free state

Etymology
From 🇰🇲, probably a.

Noun

 * 1) A political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state, as with the former Congo Free State and the former Irish Free State.
 * 2) A Federal state, with allegiance to a larger entity, as currently with Germany, and earlier, the relationship between the states of the Holy Roman Empire and the, and later, the states of the  under the.
 * 3) An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status and relationship to other states is undefined.
 * 4) A republic or commonwealth, as with the former Orange Free State, and especially as used for the current United Kingdom to refer to the Commonwealth period under Cromwell.
 * 5)  A condition of not being supported or constrained by outside forces.
 * 6)  Before the American Civil War, any of the states in which the owning of slaves was not legal.
 * 7)  A noun form in Afroasiatic languages contrasting with the  by the noun not being.
 * 1)  A noun form in Afroasiatic languages contrasting with the  by the noun not being.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: vrystaat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 自由國
 * Danish: fristat
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vapaavaltio
 * French: état libre
 * German:
 * Irish: saorstát
 * Japanese: 自由国
 * Russian: свобо́дное госуда́рство


 * Finnish: