From the Netherlands, as you probably know...
The country: goodish, although there's always something to complain about.
The government: er... it used to be good, but then this right-wing politician was murdered by a left-wing moron (first political murder since WW2). Ever since, the political landscape has been in turmoil. The right-wing guy's party got a large number of seats in parliament, and started a coalition government with two other parties. After a while, the party started some internal power struggles, and practically fell apart, ending the coalition after some three months.
We've had new elections a few months ago, and the politicians have been talking since then. It seems a new coalition is in the works, which would finally lead to some stability... we can only hope.
Apart from that whole mess, everything is fine; proof that politicians aren't *that* important anyway...
