Mutapa remained nominally independent, though practically a client state.
Rome's borders in the east were governed indirectly in this period, through a system of client states, which led to less direct campaigning than in the west.
Often working in collaboration, donors make plain to the client state that it must shape up politically or lose access to credit.
In this case, the "host" member state is the member state in which the branch is located and not the client state.
During proxy wars, the major powers provided aid and support to their respective client state.
Any client state which is different from the policy description is reverted to the desired state.
The result was the creation of a client state whose meager and unpredictable cash crop earnings were supplemented with increasing infusions of foreign aid.
Many of these client states served as the base for different commercial groups.
