pseudonation

plural pseudonations

1. governmentAn entity that falsely purports or is purported to be a nation.

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

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

   2 more examples

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

   1973, Forbes, volume 112, page 87

   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.

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