Failed State is one that is not able to enforce own laws, which impose obligations and grant rights to its citizens, by action or omission, their Governments are incapable of doing so as possible and have lost control of the situation at a very high level. This is independent of the type of regime of a country and its more or less democratic character. It's a massive lack of harmony between the written law and the real fulfillment of the same.
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