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this is nitpicking and nerd shit but democracy and republic almost mean the same thing and I get needlessly pissed at my dumbass fellow americans who get hung up over the two terms. They even have the same root words. Democracy is Greek, from the words demos and -kratia, meaning something like "rule by the people." That demos is the same root as in demographic. Republic is Latin coming from the words res and publicus, meaning something like "thing/entity of the people." That word publicus is also where the word public is from. It's related to the word people and I think distantly related to "folk" through centuries of weird Germanic language drift where p's turned into f's. (like ped became foot, pyre became fire)
There are some nerd liberal distinctions between what they mean. Liberals will sometimes say a republic is a government type whereas democracy is a method of governance, but in practice the two terms effectively mean the same thing. That is, they mean there's a representative body organized with the consent of the public rather than unelected, unchanging leadership, such as an absolute monarchy. Just about every country on earth is some type of democratic republic (or at least puts up the theater of being one), or will have some democratic elements to it. The ones that aren't are the handful that are absolute monarchies like Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Vatican City, Eswatini, and a few others.