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Translate the aspects of your country that you wish to research into keywords. You will need these words to query various databases to find relevant information. For example, if you want to find information on the history of your country, you would use the key word history as well as the name of your country. If you wanted information on the relations between your country and another country, you would use the two names of the countries and the word relations as your keywords. It's a good idea to make a list of keywords before you begin searching. It also a good idea to take keywords from the relevant documents that you have found.