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Countries with "Democratic" and "Republic" in their name rarely are.


The majority (like over 100) of world countries have Republic in their name.


Or rather if you start aiming for democracy (the actual definition, not the 200 co-opted bastardized definitions,) that's where you always end up, as people from Plato to American founding fathers clearly understood.




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