New Republic (Star Wars)

The New Republic is a fictional government from the Star Wars movie series.

When the Rebel Alliance re-established the Galactic Republic it became known as the New Republic, as the original Galactic Republic had become known as the Old Republic by this time.

Unfortunately for the dreams of the Rebel Alliance, the New Republic quickly fell afoul of political infighting of the likes seen in the waning days of the Galactic Republic. The central government was swiftly rendered impotent; the New Republic Senate, fearing another rise of the Galactic Empire, badly underfunded the New Republic Defence Force for many years. Some years after the peace treaty with the Imperial Remnant, the Senate finally authorized increased defense expenditure. However, the process of rebuilding the NRDF was interrupted by the Yuuzhan Vong invasion with nearly disastrous consequences.

Political infighting and weak leadership led the New Republic to a great number of defeats in the war and that government would not long survive the fall of Coruscant. Some time after the Yuuzhan Vong capture of Coruscant, it completely reorganized into the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, or the Galactic Alliance for short, following its alliance with the Imperial Remnant and also, to an extent, with the Chiss, an insular civilisation from the Unknown Regions on the edge of the galaxy.