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Not really. America is a continent . The United States of America, as its name implies, is a federation. Countries like France and Poland are republics. Read about the difference on wikipedia.org. But both federations and republics are types of states. Democracy, on the other hand, is a form of government. For example, the USA is a federation (type of state) with a presidential democracy (form of government). Canada is a federation with a parlamentary democracy. France is a republic with a presidential democracy.ac196nataku said:I'm not sure how many of you people know this, but America is not really a Democracy. Well I guess it's a form of Democracy but really it is a Republic. I guess you could call it a Representative Democracy, but its more of a Republic than a Democracy. I believe a Democratic Republic is the official term for the government in place here.
The "republic" government in Civ3 is really supposed to be what the ancient Greeks and Romans meant by "republic" - i.e. a confederation of city-states or administrative divisions with limited direct democracy.