It's a federated representative democracy with some issues, some of the components of which have some level of direct democracy. It is also a republic. It cou

It's a federated representative democracy with some issues, some of the components of which have some level of direct democracy. It is also a republic. It could be a republic even if it was a pure direct democracy somehow without "issues" - in fact I struggle to see how a direct democracy without issues could be something other than a republic.