Founded by the Asari upon their discovery of the Citadel, an ancient Prothean world, the Galactic Republic acted as a representative democracy to the whole Milky Way, having numerous star systems on its sovereignty, and being ruled by the Citadel Council, a body that elected its representatives across planets. The Galactic Republic was the ruling governing body of the Milky Way galaxy for 100,000 years. No need to note where it was or whence it came, only to know that… it was the Republic.

The Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time.