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By Neil the Ethical Werewolf
Hey, did you know that Iran's Parliament has a seat reserved for Jews? And by "seat" I mean an actual government position, not some kind of chair that blows up. You can read a little about Iranian Jews here. Their situation is better than I would've thought it'd be, though certainly not great.
Stuff like that, and Matt Yglesias' post on the weird structure of the Lebanese government, point out to me how little I know about forms of government worldwide. Lebanon has spaces in its Parliament allocated to each ethnoreligious group, as a result of compromises to prevent civil war.
