Definition of "narcostate" [narcostate]

• A country that is heavily involved in the trafficking or production of illegal drugs (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Horrifyingly tidy and efficient, when you think about it, everything neatly signed into law, protected by US occupation forces ‘surge’, extracted at just those royalties necessary to keep the national government, army and militia in power, and leave the Afghan people in thirty years just another destitute, resource-stripped, smoking moonscape, narcostate."
• "No US Citizen in their right mind wants to work in that narcostate."
• "Most notably, Colombia went from a failed narcostate to a solid, stable, and growing nation in just 15 years."