No, the republican officials are gone. They fled, along with many of the Chateau's people. There's no republic. No voting except where Hireshmont wants it, no republican titles, no republican laws, and oaths to the Bloodstars have been received by the lower-ranking officials.
They aren't republicans, and there isn't a republic. There's a game label (which, AFAIK, actually does absolutely nothing– republic and theocracy have the same game effects, don't they?) which is defunct because the realm is in fact, in every way, a theocracy.
You can't claim that just because the game has the label "theocracy" that we're wrong in RPing OUR NPCs as theocratic.
Game mechanics trump RP. RPing yourself winning a battle where none took place doesn't net you prestige and neither does RPing yourself transitioning to theocracy when no transition took place get you a free government change.
