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Technical: What is a Yellow Book?

Yellow books in print: Fenizic Politics - Fenizic Diplomacy

I translated this term freely from German "Buntbuch" or "Farbbuch". Books with official publications of governmental policy are generally called colourbooks, according to their usual cover colour. In the emantime, I learned that they are more often called Colour Papers today.

• In Germany, we have whitebooks (Weißbücher, White Papers). Today, German Weißbücher which officially carry this name are mostly about security and defense policy, but other government publications use a similar colour and layout.
  Other countries use different colours:
• Redbooks: Austria, Spain, USA
• Yellowbooks: China, France
• Greenbooks: Italy, Romania, Mexico
• Greybooks: Denmark, Japan (and, IIRC, the German Empire)
• Orangebooks: Netherlands (who also published a "Defence White Paper" in 2000)
• Bluebooks: UK. The first ever colourbook was the Bluebook of 1624, a collection of documents justifying the British foreign policy.
• EU Commission: Greenbooks and whitebooks with defined, different contents. Also called Green or White Papers.
• Blackbooks are not official. Usually, they criticize something (politics, economic systems, religion, institutions, etc.)

Feniz therefore publishes Yellow Books, according to the most prominent colour of its flag.

I'm not sure whether there "book style" layout is really better than presenting the contents on a web page but it is somewhat different, at least.

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