pseudonation

English

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ nation

Noun

pseudonation (plural pseudonations)

1. (politics) An entity that falsely purports or is purported to be a nation.
   • 1973, Forbes, volume 112, page 87:

     Does Minerva, the name of the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom, seem inappropriate for a pseudonation created by some California promoters?

   • 1991, J. N. Nanda, Conflicts and Co-existence, India, page 12:

     Such a pseudonation will have its political parties split into ethnic or religious branches...

   • 2008, Egbert Jahn, Nationalism in Late and Post-Communist Europe, page 45:

     Many state nationalisms are based on nothing more than a putative or postulated nation, i.e. a pseudonation–as became very clear after the fact in the cases of the USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and the GDR.