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Comparison of selected legal systems
Attribute	ParaguayReviewed	ChadIndexed	South KoreaReviewed
Legal family	Civil law	Mixed (French civil law, customary and Islamic law)	Civil law
System of government	Unitary presidential republic	Unitary presidential republic	Presidential republic
Constitution	Constitution of the Republic of Paraguay	Constitution of the Republic of Chad	Constitution of the Republic of Korea
In force since	1992	2023	1948
Capital	Asunción	N'Djamena	Seoul
Official languages	Spanish, Guaraní	French, Arabic	Korean
Currency	Paraguayan guaraní (PYG)	Central African CFA franc (XAF)	South Korean won (KRW)
Population	6,900,000	18,300,000	51,700,000
Division of powers	Unitary with seventeen departments and the capital district, each with an elected governor and departmental board holding administrative and limited fiscal competence. Legislative power is national.	Presidential system with a Prime Minister, a bicameral Parliament of National Assembly and Senate under the 2023 text, and a judiciary headed by the Supreme Court.	Unitary, with meaningful local autonomy under the Local Autonomy Act: 17 first-level divisions with directly elected governors, mayors and councils. Local ordinances must not contravene statute, and the central government retains extensive supervisory powers. There is no federal division of legislative competence.
How law is made	Bills may start in either chamber and must pass both. The President may object in whole or part; Congress overcomes an objection by absolute majority in both chambers. Constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds vote of each chamber and ratification by referendum; wholesale reform requires a constituent assembly.	Bills are examined in committee and plenary and passed by the legislature, then promulgated by the President. The Constitutional Council may be seised before promulgation.	Bills may be introduced by the government or by ten or more members of the Assembly. They go to a standing committee, then to the Legislation and Judiciary Committee for legal scrutiny, then to plenary. The President may veto a bill within fifteen days, and the Assembly may override with two-thirds of members present and a majority of those on the roll. A 2012 amendment to the National Assembly Act — the so-called Assembly Advancement Act — requires a three-fifths supermajority to bring most contested bills to a vote, which materially raises the threshold for legislating.
Legal profession	A law degree and registration of the title with the Supreme Court, which maintains the roll and exercises discipline. Bar membership is voluntary. Because both Spanish and Guaraní are official, courts must provide interpretation, and practitioners outside Asunción are commonly bilingual.	Avocats admitted through the Ordre des avocats du Tchad; the profession is concentrated in N'Djamena.	Unified: an attorney-at-law (변호사) may appear at every level. Since 2009 the route is a three-year professional law school degree followed by the bar examination, replacing the old system of a single national examination and two years at the Judicial Research and Training Institute; the old route closed fully in 2017. Judges and prosecutors are now recruited from practising lawyers rather than straight from training. The Korean Bar Association regulates admission and discipline.

A comparison table flattens nuance by design. Where a difference matters to a decision you are making, open both portals and read the section in full — the constitutional detail behind a one-line summary is often the part that governs the outcome.