Liberia, USA

Liberia doesn't declare it's independence and instead stays with the United States and is a ble to haggle out a deal to make it an autonomous territry for the time being in the mid 1800's. After a long while and some turbulence it would become an US Commonwealth, today Liberia is a prosperous part of the United States and has been famously called "An island of prosperity in an sea of turbulence".

Liberia (Liberia, USA)

List of Governors of Liberia (Liberia, USA)

ACS (Liberia, USA)