Well - I have the game. I've had a website about Republic for the past 2.5 years so Eidos were kind enough to pass me a copy of the finished version to review and take screenshots from. Hope this doesn't constitute spamming, but if you are interested then check out my site ( www.strategyplanet.com/republic ) and the forums for regular updates and so on.
A quick game review: great fun, massive, but complex... and because I have yet to recieve a manual, this is making playing the game fairly difficult
Jon.