What are informal mandates?

it is like a colony

In the aftermath of WWI. The German and Ottoman empires were broken-up and administered by the winners as a halfway-house to independence.

Informal social control consists of all those mechanisms and practices of ordinary, everyday life whereby group pressures to conform are brought to bear against the individual.

Generally understood behavior. It is not written down or enforced by the law.

Informal imperialism is when an empire’s client state retains its sovereignty.