The phrase "a bandit state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a country or government that engages in illegal or unethical activities, often in a context of international relations or political discourse.
Example: "The international community has condemned the actions of the regime, labeling it as a bandit state that disregards human rights and international law."
Alternatives: "rogue state" or "outlaw state".
In 1996 Moscow signed a truce with the rebels, which postponed a final decision on Chechnya's status and left it to continue its metamorphosis into a quasi-independent bandit state.
In one instance he made a statement that he would promote the first officer to kill a bandit and stated, "I don't believe there is a single bandit notch on a policeman's guns in this city, go out and get some".
The remaining nine years of his life consisted of a series of wars: against a recurring series of terrible attacks; against the "bandit states" of Europe; and against the bureaucratic, Brit-hating wartime culture of Washington.
"But then political enlightenment is not to be expected from a man who maintains that 'I don't see [America] as less evil than the bandit states it has recently fought'".
Pinter had become an increasingly vocal political activist, culminating in his Nobel Lecture, in which he admonished the United States government for its foreign policy, especially involving Iraq, and its moral dereliction: "The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.
A bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the conception of international law".
President Nicolás Maduro went on state television to accuse Hausmann of being a "financial hit man" and a "bandit" who, along with other "savage capitalists," had profited by fomenting rumors of impending doom in Venezuela.
A "bandit," or revolutionist, was usually punished publicly and cruelly as a means of deterring others from challenging the power of the state.
