I’m unsurprised but still concerned that 17% of people voted for Sith Empire. I hope most of the voters either misclicked or voted that way without an actual knowledge of what the Sith Empire is like, because according to the wiki page:
“Being of the Sith, the Sith Empires used the dark side of the Force. These governments were built up through the use of slave labor, a practice that the Galactic Republic outlawed during its stewardship of the galaxy. The idea of an enormous, spacefaring, planet-destroying superweapon had dated back a millennium prior to the rise of the Galactic Empire; in the days of the Sith Empire, tyrants were playing with the idea of a weapon so powerful that it could destroy entire worlds.”
Even if the Galactic Republic was corrupt, the Sith Empire sounds 10 times worse.