A puppet state (also puppet government, marionette government) is a nominal sovereign who is, in reality, controlled by a foreign power.^[1] The term refers to a government controlled by the government of another country like a puppeteer controls the strings of a marionette.^[2] A puppet state has also been described as an entity which in fact lacks independence, preserves all the external paraphernalia of independence, but in reality is only an organ of another state who has set it up and whose satellite it is.^[3]