{"service":"GlobalRules API","description":"Per-country practical micro-facts for AI agents: VAT/GST rates, public holidays, tipping customs, plug types, date/number formats.","pricing":{"list":"$0.005/call","country_data_full":"$0.03/call","country_data_field":"$0.01/call","compare_all_countries":"$0.02/call","full_dataset":"$0.25/call","protocol":"x402 v2 (USDC)"},"endpoints":{"GET /api/v1/demo/:code":"Free preview (vat, tipping) — no wallet needed, rate-limited","GET /api/v1/countries":"List available country codes (paid, $0.005)","GET /api/v1/country/:code":"All facts for a country in one call (paid, $0.03)","GET /api/v1/country/:code/:field":"One field. 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Verify against official government sources before production use. Provided as-is, no warranty.","holidays_note":"Complete national public holiday calendar for 2026, auto-sourced from Nager.Date (date.nager.at) where available. Some countries on lunar/Islamic calendars are manually curated and may list major holidays only.","verification":"VAT rates cross-checked against 2026 aggregate sources (vatupdate.com global table, PwC WWTS) on 2026-07-08. Corporate tax rates from PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries (2026). Other facts knowledge-based; verify before high-stakes use. 50-topic pilot (2026-07-09): JP, US, DE, BR, KE expanded from 28 to 50 topics with per-field primary-source citations (government ministries, World Bank, ILO, national statistics offices) where available; fields without a reliable primary source were left null/flagged rather than estimated. Remaining 43 countries still at 28 topics pending the same treatment. 50-topic batch 2 (2026-07-09): GB, FR, IN, CN, AU expanded from 28 to 50 topics with per-field primary-source citations where available. Added 3 brand-new 50-topic countries: RU (Russia), PK (Pakistan), BD (Bangladesh). Total country count now 51. Notable unverified/flagged fields: UK B-READY pillar scores unconfirmed despite coverage; China esim_available=false (diverges from other countries, Great Firewall roaming caveat noted); Australia parental_leave_policy maternity/paternity weeks both null (scheme doesn't split that way); Russia has extensive 2022-sanctions-era payment/SIM/roaming caveats and unconfirmed B-READY coverage (WBG lending suspended in Russia since March 2022); Pakistan confirmed IN B-READY 2024 but pillar scores unconfirmed; Bangladesh confirmed IN B-READY 2024 WITH actual pillar scores (56.99 / 41.46 / 70.49) — the only one of these 8 countries with hard B-READY numbers found. Remaining ~38 existing countries still at 28 topics pending the same treatment. 50-topic batch 3 (2026-07-09): SG, AE, KR, MX, CA expanded from 28 to 50 topics with per-field primary-source citations where available. Added 2 brand-new 50-topic countries: MA (Morocco), UA (Ukraine). Sri Lanka (LK) research was interrupted mid-task by a session spend-limit error and is NOT included in this batch — pending a future pass. Total country count now 53. Notable flagged fields: UAE not covered by B-READY 2024/2025 (scheduled for 2027 edition per World Bank's own coverage page); Singapore/UAE/Korea/Mexico/Canada B-READY pillar scores partially unconfirmed (secondary-source only for some pillars); Singapore and UAE have no general statutory minimum wage (sector-specific floors only); Ukraine entry carries extensive 2022-war/martial-law caveats (entry restrictions, male travel ban, B-READY coverage unconfirmed, GDP reflects war-impacted economy); Morocco paternity leave reform (15 days) confirmed only for public-sector employees, private-sector figure left null. Remaining ~33 existing countries still at 28 topics pending the same treatment; Sri Lanka pending as a new-country addition. Data-quality fix (2026-07-09): corrected a schema-type bug in the MA/UA batch-3 entries where several base fields (business_hours_typical, timezone, climate, languages, idp, payment_culture, tap_water, tax_free_shopping) had been written as nested objects instead of plain strings by the research subagent, which would have rendered as '[object Object]' on the generated site; flattened to descriptive strings using the original note content. Added Sri Lanka (LK) as a new 50-topic country (batch 4), including a monthly Poya-day holiday pattern and 2022-crisis recovery context in its GDP figure. Total country count now 54. 50-topic batch 5 (2026-07-09): TW, HK, TH, VN, ID, MY, PH, IT expanded from 28 to 50 topics with per-field primary-source citations where available. Notable flagged fields: Taiwan/Hong Kong B-READY status complicated by political/SAR status (Taiwan excluded from World Bank publications; HK tracked separately from mainland China); Thailand/Vietnam/Malaysia visa and alcohol-sales rules flagged as being in active transition as of mid-2026 (reverify before relying on them); Italy has no statutory minimum wage (relies on sector collective bargaining, compliant with EU Minimum Wage Directive via high CBA coverage); Indonesia/Vietnam/Philippines/Malaysia minimum wages are regional/provincial, not single national figures. Remaining ~25 existing countries still at 28 topics pending the same treatment. | Batch (2026-07-09): expanded ES/PT/NL/BE/CH/AT/SE/NO to 50 topics via primary-source research (government ministries, EU sources, World Bank/IMF, statistical offices); B-READY coverage status flagged per country (most not yet in 2024/2025 editions); soft cultural-etiquette fields (business_card_etiquette, gift_giving_custom, business_dress_code, negotiation_style_note) explicitly flagged as non-primary-source cultural convention where no government data exists. | Batch (2026-07-09): expanded DK/FI/PL/CZ/IE/GR/TR/IL to 50 topics via