the violation of the rights of the occupied State.
The creation of puppet states or of puppet governments does not give them any special status under international law in the occupied territory. Therefore the puppet governments and puppet states have no greater rights in the occupied territory than the occupant himself. Their actions should be considered as actions of the occupant and hence subject to the limitations of the Hague Regulations.