What can cause tastes to change? Taste buds are constantly being replaced, so changes in health, nutrition, medications, hormones and age can all affect how they function, causing foods to taste bland or all the same, or leading to a metallic, sweet, chalky, blood-like or otherwise undesirable taste in the mouth.
republic - a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; the head of state in a republic is usually a president. form of government, political system - the members of a social organization who are in power. Translations.
Democratic republic - a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. Dictatorship - a form of government in which a ruler or small clique wield absolute power (not restricted by a constitution or laws). Ecclesiastical - a government administrated by a church.