Galactic Republic (Star Wars)

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Galactic Republic

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Form of GovernmentFederal Republic--Unicameral--Parliamentary

Related Topics:
Form of Government - Federal Republic - Unicameral - Parliamentary

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Official languageBasic

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Official language - Basic

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CapitalCoruscant

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Capital - Coruscant

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Judicial BranchSupreme Court

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Judicial Branch - Supreme Court

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Legislative and Executive BranchGalactic Senate

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Legislative - Executive Branch - Galactic Senate

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Senate Chair and Head of StateSupreme Chancellor

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Head of State - Supreme Chancellor

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Assistant Senate HeadVice Chair

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Establishment 25,000 BBY

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Reorganization into the Galactic Empire 19 BBY

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Galactic Empire - BBY

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Re-establishment 5 ABY

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CurrencyGalactic Standard Credit (Republic Dataries)

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The Galactic Republic is the name of the interplanetary government used in the fictional Star Wars universe prior to the establishment of the Galactic Empire. By the time of the original Star Wars trilogy, it is referred to as the Old Republic. It was a benevolent, though ineffectual, democratic government tied up in layers of bureaucracy.

Related Topics:
Star Wars - Galactic Empire - Democratic government - Bureaucracy

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The Republic, as it was commonly known, had a highly democratic government that was able to sustain itself for over twenty-five thousand years (according to the Expanded Universe, as implied by Obi-Wan Kenobi's line in A New Hope that "for over a thousand generations the Jedi were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic"). It is said that its complete history would "fill ten thousand libraries."

Related Topics:
Expanded Universe - A New Hope - Jedi

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