Postsident

Postsident: noun. A democratically elected leader of a country which no longer exists. To be a postsident, one can be elected as a president and then lose the country one was elected in, or one can be directly elected as a postsident (though no one is quite sure what that might be good for). An example of a postsident was Edvard Beneš who, after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, fled to Britain where he headed a government in exile and was incorrectly addressed by everyone as 'president.'