"tin-pot dictatorship" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1979, John Wainwright, Death of a Big Man, Berkley, page 37",
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          "ref": "2007, John Hossein Ghazvinian, Untapped, Harcourt",
          "text": "Though venality rather than thuggery is the dominant characteristic of the Gabonese political system, to an outsider the distinction is not always clear and the country can look like a classic tin-pot dictatorship—a sort of banana republic (with the part of the bananas played by Cameroonian understudies)",
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