Puppet ruler

A puppet ruler is a person who holds a title of political authority, but is loyal to or coerced by outside persons or groups. When a foreign government wields such outside control, the puppet ruler's territory is referred to as a puppet state. Internal factors, such as non-elected officials, may also exert power over the puppet monarch. A figurehead monarch, as a source of legitimacy and perhaps divine reign, has been the used form of government in numerous circumstances and places throughout history.

There are two basic forms of puppet monarchs: a figurehead monarch who is a puppet of another person or a group in the country who rules instead of the nominal ruler; and a puppet government, who is occupied or under the controlling influence of a foreign power. Examples of the first type are the Emperors who were the puppets of the shōguns of Japan and the kings who were the puppets of the mayors of the palace in the Frankish kingdom. Client kingdoms under the Roman Republic and Roman Empire and the Empire of Japan's colonial relationship with the Manchukuo under Puyi are examples of the second type.

Incumbent rulers may rely on puppet rulers to circumvent term limits.^[1]

لا يشترط أن يكون الحاكم صوريًا حاكمًا وطنيًا أو حتى شخصًا حقيقيًا. على سبيل المثال، كان أوسكار ك. ألين معروفًا على نطاق واسع بأنه كان دمية في يد هيوي لونغ أثناء توليه منصب حاكم ولاية لويزيانا . ^{[ 5 ]} كانت حكومة مانشوكو خاضعة لسيطرة الحكومة اليابانية.