AHC: "Imperial Republic"

Your challenge is to create a political entity whose formal name is (allowing for translation) "The Imperial Republic of x," woth x obviously being whatever location you wish to reference. You only rule is that the government must be vaguely republican in nature, and have no formal system of hereditary rule. So, dictatorships, military juntas, oligarchies, pure democracies, all good.
 
Your challenge is to create a political entity whose formal name is (allowing for translation) "The Imperial Republic of x," woth x obviously being whatever location you wish to reference. You only rule is that the government must be vaguely republican in nature, and have no formal system of hereditary rule. So, dictatorships, military juntas, oligarchies, pure democracies, all good.
So... France?
 
The Roman Republic (Res publica Romanum) technically qualifies as its sphere of influence was called the Imperium Romanum (imperium of Rome).
 
The Weimar Republic qualifies in a certain sense since officially it was still the "German Empire" ("Deutsches Reich"), with the Imperial Mark (Reichsmark) as its currency, an imperial diet (Reichstag) as its lower house, an imperial chancellor (Reichskanzler) as head of government and an imperial president (Reichspräsident) as head of state.
 
The Weimar Republic qualifies in a certain sense since officially it was still the "German Empire" ("Deutsches Reich"), with the Imperial Mark (Reichsmark) as its currency, an imperial diet (Reichstag) as its lower house, an imperial chancellor (Reichskanzler) as head of government and an imperial president (Reichspräsident) as head of state.
Except Reich isn't really Empire. It's more like "realm".
As is indicated by it being the second half of both Kaiserreich (basically, emperor's realm, or empire) and Königreich (king's realm, kingdom that is) as well as modern france, still called Frankreich. Realm of the Franks, that is.
 
Nope. They never styled themselves as 'the imperial republic of france/the french.'

Well, it's anecdotical, but there's the napoleonic style.

Par la Grâce de Dieu et les Constitutions de la République, Empereur des Français
By the Grace of God and the Constitutions of the Republic, Emperor of the French

You can find it as well on Napoleonic coinage

Napoléon Empereur. République Française
Napoleon Emperor. French Republic.
 
Well, it's anecdotical, but there's the napoleonic style.

Par la Grâce de Dieu et les Constitutions de la République, Empereur des Français
By the Grace of God and the Constitutions of the Republic, Emperor of the French

You can find it as well on Napoleonic coinage

Napoléon Empereur. République Française
Napoleon Emperor. French Republic.
This.

if there's any state that can call itself "The Imperial Republic", it's Napoleonic France.
 
I'll admit its close, but its not quite there. Its a Republic with an Emperor. A Republic that is very imperial im character. However, simply having an emperor (or, in the case of the Romans, an Imperator), or referring to the realm as an Imperium doesn't fit the parameters.
 
Maybe if Napoleon vanquishes all his enemies, but never gets an heir, the Republic of France wants everyone to know they're still a state with Imperial dignity.
 
I'm actually planning on having this happen in TAPYDNK.

SPOILER ALERT!

The idea is that due to butterflies (and no Ottoman equivalent), the Byzantine Empire survives past 1453 and into the industrial age. They lose Anatolia and the Near East, but they keep their hold on the Balkans. Later Emperors work to promote the idea of a "Roman" identity to unite Greeks, Bulgars, Croats, Serbs, and others, and this idea takes hold. But then people start to question whether the Empire needs an Emperor. In the 1800s, a Bismarck-type figure overthrows the Emperor and establishes the Roman Imperial Republic.
 
The Roman Republic (Res publica Romanum) technically qualifies as its sphere of influence was called the Imperium Romanum (imperium of Rome).

This is by far the easiest route. If Rome avoids the Principate but continues to expand then it's not unreasonable to think that these two names for the polity might merge, turning into something like Res publica Imperiumque Romanorum or Imperium et Res publica Romanorum.

Heck, you might not even need to avoid the Principate. Augustus might even do it on a whim if he thinks it would help build support for his rule.
 
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