Government and politics

• Yahoo's Government
• Inter-Parliamentary Union - parliamentary information and links
• Elections around the world, CNN Election Watch and Lijphart Election Archive of political parties and elections around the world
• Government Publications and Maps - publications of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs)
• Overheid.nl, Overheidslinks.nl, Overheidsinformatie.nl and P.O. Box 51 Dutch government online information collections (most in Dutch)
• Belgian federal government with search, and governments of Dutch-speaking Flanders.be and French-speaking Wallonia
• Politiek.net Belgian politics site with many international links
• Parliament & Politics Dutch politics site including biographies of many politicians (in Dutch)
• Dutch Parliament and Belgian/Flemish Parliament
• Dutch Central Statistics Bureau and Belgian National Statistics Institute
• Buro Jansen & Janssen has some interesting international links
• The Dutch national debt in real time going down at last
• Dutch government projects with severe cost overruns (in Dutch)
• Dutch tax service with information on Dutch tax reform 2001
• Begroting.be - spending of the Belgian government
• German government and parliament
• ThisNation - all about American government and politics
• Documents center for U.S. and international government information
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has the United States Government Manual which describes all U.S. federal government institutions
• U.S. Government organization - federal, states, and counties
• SearchGov.com U.S. government search, including government information elsewhere
• FirstGov portal to 27,000 U.S. government Websites
• White House an Interactive Citizen's Handbook, and US Library of Congress with international resources
• Office of the Clerk has the current floor activity - live coverage of what's going on in the House of Representatives
• The Polling Report and Public Agenda of American public opinion on a number of subjects
• FBI, the CIA, the MI5 British Intelligence Service, German Verfassungsschutz and Dutch AIVD
• British Government Information Service - and some non-British too
• Her Majesty's Stationary Office has the official UK government information, and UK online is the United Kingdom's central goverment services portal
• ICT - the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism

Countries and regions

• HQ-Linklist: Political parties and elections are up on this page, war and peace below, and maps and more are on the travel page
• United Nations: POPIN Population Information Network
• Population and Environment Linkages Service
• World Overpopulation Awareness - the story of population growth
• Counting the inhabitants of the Netherlands and other countries (in Dutch)
• In the Netherlands the 10 Million Club wants to let the population reduce gradually by one-third to be more human with less humans
• Statistics of Belgium
• ESCAP Population Data Sheet for Asia and the Pacific 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003
• Gridded Population of the World (GPW) charts the world's population density
• Population Reference Bureau with World Population Data Sheet
• World Gazetteer has population numbers of cities, towns, and regions worldwide
• IMF IMF General Data Dissemination System - economic, financial, socio-demographic data per country
• National Anthropological Archives (NAA) has links to anthropological resources
• OFFSTATS collection of free accessible social, economic and general data from official sources, by country
• CountryReports.org profiles nations of the world, with flags, anthems and much more
• AtlaPedia and the CIA World Factbook have almost all data of every country
• Library of Congress Country Studies of over 100 countries
• CIA also lists Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
• Your Nation country statistics lookup
• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources linking to organizations, countries, regions, topics
• INCORE conflict data service, with handy country guide
• FIRST Facts on International Relations and Security Trends
• Economist Country Briefings
• U.S. Department of State: Countries and Regions
• State and County QuickFacts has U.S. state and county data
• ERSYS has demographic and economic data of U.S. states and cities
• Transparency.org has Corruption Surveys and Indexes and the Global Corruption Report ranks corruption and bribery in the world
• Corruption in post-Communist societies
• Digital Freedom Network publishes information that is censored or banned in some countries
• Yahoo Regional list by country and region, and searching the Web by country and region
• Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• Geo fiction: many imaginary countries - Malafida and Vanirn are just a few
• Mad Monarchs - reality beats all fiction and fantasy with sadistic sultans, terrible tsars, crazy caesars and deranged dukes

Cities

• Start pages of cities and regions in the Netherlands
• VNG Dutch Municipalities and VVSG Flemish Cities and Municipalities
• St. Petersburg Web is the most advanced Russian city in cyberspace
• USA CityLink to all American digital states and cities
• Inner City Press has news from (inner) cities in the US and worldwide
• RealEstate Journal is about homes and living in the United States
• Cities of Art - a collection of beautiful cities online

