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In the field of international relations, a client state, is a state that is economically, politically, and militarily subordinated to a more powerful controlling state.[1] Alternative terms[according to whom?] for a client state are satellite state, associated state, and dominion, condominium, self-governing colony, and neo-colony, protectorate, vassal state, puppet state, and tributary state.