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Bambooweb: Switzerland |
 | | Switzerland is a federation of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of confederacy that goes back more than 700 years, arguably putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics. |
| | Switzerland passed laws (such as the money laundering law of 1997) to address these concerns and does lift its bank secrecy for foreign authorities investigating crimes; However, while tax fraud (forging documents, for example) is considered a crime in Switzerland, tax evasion is not. |
| | Switzerland has four official languages: German (64%; yellow) in the north and centre, French (19%; purple) to the west, Italian (8%; green) in the south, and finally Romansh, a Romance language spoken by a small minority (<1%; red) in the southeastern canton of Graubünden. |
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