primary-source research (government ministries/statistical offices, EU sources, World Bank/IMF, ILGA-Europe); B-READY coverage status flagged per country (none confirmed in 2024/2025 editions); politically/legally sensitive fields (lgbtq_legal_status in PL/TR/IL, gdp_per_capita in IE and TR) carry explicit caveats about volatility or in-flux legal status; soft cultural-etiquette fields flagged as non-primary-source where no government data exists. | Batch (2026-07-09, FINAL): expanded SA/EG/ZA/NG/AR/CL/CO/PE/NZ to 50 topics via primary-source research (government ministries/statistical offices, World Bank/IMF, ILGA/HRW/Human Dignity Trust for LGBTQ status). All 54 countries in the dataset are now at the full 50-topic schema. B-READY coverage confirmed absent for most of this batch (only SA/EG were pilot/scheduled candidates); politically/legally sensitive fields (lgbtq_legal_status in SA/EG/NG/PE, alcohol_sales_hours in SA) stated factually and neutrally per research instructions; volatile-currency countries (AR, EG, NG) carry explicit inflation/exchange-rate caveats on wage and GDP figures. | Re-verification pass (2026-07-10): TH visa-exemption rollback status updated (approved 19 May 2026, not yet in Royal Gazette as of early July — 60-day rule still live at border); TH alcohol sales-hours change confirmed PERMANENT from 29 May 2026 (was flagged as 180-day trial); CN eSIM note updated for the Oct 2025 domestic eSIM launch (still Chinese-ID-only, foreigners unchanged). | 50-topic batch 6 (2026-07-10): added 8 brand-new countries - HU, RO, HR, BG (EU: all four confirmed full Schengen; RO VAT 21% since Aug 2025 verified; BG euro adoption 1 Jan 2026 at 1.95583 BGN/EUR verified; 2026 minimum wages from Eurostat Jan-2026 release: HU EUR838, RO EUR795, HR EUR1050, BG EUR620; holidays from Nager.Date 2026) and QA, KW, OM, JO (Gulf/Middle East: QA/KW confirmed still no VAT as of 2026, OM VAT 5%, JO GST 16%; KW 15% DMTT effective 2025 (Decree-Law 157/2024) and QA DMTT (Law 22/2024) verified; OM 5% personal income tax from 2028 verified - first in GCC; Islamic-calendar holidays flagged approximate/moon-sighting dependent; JO minimum wage JOD290 from Jan 2025 flagged for reconfirmation). B-READY 2024 coverage: HU/RO/HR/BG included (pillar scores not fetched), QA/KW/OM/JO not covered. Cultural-etiquette fields flagged as non-primary-source convention. Total country count now 62. | Loop A batch 7 (2026-07-11): added 4 brand-new 50-topic countries -- SK, SI, LT, LV (Baltics/Central Europe: all four confirmed full Schengen/EU members; SK VAT raised to 23%/19% in 2025; SI VAT 22%/9.5% with temporary 22% CIT surcharge (2024-2028) for flood reconstruction; LT VAT restructured Jan 2026 (9% rate abolished, split into 12%/5%); LV distinctive 0%-on-retained-profits CIT model; 2026 minimum wages verified: SK EUR915, SI EUR1,481.88, LT EUR1,153, LV EUR780; holidays from Nager.Date 2026). B-READY 2024/2025/2026 coverage confirmed for all four but no public composite score found for any -- set to null per no-guessing policy. LGBTQ legal status flagged as fast-moving/contested in SK (2025 constitutional two-gender amendment) and LT (2025 court ruling, partnership bill pending, referendum motion introduced); LV civil unions in force since Jul 2024. Total country count now 66. Verification rotation (2026-07-11): re-checked VAT/minimum-wage/visa/alcohol fields for the 8 longest-unverified 50-topic countries (JP, US, DE, BR, KE, GB, FR, IN) against current sources. Confirmed unchanged and already current: JP consumption tax, alcohol; US federal minimum wage and alcohol framework; DE VAT and alcohol; BR e-visa status and alcohol; KE VAT and eTA policy; GB VAT, minimum wage, ETA rollout, alcohol; FR VAT, minimum wage, alcohol; IN minimum wage (NFLMW) and alcohol. Two fields found stale and updated with sources: KE minimum_wage (KES 16,113.75 to KES 18,047.40/month, May 2026 gazette) and IN vat (updated to reflect GST 2.0 5%/18%/40% slab structure effective Sept 2025, replacing outdated 0/5/12/18/28% description). Other observed upcoming-but-not-yet-effective changes noted for future rotations: JP JESTA travel authorization (law passed, effective ~2029), US ESTA fee change to $40.27, DE/FR ETIAS rollout expected Q4 2026, BR CBS/IBS tax reform pilot phase (1% test rate from Jan 2026, full effect through 2033). | Loop A batch 8 (2026-07-13): added 4 brand-new 50-topic countries -- EE, LU, MT, CY (all EU/eurozone members; EE/LU/MT full Schengen, CY EU member but not yet Schengen as of mid-2026 -- accession technically ready per EU's 5th State of Schengen report but final Council approval pending, noted neutrally re: island's political division). Notable: EE has 0% CIT on retained/reinvested profits (22% only on distribution, planned 2026 hike to 24% was cancelled); LU has the EU's highest minimum wage and free nationwide public transport since 2020; MT nominal 35% CIT with 6/7ths imputation refund system (effective ~5%) and driving on the left; CY raised its signature 12.5% CIT to 15% effective 1 Jan 2026 (OECD Pillar Two) and also drives on the left. business_ready_score left null for all four (World Bank B-READY has no confirmed composite score for these economies yet) -- no guessing per policy. Holidays 2026 sourced via Nager.Date/official government calendars. Total country count now 70. Verification rotation (2026-07-13): re-checked vat/minimum_wage/visa_requirement_common_passports/alcohol_sales_hours for the 8 oldest-researched 50-topic countries not yet covered by a prior rotation (CN, AU, RU, PK, BD, SG, AE, KR -- selected as the earliest-researched batch, since JP/US/DE/BR/KE/GB/FR/IN were already rotated on 2026-07-11). Confirmed unchanged: CN vat/minimum_wage/alcohol; AU vat/visa (alcohol_sales_hours marked uncertain -- state-level rules not individually re-checked, left as-is); RU vat/minimum_wage/visa; PK vat/visa/alcohol; BD all four fields; SG all four fields; AE vat/minimum_wage/alcohol; KR all four fields. 