Republic
Republic noun - Government in which the supreme power is held by the people and used by them directly or indirectly through representation.
Tribe and republic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tribe" instead a noun "Republic".
Nearby Word: Republican
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- Partly because they were cannibals, but mostly because Mobutu was a vicious dictator running a People's Republic of Tyranny and he didn't like that said tribe was ignoring him.
Source: Im A Humanitarian / Literature -
In Knights of the Old Republic, the Sand People of Tatooine do not keep written records for the same reasons Socrates mentioned - to write it down cheapens it and makes it something one can remove from the tribe.
Source: New Media Are Evil -
Years later Amon figures out how to use his bloodbending to take away bending, while Tarrlok becomes the Northern Water Tribe representative in Republic City.
Source: Black Magic
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