Europe, European Union

• European Union with the European Parliament and other important EU institutions
• Dutch Europe information start page
• ECLAS - European Commission Library
• Eurostat - EU import, export, inflation, prices, industrial production, retail, investment, consumption and labor statistics
• Eur-Lex laws of the European Union
• The euro currency - Quest, Eurochallenger of Belgium, the Dutch National Forum and the Euro home page
• The Knowledge Guide to the Euro from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Citizens First: living and working in (another) EU country
• CORDIS Home Page - research & development supported by the EU
• ERPA: European Research Papers Archive of working papers relevant to European integration
• Information Market - EUROPE
• The TERENA Document Store
• Eurotimes and the EU in the US - information and news from the European Union
• Euro Info Centres have information about all aspects of European law (in Dutch)
• Funders Online - Europe's online philanthropic community
• EG-liaison has information on European research and development
• IPR Helpdesk for intellectual property rights in the EU

Law and justice

• Dutch starting point to justice (in Dutch)
• Dutch jurisdiction and law sites: start page, Recht.nl and rechtspraak.nl
• WetWegWijzer - a Dutch law guide for the average citizen
• Dutch Rechtspraak.nl jurisdiction web site
• Dutch Fiscal Up to Date has the latest on fiscal law in the Netherlands
• Lexnet - the Belgian legal network
• German Law Archive
• 1000 Dutch links of law and justice
• TILL - Tilburg Internet Law Library, for news in Dutch and international law
• Politie.nl (Dutch police), and Dutch customs
• Crime Magazine has everything about crime
• Yahoo: law and order, with links by country
• Findlaw and Law Guru - guides to legal resources
• Guide to International Legal Databases links to legal resources worldwide
• Research of articles and decisions in Public International Law and European Law
• Encyclopedia of Law and Economics links to many web resources
• The Guide to Law Online - free quality law resources worldwide
• US Legal Research Meta-index of all US law sources
• Lex Mercatoria - international trade and commercial law
• OECD International Regulation Database with manuals, ready for download
• Bitlaw (new) technology law
• The Publishing Law Center, the Cyberlaw Encyclopedia, Yahoo Technology Full Coverage: Intellectual Property, and Copyright Resources Online have legal (online) publishing information
• The Code of Hammurabi - the earliest-known body of written laws
• DumbLaws center of strange laws

Society

• War, peace and security guide
• The World War I Document Archive and World War II Resources
• The Nizkor Project and The Holocaust Chronicle - remember nazism, because something similar happened in Kosovo
• Jane's Defence Section and Jane's Defence Weekly
• The Aerodrome - aircraft and aces of World War I
• Naval History and Photography and World Navies Today - the world's navies and warships
• DefenseLink of the U.S. ministry of Defense, with extensive statistics in an almanac
• SearchMil.com military search
• From Marx to Mao - remember communism
• Marxist Internet Archive of texts and writers
• And this was the Wall of Berlin
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, part of the DIANA human rights documentary database
• CivilRights.org civil rights information hub
• Privacy and Human Rights 2000
• Nuclear Files Archive and The Atomic Archive of nuclear weapons and nuclear war , and WorldAtom gathers nuclear information
• CSIS: Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Lives has thousands of biographies
• Hundreds of Famous Quotations
• Nobel Channel brings all the ideas of Nobel Prize winners together
• Which World? Scenarios for world regions in the 21st Century
• The Psychology of Cyberspace - research to understand the psychological components of cyberspace
• Privacy International - privacy and personal freedom issues worldwide
• Women are in charge at Cybergrrl Webstation, in the WWWomen index, and at the Dutch Webgrrls.nl, Feeks and women start sites
• Hatred online analyses hatred on the Web
• Bully Online and Dutch site Pesten.net against bullying
• Action Without Borders (IdeaList) and Oneworld.net - links to the non-profit world
• International Organization Web Sites - thousands of links
• Guide of Labour Unions and the Internet
• NGONet - non-governmental organizations in Belgium
• Child porn and age discrimination in Holland can be reported here
• Child porno reporting centre of the Belgian federal police
• Academic Info: Religion, Virtual Religion Index and Yahoo: religion and spirituality - to study religion
• Dutch start pages of christianity, islam, judaism and buddhism religion in general
• The Holy Bible, King James Version, Goettingen Gutenberg Bible and Gutenberg Bible pictures
• Introduction to Islam, Free Muslim Resources, and Al-Islam.org has the Holy Qur'an
• Islamic studies, Islam, Arabic and Religion
• CESNUR Center for Studies on New Religions
• American Atheist Organization
• FreeMarket.Net freedom network and Libertarian.org stand for Libertarianism - more freedom for individuals
• An organized guide to anarchy on the Web
• The Stoic Place