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//__ The Washington post __// Costa Rica By Matthew Morris In the country of Costa Rica, their government is not much different than ours. Costa Rica is a democratic republic and a constitutional democracy with a strong constitution from 1949. Like our government, they have a republic with three powers. They have a president along with two vice presidents for the head of the executive branch. The 57 seat legislative assembly is a big part of the legislative branch. They also have a supreme court that is the head of the judicial branch. Oscar Arias Sanchez is the current president, chief of state and head of government. So far, he has been able to avoid wide spread violence. The president can only serve 4 years at a time. There is no election until eight years later. The official language of Costa Rica is Spanish and is an agricultural country. It has a lot of religious holidays and its main religion is Roman Catholic. It also has seven main provinces. The government is funded by taxes from the people. The main currency for this country is colons and centimentos established in 1896. Later on the centimentos got removed. The colons have famous or important people put on the money. There is actually a weird similarity between the United States money and Costa Rica money called “decaying peg”. The main connection with the US and Costa Rica is trade. They trade many goods with each other. Costa Rica and the United States have many similarities in government and other things. each other. Costa Rica and the United States have many similarities in government and other things.