free countries

Noun

free country (plural free countries)

1. A country that protects the civil liberties of its citizens; a country whose government is not despotic.
   • Now we should like to know whether, in a free country like this, and under a government instituted for no earthly object but to establish equality of rights and equality of protection — we should like to know, we say, whether a poor man has not a vested interest in a cheap coat, and whether his...1840, Condy Raguet, The Principles of Free Trade
2. A sovereign or independent country.
   • The collapse of the imperialist colonial system has complicated the problem of marketing for capitalists in two ways. Positively from the angle of international monopoly capital, the struggle of the newly free countries for economic independence and their first steps towards the creation of a...1978, Clarence J. Munford, Production Relations, Class and Black Liberation, →ISBN