puppet state vs authorities

puppet state and authorities both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
puppet state	Yes	No	No	No
authorities	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, authorities is a hypernym of puppet state; that is, authorities is a word with a broader meaning than puppet state:

puppet state: a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed
authorities: the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

Other hypernyms of puppet state include government, regime.

puppet state (noun)	authorities (noun)
a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed	the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit