republic

noun | re·pub·lic

1. : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president; also : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government

2. : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law; also : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government