The recent history of the Dominican Republic is an almost classical study of the way in which even a professedly benevolent dictatorship tends to become oppressive.

An illustration of this attitude is found in John A. McCone's letter to Dr. Thomas Lauritsen, reported in a note elsewhere in this issue of The New Republic.

The Secretary of the Treasury, upon the concurrence of the Secretary of State, is authorized and directed, out of the sum covered into the Yugoslav Claims Fund pursuant to subsection ( B ) of this section, after completing the payments of such funds pursuant to subsection ( C ) of this Section, to make payment of the balance of any sum remaining in such fund to the Government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia to the extent required under Article 1 ( C ) of the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948.

In Plato's Republic communism is -- to speak anachronistically -- a communism of Janissaries.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

and it is to this problem that the Republic ultimately returns.

To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.

In some countries the trend has gone further than others: Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela are displaying open sympathy for Castroism, and there is no country -- save the Dominican Republic whose funeral services we recently arranged -- where Castroism and Anti-Americanism does not prevent the government from unqualifiedly espousing the American cause.

And while the nation was formerly named `` The Islamic Republic of Pakistan '', it is now simply `` The Republic of Pakistan ''.

Zhuyin ( sometimes called Bopomofo ) is a semi-syllabary used to phonetically transcribe Mandarin Chinese in the Republic of China.

After the later establishment of the People's Republic of China and its adoption of Hanyu Pinyin, the use of Zhuyin today is limited, but it's still widely used in Taiwan where the Republic of China still governs.

Afghanistan ( Persian / Pashto:, Afġānistān ), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country forming part of South Asia, Central Asia, and to some extent Western Asia.

Several of the dialects have been influenced by contact with non-Germanic linguistic groups, such as the dialect of Carinthia, where in the past many speakers were bilingual with Slovene, and the dialect of Vienna, which has been influenced by immigration during the Austro-Hungarian period, particularly from what is today the Czech Republic.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

* 1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded.

* 1846 – The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.

* 1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.

* 1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.

Since 2001, the economic activity in the country is regulated by the Ministry of Economic Development of Azerbaijan Republic.

Armenia is bordered on the north by Georgia, on the east by Azerbaijan, on the southwest by the Nakhchivan Republic of Azerbaijan, on the south by Iran, and on the west by Turkey.

A new party, the Republic Party, is headed by ex-Prime Minister Aram Sargsyan, brother of Vazgen Sargsyan, and has become the primary voice of the opposition, which also includes the Armenian Communist Party, the National Unity party of Artashes Geghamyan, and elements of the former Ter-Petrosyan government.

* New California Republic, a fictional government in the post-apocalyptic game franchise Fallout

Set in a fictional stereotypical Christian republic with dictatorship called " Republic " of Gilead in post-apocalyptic ruins of United States.

Y-wings are fictional Rebel Alliance and New Republic starfighters in the Star Wars universe.

A-wings are fictional Rebel Alliance and New Republic starfighters in the Star Wars universe.

The pair of chapters following the two on Cimmeria and its literature are followed by one describing another fictional country called the Cimbrian People's Republic, a communist nation which allegedly occupied part of Cimmeria during the latter's decline.

The Republic of San Lorenzo is a fictional country where much of the book's second half takes place.

The Alliance to Restore the Republic ( commonly known as the Rebel Alliance, and, informally, as the Rebellion ) is an interstellar faction of the fictional universe of Star Wars.

* Lee Teng-hui, the first popularly elected president of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), dressed up as the fictional character Edajima Heihachi of the anime series Sakigake !!

The Galactic Republic is the name of the interplanetary State used in the fictional Star Wars universe prior to the establishment of the Galactic Empire.

The Trade Federation is a fictional organization in the Star Wars universe at the time of the Galactic Republic.

* New Republic ( Star Wars ), a fictional government from the Expanded Universe of Star Wars

The New Republic is a government in the fictional Star Wars universe.

In the ' 60s, during the height of the hippie era, the fictional College of the Surf seceded from the United States and became its own nation of hippies and dope smokers, called the People's Republic of Rock and Roll ( PR³ ).

The two main plots concern the fictional African state of Beninia ( a name reminiscent of the real-life Benin, though that nation in the Bight of Benin was known as the Republic of Dahomey when the book was written ) making a deal with General Technics to take over the management of their country, in a bid to speed up development from third world to first world status.

It is used in the fictional Republic of the Two Crowns ( based on the Republic of Two Nations ), in the alternate timeline of Ill Bethisad.

Krakozhia ( Кракозия or Кракожия ) is a fictional country created for the film, that closely resembles a former Soviet Republic.

" ( Thus perish the enemies of the Republic ), referring to how fictional character Mère Royaume poured boiling hot vegetable soup on soldiers climbing up the walls of the city.

Magma ( Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla ) hails from the fictional country of Nova Roma ( New Rome ), a colony of the Roman Republic reportedly founded shortly after the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

* The " People's Republic of Pineland ", a fictional country and part of the U. S. Army's Exercise Robin Sage in central North Carolina, USA

HK-47 is a fictional character in the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, its sequel, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, and the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion pack to the massively multiplayer online game Star Wars: Galaxies.

The storyline was altered in that the hijackers were members of a fictional country known as the Bintazi People's Republic, ruled by General Abul Bazarre, ruler for life.

O Senhor Embaixador ( His Excellency, the Ambassador ) is a novel by Erico Verissimo, about the history of the fictional Republic of Sacramento.