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darkknight109 posted...

@Dikitain If you want to be specific, you live in a federal liberal representative democratic presidential constitutional capitalist republic, and you can continue adding as many descriptors onto that as you want.

The difference is that Presidential Republic is the official term for our form of government (as well as most governments in North and South America, plus parts of the middle east) , where as everything else you described is just random descriptors, some of them redundant, others not even forms of actual government.

Presidential Republic simply means that the executive and legislative branch of governments are both electable by the people, as opposed to a Parliamentary Republic where the "executive" (prime minister) is picked by the legislative branch. Or a Constitutional Monarchy which is a Parliamentary Republic but with a Monarch that holds no actual power (England, Canada, Australia, etc.). Or Saudi Arabia which is an Absolute Monarchy. Or Russia, which is just fucking weird.