Editing Puppet state (section)

==Terminology==
The term is a metaphor which compares a state or government to a [[puppet]] controlled by a [[puppeteer]] with strings.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shapiro|first=Stephen|url=https://archive.org/details/ultrahushhushesp00step|title=Ultra Hush-hush|publisher=Annick Press|year=2003|isbn=1-55037-778-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/ultrahushhushesp00step/page/38 38]|quote=Puppet state: a country whose government is being controlled by the government of another country, much as a puppeteer controls the strings on a marionette|url-access=registration}}</ref> The first recorded use of the term "puppet government" was in 1884, in reference to the [[Khedivate of Egypt]].<ref name="etymoline">{{cite web|last1=Harper|first1=Douglas|title=puppet (n.)|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=puppet&allowed_in_frame=0|access-date=1 June 2014|website=Online Etymology Dictionary}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=May 2023}}

In the [[Middle Ages]], [[vassal state]]s existed based on delegation of the rule of a country by a king to noble men of lower rank. Since the [[Peace of Westphalia]] of 1648, the concept of a nation came into existence where [[Westphalian system|sovereignty]] was connected more to the people who inhabited the land than to the nobility who owned the land.

An earlier similar concept is [[suzerainty]], the control of the external affairs of one state by another.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}