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Since the fall of Napoleon's empire, the Dutch royal house has been the house of Orange-Nassau, and the colour orange is strongly connected with the Netherlands. Dutch sports teams play in orange, and the Dutch flag was originally orange, white and blue. The orange was changed to red in order to be easily seen at sea. After seeing a stadium full of Dutch football fans wearing orange kit while they wave red, white and blue flags, your eyes may never be quite the same again.

 

 

The Netherlands today are a democratic constitutional monarchy. It used to be famous for a political system called "consociationalism", where the [[Useful Notes/Pillarisation|different religious and social groups]] of the country each had a veto over national policy, but this worked so well, the nation no longer needs it; this didn't keep the Dutch political scientist Arend Lijphart from advocating the implementation of similar systems in other conflict-torn countries (with varying degrees of success). Its former prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende resembled [[Harry Potter]], except for completely lacking the ability to get out of scrapes (besides his bout with necrotizing fasciits, which he thankfully survived).

* [[Bassie En Adriaan]]

* [[A Bridge Too Far]]

* [[The Discovery Of Heaven]]

* [[Douwe Dabbert]]

* [[The Flying Dutchman]]

* [[Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay]]

* [[Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates]]

* [[Hostel]]

* [[De Kiekeboes]]' albums ''"Kiekeboe in Carré"'' and ''"De Zes Sterren"''

* [[De Lift]]