Rhodesia

Rhodesia is an unrecognized state in Southern Africa. It was preceded by a federation comprising the former British colonies of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Following World War II, the colonies began to draw in vast numbers of white settlers from other former colonies during the process of European decolonization, along with various supporters of pro-Axis factions and regimes during the War. The country had close relations with the former state of South Africa to its south, owing to their similar policies of segregation and statuses as African states dominated by a minority white population descended from European settlers. After the Republic of South Africa was overthrown in the Azanian Revolution during the 1970s, Rhodesia sponsored a coup d'etat by far-right elements in the South African military against the interim government, and attempting a joint occupation with putschist forces of South African territory, triggering the First Bush War.

Today, Rhodesia is often considered to be an international pariah state due to its ingrained system of legally formalized ethnic discrimination and segregation, widespread crimes against humanity committed during the war with Azania, and its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). As such, it is not a member of the Alliance of Free States, although it remains largely pro-capitalist and anti-communist in terms of foreign policy orientation.