Czech Founding Day, which takes place on October 28 every year, is a day of celebration and fun because it observes the founding of the first independent Czechoslovakian state.
Before 1918, the region was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and it witnessed many wars before it attained freedom.
Today, it has become a strong democracy focusing on human rights and providing exemplary services to its citizens.
The Czech Republic is a unitary parliamentary republic and developed country with an advanced, high-income social market economy.
It is a welfare state with a European social model, universal health care and free-tuition university education. It ranks 32nd in the Human Development Index.