5 fields found stale and updated with sources+verified date: CN visa-free list expanded 46->50 countries (UK/Canada added Feb 2026); AU minimum wage raised to AUD 26.44/hr effective 1 Jul 2026 (was 24.95); RU alcohol sales-hours baseline refined to spirits 10:00-20:00 / beer+wine to 22:00 under the 2026 nationwide overhaul; PK minimum wage raised to PKR 40,700/month effective 1 Jul 2026 (was 37,000, FY2026-27 budget); AE visa-on-arrival list expanded 25 Jun 2026 to Indonesia/Vietnam/Thailand/Philippines/Kenya/South Africa nationals holding a Group-2 residence permit. | Loop A batch 9 (2026-07-15): added 4 brand-new 50-topic countries — IS (Iceland: VAT 24%/11%, CIT back to 20% from 2026, no statutory minimum wage (collective agreements ~ISK 513-515k/mo), Vinbudin state alcohol monopoly, Schengen via EEA, remote-worker long-term visa up to 180 days; holidays: full Nager.Date 2026 list, 16 entries), RS (Serbia: VAT 20%/10%, CIT 15%, minimum wage RSD 371 net/hr from Jan 2026 (+10.1%), no DN visa, Belgrade transit fare-free since 2025; holidays: full Nager.Date 2026 list incl. Sunday-shift for Statehood Day), KZ (Kazakhstan: NEW TAX CODE — VAT raised 12%->16% from 1 Jan 2026 verified via PwC/Baker McKenzie, CIT 20% (banks/gambling 25%), minimum wage frozen at KZT 85,000, Neo Nomad Visa USD 3,000/mo, B-READY 2025 pillar scores included, alcohol 12:00-21:00 spirits / 23:00-08:00 ban for <=30% ABV; holidays: Nager 2026 list completed with egov.kz official calendar (Orthodox Christmas Jan 7, Kurban Ait May 27 — Nager omitted both; no truncation)), BH (Bahrain: VAT 10%, CIT 0% general + 46% oil/gas + 15% DMTT from FY2025 (Decree-Law 11/2024), no private-sector statutory minimum wage, no DN visa confirmed by official sources (aggregator claims contradicted), holidays: full 14-entry 2026 list transcribed from Central Bank of Bahrain official bank-holidays page — Nager returned only 5 fixed dates and was NOT used; Islamic dates flagged moon-sighting dependent). Total country count now 74. Verification rotation (2026-07-15): re-checked vat/minimum_wage/visa/alcohol_sales_hours/digital_nomad_visa (digital_nomad_visa newly in rotation as an extra-topics published field) for the 8 oldest-unrotated countries MX, CA, MA, UA, LK, TW, HK, VN. Confirmed current: MX all 5 (border VAT stimulus renewed only through 31 Dec 2026 — recheck at year end); CA vat/minimum_wage(18.15 CAD/hr Apr 2026)/visa/DNV; MA all 5 (SMIG 17.92 MAD/hr Jan 2026; new AEVM e-authorization for a few African nationalities noted); UA vat/minimum_wage(UAH 8,647 Jan 2026)/alcohol/DNV (uResidency applications temporarily suspended — note for future edit); LK all 5 (VAT 18%; free 30-day ETA for 40 countries from 25 May 2026; DNV USD 2,000/mo launched Feb 2026; 19 dry days 2026); TW all 5 (min wage NT$29,500/196 Jan 2026; New Southbound visa-free trial expires 31 Jul 2026 — recheck in August); HK vat/visa/alcohol/DNV; VN all 5 (8% reduced VAT extended to 31 Dec 2026 per Resolution 204/2025/QH15; Decree 293/2025 regional wages). 3 fields stale and updated with sources+verified: CA alcohol_sales_hours (Ontario 7am-11pm for all retail incl. grocery/convenience per AGCO, online sales allowed from 1 Jan 2026), UA visa_requirement_common_passports (martial law extended to Oct 31, 2026 by Rada mid-July 2026), HK minimum_wage (HK$43.1/hr effective 1 May 2026). Holiday completeness pass (validate warnings): SA 3->10 entries and QA 4->14 entries, full-set from official announcements (QNA/Amiri Diwan for QA; Royal Order/HRSD/Supreme Court announcements for SA — see verification_holidays.gov_sources for caveats incl. the Eid al-Fitr enumeration flag); SA/QA removed from verification_holidays.pending. RU validate warning (2025-12-31 in holidays list) left unchanged — no grounds to alter existing-country data without re-research. | Loop A batch 10 (2026-07-16): added 4 brand-new 50-topic countries -- GE, AM, AZ, UZ (Caucasus/Central Asia: GE VAT 18% single-rate, Estonian-style 15% CIT on distributed profits only, 'Remotely from Georgia' DNV, no tourist tax, mandatory traveler health insurance from 1 Jan 2026, holidays via Nager.Date 17-entry full list; AM VAT 20%, CIT 18%, no DNV (Temporary Residence Permit as remote-worker alternative), no tourist tax, holidays via Nager.Date 14-entry full list; AZ VAT 18%, CIT 20% (+10% branch-profit tax on repatriation), Novruz/Ramazan/Gurban 2026 dates confirmed via Cabinet of Ministers Decision No.362 (2 Dec 2025)/Ministry of Labour production calendar rather than Nager (AZ not Nager-covered), DNV planned 2026-2028 but not yet operational, no tourist tax; UZ dual VAT 12%/6% (voluntary reduced rate from 1 Jun 2026), CIT 15%, alcohol purchase/drinking age 21, tourist tax (5-15% of base value per night for foreigners, Cabinet Resolution No.475), holidays via lex.uz Labour Code Art.208 + Presidential Decree UP-257 24 Dec 2025 (19-entry full list incl. in-lieu shifts), UZ not Nager-covered so holidays hand-transcribed from primary sources). All four researched with primary-source citations (matsne.gov.ge, mfa.am/parliament.am, e-qanun/sosial.gov.az, lex.uz/gov.uz) where available; unconfirmed fields (e.g. GE/AM/AZ/UZ business_ready_score composite scores -- B-READY reports topic-level not one aggregate score) left null with note rather than estimated. Total country count now 78. Verification rotation (2026-07-16): re-checked vat/minimum_wage/visa_requirement_common_passports/alcohol_sales_hours/digital_nomad_visa for the 8 oldest-unrotated 50-topic countries (TH, ID, MY, PH, IT, ES, PT, NL). TH and ID confirmed current with no material changes beyond the existing 2026-07-10/07-13 entries (Thai visa-exemption rollback still pending Royal Gazette publication as of this check; Indonesian E33G remote-worker visa and PPN/alcohol framework unchanged). IT and PT confirmed current, no changes (Italy still has no statutory minimum wage; Portugal's Porto alcohol restriction already reflected). 