Sovereign island country in Polynesia.

Country in Oceania, diverse cultures.

a World War II–era puppet state of Nazi Germany"Croatia" .

the systematic persecution and extermination of Serbs committed during World War II by the fascist Ustaše regime in the Nazi German puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia between 1941 and 1945.

The independent state legislature theory or independent state legislature doctrine is a judicially rejected legal theory that posits that the Constitution of the United States delegates authority to regulate federal elections within a state to that state's elected lawmakers without any checks and balances from state constitutions, state courts, governors, ballot initiatives, or other bodies with legislative power (such as constitutional conventions or independent commissions).