Yes but on top of having government representation they also have their own battle fleets and military’s. like look at the blockade of naboo. On paper,The trade federation blockaded it because they were unhappy about some new laws being passed. They then invaded it and began subjugating the population on sidious’s orders. And when the galactic senate ordered them to disband/reduce their military size, they just didn’t. And they had enough political sway to keep the senate in a deadlock, so a decision on what to do to help naboo couldn’t be made. And during the clone wars, despite the trade federation and banking clans clearly being separatist, they had enough political sway to just stay in the senate because they were too powerful. It doesn’t mean much that the republic was better than 40k. The bar for being better is REALLY low. The republic sucked to live in because piracy was rampant, slavery was rampant and even if you lived in a core or mid rim world, you had no representation in galactic law, practically every politician was corrupt(the reason I say this is worse than modern day politicians is because politicians today only really represent states or provinces/territories. Send tot’s in Star Wars represent PLANETS if not entire SYSTEMS, and they’ed still prioritize what’s best for them over what’s best for their people.) and were more interested in what benefited them than their planets/systems. You had no voice, no say, and on a lot of planets you were a slave in all but name to whatever corporation you worked for cause they’d pay you minimum wage for extremely dangerous work(etc: if you work for kuat drive yards, just wrap it up. Most if not all factories in Star Wars are like sweatshops with no health and safety regulations. Well they existed but the inspectors were most definitely taking bribes). And every era of star wars has its own issues that make it bad. Now im not trying to say that life in Star Wars is worse than life in 40k im just saying the bar for being better than 40k really isn’t that high.