I encourage you to read the Codex and see the differences. GX wasn't democracy, it was feudalism.
The comparison is not for the ends of the laws themselves, but their extensiveness. Republican Melhed, under Aldo, was uniquely legalistic. That guy was an encyclopedia...
So you mean this thing?
http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Greater_Xavax/LawsCertainly more exhaustive than most.
