A banana republic is a third-world country in which few people do much of anything productive, and most people depend on government welfare, while the government is basically a machinery for ...

When Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for new elections aimed at ending the current government in Israel ... We are not a banana republic.” Netanyahu found a receptive ear ...

The United States doesn't fully meet the definition of a banana republic—we don't have an economy dependent on resources, like bananas. But in terms of unstable politics in which government ...