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[General] There are evil kingdoms and evil empires. What are some evil republics from fiction?
gpt
Debatably, the Alliance from Firefly.

Its government is never fully explained, but it seems to be run by a parliament. Its evil is of the most banal sort - faceless bureaucracy grinding the disenfranchised into the dirt; scientists experimenting on entire planets, then covering up the deaths of millions as an inconvenience; and psychopaths with badges using their petty authority to enrich themselves.