- a variation of ministate.
mini-state
Britishnoun
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If the schoolhouse is a mini-state, it has also become, in many places, a military state.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 3, 2018
In each reprise the focus, invariably, is on Alexander the Great – and who can rightly claim him as their own – and the thorny question of what to call the multi-ethnic mini-state.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2017
In international soccer, the European mini-state of San Marino has yet to win a game in qualification for the European Championship or World Cup despite more than two decades of trying.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2017
Croatia’s minority Serbs, backed by the Serb-led Yugoslav army, took control of large swaths of land and declared their own mini-state.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2016
While the 120 members of the Pope's Swiss Guard carry out ceremonial and guard duties inside the mini-state, the blue-uniformed police are responsible for traffic and border control, and criminal investigations.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2012
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