On nation names and ideology
This kind of discussion used to be a lot more common in the days before the collapse of the Soviet Union. You can't use the word "Republic" alone as a giveaway to know the country's ideology. For example, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) isn't a communist nation, nor was the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). However, if a nation calls itself a "People's Republic", it is almost certainly communist.
I first noticed this back in the 1970s - any nation with the words "People" or "Democratic" in its name was without fail a communist nation.