5 fields updated with new primary-sourced changes: MY vat.notes (added 6% reduced service-tax-rate detail for rental/leasing effective 1 Jan 2026, MSST/customs.gov.my); PH minimum_wage (new Wage Order NCR-27 signed 30 Jun 2026, NCR floor rising PHP695->755 on 25 Jul 2026 then ->780 on 20 Jan 2027, DOLE/NWPC); PH visa note (China 14-day visa-free window added 16 Jan 2026, evisa.gov.ph); NL alcohol_sales_hours (1 Jan 2026 tightening: spirits purchase age raised to 21, fines raised to EUR1,200, government.nl); ES minimum_wage (2026 SMI raised to EUR1,221/month per Real Decreto 126/2026, superseding the 2025 EUR1,184 figure, BOE) and ES digital_nomad_visa.min_income_monthly (explicit 2026 computed threshold ~EUR2,849/month added, indexed to the new SMI). No holidays_2026_sample entries had <6 holidays in this run's validate-data.js output, so the mandatory 2-country holiday-completeness pass had no qualifying candidates this cycle. | Loop A batch 11 (2026-07-17): added 4 brand-new 50-topic countries -- KH, LA, MM, NP (Southeast/South Asia: KH VAT 10% w/ temporary fuel-sector cut to 4% from Mar 2026, holidays via Nager.Date full 21-entry 2026 list (Nager covers Cambodia); LA VAT 10%, no digital nomad visa/tourist tax, holidays hand-transcribed from officeholidays.com/Laos government sources cross-checked -- LA holidays intentionally limited to the well-corroborated statutory core list (New Year, Women's Day + in-lieu, 3-day Lao New Year, Labour Day, National Day = 8 entries) per the no-inference holiday policy, excluding several additional dates found in secondary travel sources that could not be confirmed as statutory paid holidays; MM Commercial Tax 5% (no VAT system), holidays hand-transcribed from officeholidays.com reflecting Myanmar's gazetted calendar incl. Buddhist full-moon-day statutory holidays and bridge days (27 entries) -- MM data carries extensive post-2021-coup volatility caveats (GDP, exchange rate, internet connectivity, LGBTQ criminalization under Penal Code s.377); NP VAT 13% flat, holidays hand-transcribed and cross-verified against independent Panchang/lunar-calendar sources after finding date errors in an initial MoHA-gazette-citing secondary source (corrected Holi and Dashain-start dates), NP has a newly-approved Digital Nomad Visa (2026 rollout, portal still finalizing) and a landmark same-sex-marriage Supreme Court ruling (18 June 2026). All four researched with primary/authoritative-source citations where available; business_ready_score left null for all four (World Bank B-READY has no single confirmed composite score). Total country count now 82. Verification rotation (2026-07-17): re-checked vat/minimum_wage/visa_requirement_common_passports/alcohol_sales_hours/digital_nomad_visa/tourist_tax for the 8 oldest-unrotated 50-topic countries (BE, CH, AT, SE, NO, DK, FI, PL -- all originally researched 2026-07-09, never previously rotated). Confirmed unchanged after live re-verification: BE vat/visa/alcohol/DNV/tourist_tax (BE tourist_tax already reflected the Jan-2026 Brussels EUR5/EUR4 rate); CH vat/visa/alcohol/DNV/tourist_tax; NO vat/minimum_wage/visa/alcohol/DNV (NO tourist_tax already correctly reflected the 1-Jul-2026 besoksbidragslov enabling law with no municipality yet collecting); DK vat/visa/DNV/tourist_tax (DK alcohol_sales_hours already reflected the 16/18-split purchase-age rule); FI vat/minimum_wage/visa/DNV (FI tourist_tax already correctly reflected proposal-stage status; FI alcohol_sales_hours already reflected the 2025-2026 Alko reform at an adequate summary level); PL vat/minimum_wage/visa/DNV/tourist_tax. 7 fields updated with newly-sourced additions/corrections: BE minimum_wage (was null -- added the RMMMG/GMMI EUR2,189.81/month de facto wage-floor figure, effective 1 Apr 2026); AT vat (added new 4.9% super-reduced food-VAT rate, effective 1 Jul 2026); AT visa_requirement_common_passports (added EES biometric border-check mandatory-rollout note, 10 Apr 2026); SE vat (added temporary 12%->6% food VAT cut, 1 Apr 2026-31 Dec 2027); SE alcohol_sales_hours (added the Systembolaget farm-sales carve-out confirmed by a 2026 Stockholm court ruling); PL alcohol_sales_hours (added Warsaw's citywide 22:00-06:00 off-premise sales ban, effective 1 Jun 2026); CH minimum_wage (added Ticino and Basel-Stadt 2026 cantonal rates alongside the existing Geneva/Neuchatel/Jura figures). No holidays_2026_sample entries had <6 holidays in this run's validate-data.js output (same as the prior two rotations), so the mandatory 2-country holiday-completeness pass had no qualifying candidates this cycle. | Loop A batch 12 (2026-07-18): added 4 brand-new 50-topic countries -- MN, BN, FJ, MV (MN: 10% VAT, progressive CIT scale (1%/10%/25% by bracket), MNT 792,000/month minimum wage, holidays sourced via Nager.Date 10-entry base list PLUS a manually-added Tsagaan Sar (Lunar New Year, 3 days, Feb 17-19) that Nager omits -- confirmed as a known Nager gap for Mongolia via cross-check, total 16-entry full list, no truncation; BN: NO VAT/GST system, 18.5% CIT, first-ever statutory minimum wage BND 500/month introduced 2023 but sector-specific only (banking/finance/ICT/healthcare/education/professional-services/accommodation, not yet universal), holidays hand-transcribed (Nager not BN-covered) incl. Islamic moon-sighting-dependent