United Republic of Humanity

The United Republic of Humanity was the predecessor state to the Old Republic. Formed just over twenty-five thousand years before the Battle of Yavin in the wake of Rakatan Infinite Empire's collapse, the United Republic of Humanity initially consisted only of a handful of Core World planets and far-flung human colonies, but over the following millennium it would come to encompass most of the Core Worlds as well as significant portions of the Deep Core and the Mid Rim, and inevitably this brought numerous alien species under the Republic's rule. However, the Republic's Universal Constitution only extended citizenship and legal rights to humans. While on many worlds such rights were informally extended to non-humans, others treated them as second-class citizens or even in the same manner as non-sentient animals, and there remained no representation for alien races at the highest levels of government. This would eventually change as major civil conflicts began to come to a head in many parts of Republic space, and in 23,904 BBY, the Republic's Supreme Chancellor filed an executive order to amend the constitution to extend rights to all sentient beings, which was quickly approved and ratified by a majority vote in the Senate, officially converting the United Republic of Humanity into the Galactic Republic.