Meaning of pseudonation | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

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

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

“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.”

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