dates flagged as approximate pending gazette confirmation, strict Syariah Penal Code alcohol/LGBTQ context stated factually; FJ: VAT cut 15%->12.5% effective 1 Aug 2025, 25% CIT, FJD 5.00/hour minimum wage (1 Apr 2025), holidays hand-transcribed (Nager not FJ-covered), tourist_tax reflects both the FJD 200 departure tax and a new temporary 5% Tourism Services Tax from 1 Sep 2026; MV: dual GST system flagged explicitly (8% general GST vs 17% Tourism GST/T-GST, distinct from a standard/reduced-rate pair), 15% CIT with 0% under MVR 500k threshold, minimum wage tiered by business size (MVR 4,500/7,000/8,000), holidays hand-transcribed (Nager not MV-covered) with several Hijri-calendar dates flagged +/-1-day provisional pending official gazette confirmation nearer the date, alcohol/LGBTQ/resort-only-alcohol context stated factually. All four researched with primary/reputable-source citations where available; business_ready_score left null for all four (no confirmed World Bank B-READY composite score). Total country count now 86. Verification rotation (2026-07-18): re-checked vat/minimum_wage/visa_requirement_common_passports/alcohol_sales_hours/digital_nomad_visa/tourist_tax for 8 never-rotated 50-topic countries in two groups -- CZ/IE/GR/TR and IL/SA/EG/ZA (all originally researched 2026-07-09, none previously rotated). 20 of 24 checked fields in the CZ/IE/GR/TR group were CONFIRMED CURRENT; 4 fields updated with sourced enrichments (no core numeric value changed for any): CZ and GR visa_requirement_common_passports (added EES mandatory-since-10-Apr-2026 note, matching the pattern already applied to AT in the prior rotation), IE vat (added Budget 2026 permanent hospitality/hairdressing VAT cut 13.5%->9% effective 1 Jul 2026), TR alcohol_sales_hours (clarified a June 2026 amendment transferred enforcement authority to local government while the underlying 22:00-06:00 retail ban is unchanged, and flagged an uncorroborated 09:00-21:00 claim circulating on lower-quality aggregator sites as inaccurate per primary/legal-industry sources). All 24 fields in the IL/SA/EG/ZA group were CONFIRMED CURRENT with no material changes found (Israel VAT stayed 18% in the 2026 budget; Saudi VAT/minimum-wage/alcohol-prohibition/visa policy unchanged; Egypt minimum wage EGP7,000/8,000 confirmed matching the 2 Apr 2026 PM announcement; South Africa VAT confirmed to have stayed at 15% after the 2025 16% hike plan was reversed, minimum wage confirmed at the exact 1 Mar 2026 gazetted ZAR30.23/hour rate) -- per dataset convention, fields confirmed unchanged do not receive a new verified-date stamp (only fields whose value was actually corrected/enriched do, consistent with prior rotations e.g. PL/ID/TH remaining unstamped after their own confirmed-current passes). No holidays_2026_sample entries had <6 holidays in this run's validate-data.js output (same finding as the prior several runs), so the mandatory 2-country holiday-completeness pass had no qualifying candidates this cycle -- this run's holiday-completeness effort instead went into the MN Tsagaan Sar gap-fill and the BN/FJ/MV full hand-transcription described above, all within the spirit of the completeness-guarantee policy. Separately noted for a future maintenance pass (out of this run's scope: not a variable-field rotation target): validate-data.js flags 13 existing countries from Loop A batches 9-11 (IS, RS, KZ, BH, GE, AM, AZ, UZ, KH, LA, MM, NP) as missing the medication_import_rules field that all other 50-topic countries carry -- these predate that field being added to the standard schema checklist and were not backfilled here since backfilling a whole missing field falls outside this run's authorized change scope (added countries + re-verification of variable fields + holiday sync + _meta + queue + site/). Expansion batch 2026-07-19 (loop A, auto): added ET (Ethiopia), GH (Ghana), TZ (Tanzania), UG (Uganda) at full 54-field schema with per-field primary-source citations where available; fields without a verifiable primary source left null with flag: no_primary_source (ET.tax_free_shopping/business_ready_score, GH.alcohol_sales_hours, TZ.business_ready_score.value composite score, UG.business_ready_score). Total country count now 90. Verification rotation batch 2026-07-19 (loop A, auto, 8 countries — NG, QA, AR, BD, BG, BN, CL, CO): re-verified variable fields (vat, corporate_tax, minimum_wage, visa_requirement_common_passports, digital_nomad_visa, tourist_tax, business_ready_score, gdp_per_capita, plus country-specific fields lgbtq_legal_status/alcohol_sales_hours/cash_declaration_limit where flagged) against 2026 primary sources. Notable corrections: NG.gdp_per_capita corrected from stale ~$3k to ~$835-1084 (2023-24 naira devaluation) and NG.holidays_2026_sample fixed (added missing Eid-ul-Fitr/Eid-ul-Adha, removed non-statutory Children's Day/National Youth Day); BG fully redenominated to EUR following the country's 1 Jan 2026 euro adoption (currency_detail/vat/corporate_tax/minimum_wage/tourist_tax) and holidays_2026_sample completed with 4 missing in-lieu/changeover dates; AR gained a newly-added cash_declaration_limit field; BD.business_ready_score updated to B-READY 2025 figures (53/45/58, superseding 2024's 56.99/41.46/70.49); CL.tourist_tax updated to reflect the Kast government's May 2026 removal of the proposed 1.25% accommodation tax from the pending tourism bill. Full per-country field-level detail is in the commit diff. This pass covered the highest-value variable fields per country (10-15 targeted searches each) rather than the full ~38-field exhaustive sweep, due to an interim subagent-budget constraint hit mid-run; remaining lower-priority fields (banking_hours, customs_duty_free_allowance, road_rules, etc.) for these 8 countries were not re-touched this pass and remain candidates for a future rotation. 