User blog comment:Yountoryuu/What do you know about Holland?/@comment-3181121-20110523182313

Ehm, capital is Den Haag/Amsterdam(it's a joint capital if I remember correctly), ruled by Queen Beatrix in a constitutional monarchy, very tolerant libertarian state (i.e. legalisation of marijuana), though not without it's race/rightwing problems (a rightwing extremist whose name I forgot got killed there a while back) currency is the Euro, it used to be the Gulde.

For the historic part, holland, as a state, came into being relatively late, it used to be a part of Burgundy first and of spain later, then became a powerful trading and colonising country, (the Dutch east India company was one of the most powerful companies ever), it had colonies in Africa, (South Africa), south-east asia, and a small part in South America (Suriname). Language is dutch.