People's Republic

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People's Republic (sometimes Popular Republic) is a title that is often used by Marxist-Leninist governments to describe their state. Currently there are five states in world that call themselves People's Republics: Algeria, Bangladesh, China, Laos, and North Korea.

Examples include:

Other Communist states are/were sometimes referred to as democratic republics (e.g. the German Democratic Republic), democratic people's republics (e.g. the Democratic People's Republic of Korea), or socialist republics (e.g., the Socialist Republic of Vietnam).

Other uses of the term

"People's Republic" is also used in United States political sarcasm to refer to any predominantly left-wing or liberal area, especially those cities with a large, liberal, university population. The usage probably derives from the late 1960s, when The People's Republic of Berkeley (California) was used to describe the site of the radical Free Speech Movement. It is particularly prevalent in cases where a municipality represents an island of liberal politics within a more conservative, especially rural, area.

Other sighted instances of this usage include:

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