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.
Best Answer: A republic is a government in which the populace choose other people to represent them in the central government. It comes from the latin phrase  res publica, meaning  public affair. An indirect democracy and a republic are the same thing. :P.