50-topic batch (2026-07-20, Loop A batch 14): added DZ (Algeria), TN (Tunisia), CI (Cote d'Ivoire), SN (Senegal) as brand-new 54-field entries with primary-source citations (PwC WWTS, government tax/labour authorities, World Bank B-READY, Nager.Date/government gazettes for holidays with Islamic-calendar dates flagged estimated-pending-moon-sighting-confirmation where applicable). Total country count now 94. Monday holiday full-resync (update-holidays.js) ran first, updating 19 Nager-covered countries; flagged BH now shows only 5 holidays post-sync (Nager gap, not yet gov-protected) -- queued for a future rotation to hand-transcribe from Bahrain government sources. Verification rotation (2026-07-20): rotated the 8 remaining never-before-rotated existing countries (PE/NZ/HU/RO/HR/KW/OM/JO), completing the first full pass across all pre-2026-07-11 countries. Notable findings: PE VAT IGV/IPM split changed for 2026 (18% total unchanged) and its tax-free-shopping field was corrected from a stale \"not implemented\" to a confirmed operating Global Blue scheme; HU minimum wage and tax-free threshold both updated (prior tax-free figure was a HUF/EUR mixup, corrected), plus a major lgbtq_legal_status update reflecting the April 2026 CJEU ruling and change of government; RO minimum wage mid-year step-up captured, cash_declaration_limit backfilled (a genuine RO government-domain source for the full moveable-date holiday list still could not be found despite a renewed attempt -- left as Nager-synced pending gov verification); HR five fields updated (GDP, retirement age off-by-3-months correction, 2025 parental-leave reform, new 2026 local-option alcohol-hours law, EES-live visa note) plus a B-READY pillar-ranking note; KW and OM both achieved full primary-source holiday verification for the first time (moved from _meta.verification_holidays.pending to gov_sources) -- KW corrected an Isra & Mi'raj date error (16->18 Jan) and flagged Mawlid as still-estimated, OM corrected nearly every holiday date versus the prior secondary-sourced list (Council of Ministers/Ministry of Labour via Oman Observer/Times of Oman/Muscat Daily) and dropped Renaissance Day as apparently discontinued since 2020; JO got GDP/B-READY-coverage updates with holidays reconfirmed unchanged. cash_declaration_limit backfilled for PE/NZ/RO/OM where missing (Loop C is separately rolling out the same field topic-wide -- 72/90 as of an earlier run today). 50-topic batch 15 (2026-07-21): added VE (Venezuela), EC (Ecuador), UY (Uruguay), PY (Paraguay) as brand-new 54-topic entries (South America). VE required careful handling of dual/parallel exchange rates, dollarization-adjacent bono system (minimum_wage split into frozen legal base + non-salary bonuses), and sanctions context; business_ready_score/tax_free_shopping/tourist_tax left null+flagged (no confirmed primary source). EC is fully dollarized (currency=USD); IVA confirmed at 15% for 2026. UY and PY both researched cleanly with few flags; PY smoking legal age, public_holiday_in_lieu_policy, tourist_tax and medication_import_rules left null+flagged (no primary source located this pass). Holidays for all 4 fetched in full from Nager.Date (global=true filter, no truncation): VE 34, EC 11, UY 15, PY 12 entries. Total country count now 98. Verification rotation (2026-07-21): selected 8 existing countries with fewest dated/rotated fields (SA/ZA/SK/SI/UZ/NP/MV/JP). Changes found: SA gdp_per_capita (2025 figure now published, down from 2024) + cash_declaration_limit newly added (SAR 60,000->40,000, note ZATCA's own page not yet updated); ZA cash_declaration_limit newly added (ZAR 25,000->100,000 per 2026 Budget/SARB circular); SK and SI visa_requirement_common_passports updated for EU EES full rollout (10 Apr 2026) + ETIAS Q4 2026 timeline, both got cash_declaration_limit newly added (EU-wide EUR 10,000 rule, previously missing from both records); SI vat notes updated to flag the pending-but-not-yet-in-force ZIURS VAT-cut act (Constitutional Court referendum challenge as of 1 Jun 2026, rates unchanged at 22%/9.5% for now); NP vat notes updated for the FY2083/84 (2026/27) federal budget's new e-payment VAT discount and electricity/ride-hailing 5% tier; MV and JP business_ready_score both updated to reflect World Bank confirming both economies are now on the B-READY 2026 coverage list (report not yet published). UZ: no changes found on this pass (vat/corporate_tax/minimum_wage/lgbtq_legal_status all confirmed current). | 50-topic batch 16 (2026-07-29, Loop A batch 16): added BO (Bolivia), CR (Costa Rica), PA (Panama), DO (Dominican Republic) as brand-new 54-topic entries (Central America/Andes). Holidays fetched/cross-verified in full for 2026: BO 13 (hand-verified via Decreto Supremo N.529521 cross-checked against Ferrere/Ministerio de Trabajo reporting since Nager.Date could not be reached directly), CR 12 (hand-verified via Codigo de Trabajo Art.148/El Financiero/BDO/La Nacion since Nager returned no 2026 data for CR), PA 12 (hand-verified via MITRADEL/government calendar since Nager.Date rendered client-side JS), DO 12 (hand-verified via Ministerio de Trabajo official 2026 announcement applying the Ley 139-97 Monday-shift law). Notable: BO dropped its US/Canada visa requirement 1 Dec 2025 (flagged as volatile); PA is a dual-currency (PAB/USD) jurisdiction with no B-READY score confirmed; CR has no automatic holiday-to-Monday shift for 2026 after the post-COVID law expired; DO applies the distinctive Ley Dominicana 139-97 Monday-shift rule. business_ready_score/tax_free_shopping/digital_nomad_visa (DO)/tourist_tax (BO/DO) left null+flagged per the