EPR-radar posted... Why the fuck are people caring about the official name of a country for stuff like this, when the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (i.e., North Korea) is a sufficient counterexample?
North Korea is not a Republic no matter what it pretends to be. It is a dictatorship, and if it must be mapped onto this archaic distinction, it maps to a monarchy, not to a republic.
What name the country has and what form of government it has are not the same thing. North Korea isn't democratic either.
Saying that a country has a non-indicative name isn't proof of anything.
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