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Comparing the governments, politics, and economics of different countries can be a challenge. Shelley (chair, dept. of geography, Univ. of Oklahoma) provides detailed information on these subjects with countries listed according to whether they are democracies, communist states, monarchies, transitional states, or theocracies. Each region is introduced by several pages of charts of statistics on education, energy, geography, health, finances, number of Facebook users, and a plethora of more subjects. The data come from several sources including the CIA World Factbook, the U.S. Census Bureau, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the country's World Bank. A...Log In or Sign Up to Read More