no-guessing policy where no primary source was found. Verification rotation (2026-07-29): rotated the 8 oldest-never-rotated existing countries (LT, LV, EE, LU, MT, CY, IS, RS — all added 2026-07-13/07-15, never previously through a dedicated rotation pass). Findings: LT lgbtq_legal_status corrected (referendum is still only a proposed advisory measure pending Seimas approval, not a March 2026 vote as previously implied); LV and LU visa_requirement_common_passports updated for the ETIAS launch slipping from Q4 2026 to an expected 2027 date; LU minimum_wage updated for a new 1 Jun 2026 indexation tranche (EUR2,771.33/3,325.59); MT and CY gdp_per_capita refreshed against live World Bank API figures; MT visa_requirement_common_passports updated for the same ETIAS delay; CY visa_requirement_common_passports updated to reflect June 2026 EU technical approval of Schengen accession (not yet a member) and CY lgbtq_legal_status updated to note the 25 Nov 2025 CJEU same-sex-marriage-recognition ruling (Cupriak-Trojan) reported to apply to Cyprus via media, though no primary Cypriot government implementation source was confirmed; IS visa_requirement_common_passports updated for the same ETIAS delay (the flagged Iceland temporary fuel-VAT-cut expiry could not be confirmed this pass due to a subagent WebSearch-budget exhaustion, left unchanged, flagged for a future rotation); EE and RS confirmed current with no changes found. Nager.Date holiday spot-checks during rotation flagged two pre-existing (not newly introduced) completeness gaps for a future rotation to hand-verify and complete: LV (14 on file vs Nager 16) and CY (14 on file vs Nager 16-17) — not altered this pass without the specific missing entries in hand, per the no-guessing policy. | 50-topic batch 17 (2026-07-30, Loop A batch 17, auto): added GT (Guatemala), HN (Honduras), SV (El Salvador), NI (Nicaragua) as brand-new 54-topic entries (Central America). Holidays hand-verified for 2026 for all four via government/labour-ministry and cross-checked secondary sources (Nager.Date API endpoint was not directly fetchable for this batch; lists cross-verified against officeholidays.com and government labour-code holiday articles, e.g. GT Acuerdos/Codigo de Trabajo, HN Decreto 78-2015 Semana Morazanica, SV Codigo de Trabajo Art.190, NI Ley 1272 in force since 20 Jan 2026 which added 4 new politically-themed holidays raising NI count from 10 to 14). SV confirmed USD-dollarized with Bitcoin mandatory-acceptance repealed Jan 2025 (still legal, optional). NI GDP-per-capita sources conflict (World Bank ~$2,290 for 2024 vs Worldometer ~$3,337-3,559 2025/26 projections) -- both cited with a discrepancy note. business_ready_score left null for all four (no confirmed World Bank B-READY composite score); tax_free_shopping left null for all four (no VAT tourist-refund scheme found). Total country count now 106. Verification rotation (2026-07-30): rotated the 8 oldest-never-rotated existing countries (KZ, BH, GE, AM, AZ, KH, LA, MM -- all added 2026-07-15/07-16/07-17, first rotation pass for all eight). Findings: KZ holidays_2026_sample corrected via egov.kz -- added Orthodox Christmas (Jan 7) and first day of Qurban Ait (May 27), removed Constitution Day (Law No.306-VIII, 11 Jun 2026, moved it to 15 Mar effective 2027 -- 2026 is a transition year with no Constitution Day observance); BH business_ready_score updated from 'not confirmed' to confirmed-covered under B-READY 2025's 101-economy interim edition (Ministry of Finance-cited topic scores, 3rd globally in Dispute Resolution); KH holidays_2026_sample cross-verified against Ministry of Labour Prakas No.216/25 which confirmed the existing 21-date list was correct except May 1 should read 'International Labor Day and Visak Bochea Day' combined (name-only correction); LA holidays_2026_sample expanded 8->12 entries (added Women's Day observed-in-lieu, Lao Women's Union Day Jul 20, Boat Racing Festival Oct 27, That Luang Festival Nov 24 -- aggregator-corroborated, primary gov gazette not reached this pass, flagged for next rotation); MM holidays_2026_sample expanded 27->31 entries (added Chinese New Year Feb 16-17, Eid al-Adha May 27, Deepavali Nov 8 -- previously-missing minority-community gazetted holidays); GE and AM confirmed unchanged (Georgia: mandatory tourist travel insurance since 1 Jan 2026 and digital-nomad/work-permit rule reconfirmed on schedule; Armenia: minimum wage AMD 75,000/month unchanged, visa-exemption window for US/EU/Schengen/UAE/Bahrain/Qatar/Saudi/Kuwait residence-permit holders reconfirmed active through 1 Jul 2027); AZ confirmed unchanged (retirement age equalization to 65 for women effective 1 Jul 2026 reconfirmed; no new minimum-wage decree found). None of the 8 rotated countries triggered validate-data.js's <6-holiday warning this run. Loop A batch 18 (2026-08-06): added CU/JM/TT/IQ (Caribbean/Middle East) as brand-new 54-topic entries; holidays hand-verified for all four (Cuba/Iraq not Nager-covered, hand-transcribed with Islamic lunar dates in IQ flagged 'estimated pending moon-sighting confirmation' per the no-inference holiday policy; JM/TT cross-checked against Nager.Date with one JM date correction — National Heroes' Day corrected from a Nager-reported Friday to the correct third-Monday-of-October rule). Total country count now 110. Verification rotation (2026-08-06): re-checked the 8 least-recently-verified existing countries (CN/TH/JP/US/DE/FR/GB/IN, oldest per-field 'verified' timestamps from the original 2026-07-09/10 pilot batches) across their highest-value variable fields; search-tool budget constraints limited full ~38-field sweeps for several countries (notably IN, where no fields could be independently re-verified this pass and were