All 6 Uses of

republic
in
The Poisonwood Bible

So Mr. Patrice will be the Prime Minister of the Congo now and it won't be the Belgian Congo anymore, it will be the Republic of Congo.†
Chpt 2

republic = a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws

On September 14, the army took control of the momentarily independent Republic of Congo, and Lumumba was put under house arrest in Léopoldville, surrounded by Mobutu's freshly purchased soldiers.†
Chpt 4

In the back of a friend's truck, covered with manioc leaves, we left Stanleyville late at night and crossed over into the Central African Republic near Bangassou.†
Chpt 5

The French Congo and the newly independent Republic of Congo are separated by one mere river and about a million miles of contemporaneous modern thinking.†
Chpt 5

And in our bed, which Anatole calls the New Republic of Connubia, my husband tells me the history of the world.†
Chpt 6 *

Definitions:

(1) (republic as in: the country is a republic)
of a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws; or someone in favor of such a form of government
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:

As a proper noun, the word form Republican is commonly used to describe one of the major U.S. political parties. It is and has been used by many other organizations such as The Irish Republican Army.