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Also, if you can figure out what World War I was about, let me know. I’ve read a zillion books and still don’t totally get it.

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Great political and military history here. Switzerland’s current domestic governance structure is also miraculous, or at the very least unique. The national parliament uses a “magic bullet” formula for calculating the number of cabinet slots each of the four major political parties get as part of a quasi-permanent coalition, but the real governance takes place mostly by popular referendum and at the canton level.

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