About Civica

Civica is an open reference platform that visualizes government structures for every country in the world. It combines data from multiple authoritative sources into a single, browsable atlas of political systems, constitutions, and country statistics.

The CIA World Factbook — for decades the definitive public reference on the world’s nations — was sunset on February 4, 2026. Civica preserves its final archive and enriches it with live data from Wikidata and other open sources.

Data Sources

CIA World Factbook

Comprehensive country profiles covering geography, demographics, government, economy, military, and more. The Factbook was sunset on February 4, 2026; Civica preserves the final January 2026 archive.

License: Public Domain

Wikidata

Structured knowledge base providing current heads of state, heads of government, and legislative body data. Updated regularly via SPARQL queries.

License: CC0 (Public Domain)

Data Provenance

Every data point on Civica carries a provenance indicator showing its source and freshness.

Green dot — live or regularly updated source

Amber dot — frozen archive (CIA World Factbook, January 2026)

Open Source

Civica is built with Next.js, Neon (serverless Postgres), Drizzle ORM, and Tailwind CSS. The platform is designed to be a free, open reference — all public-domain and CC0-licensed data is freely available.