Depending on the context (also: historical time) of the situation, mutual agreement between the two places and the terms actually used in their legal documents, it could be:
a dependency
a colony
a territory (for example: Puerto Rico is an unincorporated US territory)
and some others: people in the past have used different words to mask the fact that they dominate another country against their will...
Americans need elbow room because it's better to be cozy then not cozy
The answer is the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
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door rhymes with store
bell rhymes with tell
so ABAB
