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There are and were a very large number of republics in the world. A republican form of government can be combined with many different kinds of political and economic systems, from dictatorship to democracy and from a market economy to a planned economy. Some examples for certain forms of republic are:

Antiquity

Middle Ages and Renaissance

Enlightenment and later

Unitary republics
Unitary republics are unitary states which are governed constitutionally as one single unit, with a single constitutionally created legislature.

Federal republics
Federal republics are federal states in which the administrative divisions (states or provinces) retain a degree of autonomy which is constitutionally protected, and cannot be revoked unilaterally by the national government.

Confederal republics
Confederal republics are associations of sovereign states, usually having power over critical common issues such as defence and foreign affairs:

Arab Republics

Islamic Republics
Republics governed in accordance with Islamic law:

Democratic Republics
These are republics which use the word "democratic" in their official name. Their actual political systems can be very different, and some are arguably not democratic at all.

Socialist Republics
These are republics which use the word "socialist" in their official name. Their actual economic systems can be very different, and some are arguably not socialist at all.

People's Republics
Meant to be governed by the people, this name is most often (but not always) used by communist states.

Former People's Republics:

Republicanism

共和国 | 共和国

 

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the "List of republics".

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