premise: The Republic of Macedonia is a Galactic Empire.
hypothesis: The Galactic Empire , often referred to simply as the Empire , is a fictional dictatorship featured in the Star Wars franchise . Macedonia ( [ mæsᵻˈdoʊniə ] ; Μακεδονία , Makedonía [ maceðoˈnia ] ) is a geographic and historical region of Greece in the southern Balkans . Republic of Macedonia . Republika Makedonija ) , is a country in the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe . It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia , from which it declared independence in 1991 .