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“I am Brielle Agrippa Primus, first and last Empress of the Imperial Republic. You might have known me, in death, as the Martyred Goddess.”
Empress/Imperial precludes it being a Republic. Using Rome as the example, once Augustus declared himself Emperor, the Republic was officially over. It had been severely compromised prior to that, but still technically Res Publica.

