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China (221 BC)
Type of government: Communist State
Current Leader: President Hu Jintao
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial -
Jan 1, 660
Japan (600 BC)
Type of government: Parliamentary government with constitutional monarchy
Current Leader: Prime Minister Kan
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial -
United States
Type of government: Constitutional-based federal republic
Current Leader: President Obama
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial -
Mexico
Type of government: Federal republic
Current leader: President Calderon
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial -
Venezuela
Type of government: Federal Republic
Current Leader: President Chavez
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial -
Cuba
Type of government: Communist
Current leader: General Raul Castro Ruz
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial -
Taiwan
Type of government: Multiparty democracy
Current Leader: President Ma Ying-jeou
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial -
Great Britain (1927)
Type of government: Constituional monarchy and Common Wealth realm
Current Leader: Prime Minister Cameron
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial -
Saudi Arabia
Type of government: Monarchy
Current Leader: King and Prime Minister Abdallah
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial -
Iraq
Type of government: Parliamentary democracy
Current Leader: President Talabani, Prime Minister Maliki
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial -
North Korea
Type of government: Communist state one-man dictatorship
Current Leader: Kim Jong Il
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial -
Russia
Type of government: Federation
Current Leader: President Medvedev
3 Branches of government: Executive, Legislative, Judicial