1.This country is the longest-surviving extant constitutional republic, with the oldest wholly written constitution in the world.
2.Its government operates as a representative democracy through a congressional system.
3.This country has vast economic, political, and military influence on a global scale.
4.It is one of the world's most populous nation, with nearly 300 million people.
5.This country is considered to have one of the most powerful military in the world, in part due to the size of its defense budget.
6.This country has an extremely varied geography and the climate is as varied as its landscape.
7.The economic system of this country can be described as a capitalist-mixed economy. Corporations make the majority of microeconomic decisions, and governments take a smaller role in the domestic economy.
8. The median household income in 2005 was $43,318.
9.The country has 168 universities in the world's top 500, 17 of which are in the top 20.
2006-08-13
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