The policy practitioners in the World Bank, OECD, and other development agencies used the term ‘fragile state’ during 1990s before using of the term ‘failed state’. The failure to provide security to the citizens, failure to provide public services, including health, and monopoly of state violence are three central components that define ‘failed state’. The incubation and spread of deadly diseases are also among the many features of a failed state as outlined by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in its 2004 report. The Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) on Issues of Public International Law has defined failed state or state failures as “the impotence of the central government.”. The bourgeois intellectuals started using the term without questioning the validity of its core concepts. The Failed State Index was designed by the Funds for Peace in 2005. There is no empirical evidence or justification behind such an index. But the think tanks and academicians started using such a sham index to rank states in terms of their abilities, and efficiency in dealing with different forms of crisis and frame policies accordingly.