independent mini-nation

English

Etymology

Calque of Japanese ミニ独立国 (minidokuritsukoku, “mini-independent country”).

Transposed from alternative form mini-independent country to add emphasis on "mini-nation".

Noun

independent mini-nation (plural independent mini-nations)

  1. Alternative form of mini-independent country.
    • 1998, Stephen Vlastos, Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 121:
      These republics are among the "independent mini-nations" (mini dokuritsu koku) that have been founded throughout Japan since the late 1970s for a variety of overlapping objectives, including attracting tourists both to increase revenues and to counter the adverse effects of the out-migration of young adults.
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