Prior to the First World War, the territory that forms modern day Slovenia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. To appease separatist ambitions of Slavic nations in the Austrian part of the empire, Emperor Karl, in the final days of the First World War, offered to reform Austria into a federal union, with Slovenia becoming one of the federal states in a new Austria. The Slovenian political leadership rejected the offer, declared independence from the Habsburg monarchy and formed the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs, which a month later merged with the Kingdom of Serbia and became the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes a. k. a. Yugoslavia.

Common prosperity has emerged as one of the most important concepts guiding China’s policymaking over the last half year. The phrase emerged at a meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping in August 2021, with the stated aim of making significant progress toward reducing inequality and achieving people centred development by 2035 and basically achieving the goal by 2050. Features of the common prosperity mission are raising the incomes of low-income groups via tax redistribution, banning tutoring companies from making a profit, fighting monopolies, increasing regulation of tech companies, and encouraging high-income firms and individuals to contribute more to society via the so-called "third distribution", which refers to charity and donations.

On demand referenda can be started by citizens to strike down any law through the gathering of sufficient signatures. Their result is binding if enough voters participate.

A gap year is a year-long break after high school and before college/university during which students engage in various educational, developmental, and recreational activities.