Identify these Mediterranean Countries Quiz Information

I pulled this quote from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain#Languages

"Castilian", most commonly known in the English language as "Spanish" (though called both español and castellano in Spanish) is the official language in all Spain. Nonetheless, other languages, proper to its constituent communities, have been declared co-official with Spanish in the territories in which they are spoken...

@tickman

According to my source Spain only has one official language and is not the Catalan language.

"It is also spoken, although with no official recognition, in the autonomous communities of Aragon (in La Franja) and Murcia (in El Carxe) in Spain, and in the Roussillon region of southern France, which is more or less equivalent to the département of the Pyrénées-Orientales."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language

It is confusing. Must be some minor differences in formal structures that they are talking about.

Also, I thought Spain had 2 official languages (I think the second was Catalan?).

But anyway, good game in the way you set it up and kept categories straight.

To be honest with you BoboLo, I am a little unclear on the distinctions myself. I used wikipedia as a source for this game and generally I find it to be pretty accurate. I looked up each country seperatley to gather my information.

Israel is listed as a Parliamentary democracy here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

and Italy a Parliamentary republic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy

I assume Wikipedia is correct, but I don't entirely understand the distinction either.

So flummoxed, that I have belatedly realized that it was Israel, not Jordan, that was the 'parliamentary democracy'. But I'm still confused. Why is Italy a 'parliamentary republic' and Israel a 'parliamentary democracy'. Both have 'constitutional' presidents with few powers, and both are democratic ...

I must confess to being really confused about some of the distinctions between forms of government. Some of these strike me as arbitrary and certainly debatable. Jordan, for example, is hardly a parliamentary democracy when the King is such a powerful figure. Equally, 'constitutional monarchy' means very different things in Morocco and Spain. More generally, it splitting hairs to distinguish between 'parliamentary republic' and 'republic', and between 'semi-presidential republic', and 'unitary semi-presidential republic'!

Yours truly flummoxed, BoboLo