Editing Puppet state (section)

==Characteristics==
Puppet states are "endowed with the outward symbols of authority",<ref>[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puppet%20government Puppet government], Merriam-Webster</ref> such as a name, [[National flag|flag]], [[anthem]], [[constitution]], [[Code of law|law codes]], [[motto]], and government, but in reality, are appendages of another state which creates,<ref name="Raic2002">{{cite book |last= Raič |first= David |title= Statehood and the Law of Self-Determination |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=L7UOyPGYBkwC&pg=PA81 |access-date= 13 September 2017 |year= 2002 |publisher= Kluwer Law International |isbn= 90-411-1890-X |page= 81 | quote = In most cases, puppet States are created by the occupant during occupation of a State, for the purpose of circumventing the former's international responsibility regarding the violation of the rights of the occupied State.}}</ref> sponsors or otherwise controls the puppet government. [[International law]] does not recognise [[Military occupation|occupied]] puppet states as [[legitimacy (political)|legitimate]].<ref name="Lemkin2008">
{{cite book
 | last = Lemkin|first= Raphaël|author-link= Raphael Lemkin
 | title = Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=y0in2wOY-W0C&pg=PA11
 | access-date = 30 June 2019 |year= 2008
 | publisher= The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
 | isbn = 978-1-58477-901-8|page= 11 | orig-year = 1944
 | quote = The creation of puppet states or of puppet governments does not give them any special status under international law in the occupied territory. Therefore the puppet governments and puppet states have no greater rights in the occupied territory than the occupant himself. Their actions should be considered as actions of the occupant and hence subject to the limitations of the Hague Regulations.
}}
</ref>

Puppet states can cease to be puppets through:
* military defeat of the "master" state (as in [[Europe]] and [[Asia]] in 1945),
* absorption into the master state (as in the early [[Soviet Union]]), 
* achievement of independence