left untouched pending a future rotation with fresh search capacity). Confirmed changes: JP corporate_tax (new FY2026 4% Defense Special Corporate Tax surtax), US visa_requirement_common_passports (ESTA fee raised to $40.27) and business_ready_score (US now confirmed on B-READY coverage list, still unscored), DE and FR visa_requirement_common_passports (EU Entry/Exit System now fully operational at all Schengen borders since 9-10 April 2026; ETIAS still not launched as of Aug 2026), TH visa_requirement_common_passports (enrichment: India moved visa-free->visa-on-arrival, China separate bilateral 30-day exemption, 2-entries/year cap). CN/JP/US/DE/FR/GB VAT, corporate tax, and minimum wage figures all reconfirmed unchanged against current 2026 primary sources. GB gdp_per_capita flagged for a future pass (World Bank now shows a 2025 data year available but exact figure not extracted this session).\n\n[2026-08-11] ループA自動実行: 新規4カ国追加(LB, MU, ZM, ZW)。検証ローテーション8カ国(GT, HN, SV, NI, CU, JM, TT, IQ)を全フィールド再検証(WebSearchベース)。TTは検証セッション中にWebSearch予算が枯渇したため大半のフィールドに要再検証フラグを付与(特にlgbtq_legal_status: Privy Council判決待ち、次回ローテーションで最優先再確認)。\n\n[2026-08-13] ループA自動実行: 新規4カ国追加(BW, NA, MZ, AO)。検証ローテーション6カ国を選定して全フィールド再検証(TTは前回セッションでWebSearch予算が果てて未検証のままだったため最優先で実施し、Privy CouncilのJason Jones控訴は2026-07-08に审理済み・判決留保中であり未だ判決なしと確認)。新規4カ国はいずれもB-READYに未収録。TT: lgbtq_legal_status/parental_leave_policy/gdp_per_capita/vat/tax_free_shoppingを再確認(VATは将来の小売売上税移行方針が発表されたが現行12.5%VATは未変更)。GH: business_ready_scoreを公式BRRポータル(brr.gov.gh)の2025パイラースコアで更新。UG: gdp_per_capita(2025実績値)・minimum_wage(Employment Amendment Act 2026で賃金定問制度新設だが具体額は未告示)・lgbtq_legal_status(最高裁上訴审理は2026-03-31予定が延期、新日程未発表)を更新。DZ: gdp_per_capita(2025実績値)を更新、イスラム暦祭日(Eid al-Fitr/al-Adha/イスラム元日/アシュラ)を「推定」から「アルジェリア宗教省公式確認済み」に更新(Mawlidは将来日付のため推定のまま)。MN/FJ/ET/TZは全フィールド再検証を実施し変更なしと確認(値は現状維持)。\n\n[2026-08-17] ループA自動実行(月曜のため冒頭でupdate-holidays.js全件同期を実施、46カ国更新)。新規4カ国追加(AL=アルバニア, MK=北マケドニア, ME=モンテネグロ, BA=ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ、いずれもバルカン半島・EU加盟候補国)を54フィールドの新規エントリとして追加(並列サブエージェント4体がWebSearch/WebFetchで一次ソースを調査、メインセッションでcountries.jsonへ統合)。AL: VAT 20%/corporate tax 15%(PwC WWTS)、最低賃金ALL 50,000/月(2026-01-01付Council of Ministers決定)、祝日23件(officeholidays.com、Eid al-Fitr/al-Adhaは推定フラグ)、GDP per capita $10,012(World Bank 2024)、B-READY 2024未収録。MK: VAT 18%/corporate tax 10%(PwC)、最低賃金MKD 26,046/月(2026-03-01付, wageindicator.org)、祝日12件、B-READY 2024収録有無は要再確認フラグ、GDPは出典間で差異ありフラグ付き($8,146, World Bank 2023)。ME: VAT 21%/corporate tax 累進9-15%(PwC)、最低賃金EUR 670/月(学位保有者は800)、祝日23件(国家+正教/カトリック/イスラム各コミュニティ祝日を注記)、デジタルノマドビザ有効(2026-12-31まで、延長未確定)、観光税EUR 0.50-1.50/泊。BA: VAT 17%単一(国家レベルITA)/corporate tax 10%均一(FBiH/RS/Brčko全て)、最低賃金はFBiH/RSで異なる(FBiH純BAM 1,027 vs RS BAM 1,000-1,450教育水準別)、祝日25件(州/準国家単位のフラグ付き)、B-READY 2024収録確認・パイラースコア原典PDFから取得(Regulatory 67.45/Public Services 37.81/Operational 70.05)。4カ国ともWebSearch予算制約により一部フィールド(退職年齢・観光税詳細・医薬品輸入規則・GDP精査等)はnull+flagで未確定のまま計上、将来の検証ローテーションでの再確認候補とする。総国数122。検証ローテーション(2026-08-17): 「verified日付が最も古い/未ローテーション」の既存8カ国(BR, KE, AU, RU, PK, SG, AE, KR — いずれも2026-07-09/10の初期50トピック・パイロットバッチ由来で、一部を除き本日まで未ローテーション)を並列サブエージェント4体(2カ国ずつ)で全変動フィールド再照合。実際に更新のあった項目: BR/KE gdp_per_capita(World Bank 2025年値に更新、KEは2024年値も下方改定)、AU holidays_2026_sample(7件→8件、King's Birthdayが欠落していたため追加)、AU/RU business_ready_score(B-READY 2026/2027収録スケジュールを世界銀行の公式Geographical coverageページで確認 — AUは2026年版62カ国追加分に収録、RUは2027年版まで収録なしと判明)、RU digital_nomad_visa(引き続き専用ビザなし、ただし2026-04に「Talent Visa」という隣接する高度人材ビザが新設されたことを注記)、PK corporate_tax(銀行業の税率が44%ではなく39%であることをPwC WWTSで訂正)、SG minimum_wage(Local Qualifying Salaryが2026-07-01付でS$1,800へ実際に引き上げ済みであることを確認)、AE tourist_tax(Dubai Tourism Dirhamの一時免除は2026-04-01からの3か月限定であり2026-07-01付で通常徴収に復帰したことを確認)。その他大半のフィールド(VAT・法人税本則・最低賃金額・ビザ制度・観光税基本構造・LGBTQ法的地位・現金申告限度額・酒類販売時間等)は今回照合の結果いずれも変更なしと確認。PK/SGの一部(GDP per capita)とAE B-READY 2025収録有無はWebSearch予算枯渇のため未確定のまま次回持ち越し。 Loop A batch (2026-08-23): added MD/CM/SD/LY as brand-new 55-topic entries (holidays cross-checked against Nager.Date + officeholidays.com/qppstudio.net for Islamic-calendar countries SD/LY/CM). Re-verified 8 longest-unverified countries (CN/TH/JP/US/GB/IN/BR/AU) across all variable fields; corrections: TH visa policy (India remains visa-exempt, not VOA, per 14 Jul 2026 Cabinet decision superseding the 19 May decision previously recorded), IN holidays (14->17, fixed Bakrid date), BR holidays (10->13, added Carnaval/Corpus Christi as widely-observed ponto facultativo), GB/US/CN business_ready_score (B-READY 2025 coverage updates), AU parental leave (confirmed 26-week full rollout effective 1 Jul 2026), GB gdp_per_capita (2025 figure), CN/BR/TH tax law updates (2026 VAT Law, Pillar Two, IBS/CBS transition).\n\n[2026-08-25] ループA自動実行: 新規4カ国追加(IR=イラン, BY=ベラルーシ, KG=キルギス, TJ=タジキスタン、いずれも制裁下/未整備国で55フィールドの新規エントリとして追加、並列サブエージェント4体がWebSearchで一次ソースを調査、メインセッションでcountries.jsonへ統合)。IR: 制裁下のためPwC非対応(Wikipedia/vatupdate.com等の代替ソース使用)、祝日は移動祝日含め29件(ヒジュラ暦は推定フラグ)、Toman/Rial換算の注記あり、tax_free_shopping/tourist_taxはno_primary_sourceでnull。BY: 2022年来のEU/US制裁下、VAT20%/10%、祝日10件(Nager.Date取得)、LGBTQ状況(2026年プロパガンダ禁止法)を記載。KG: Nager非対応のため祝日21件を政府労働省生産カレンダー準拠で手動記載(イスラム暦2件は推定)、2025年承認のデジタルノマド永住ステータス制度を記載。TJ: Nager非対応のため祝日14件を手動記載、B-READY 2025のパイラースコアを確認・記載。4カ国ともbusiness_ready_score等の一部フィールドはno_primary_sourceでnullのまま計上。検証ローテーション(2026-08-25): 「一度も再検証パスの対象になっていない」既存8カ国(TN, CI, SN, VE, EC, UY, PY, BO -- いずれも2026-07-20/07-21/07-29に新規追加されて以降、専用の検証ローテーションを経ていなかった)を並列サブエージェント4体(2カ国ずつ)でWebSearchベースの全変動フィールド照合。セッション共有のWebSearch予算枯渇により一部フィールド(特にCIの大半、BO全体)は未検証のまま次回持ち越し。実際に更新のあった項目: TN.minimum_wage(SMIG改定、decrees 66-69/2026により528.320->554.736 TND/月ほかへ引き上げ、2026-01-01遡及発効)、TN.holidays_2026_sample(8件->16件、イスラム暦の祝日6件が全て欠落していたため追加、旧来のvalidate-data.js祝日網羅性フラグ相当の不備を是正)、SN.holidays_2026_sample(9件->14件、Grand Magal de ToubaとイスラムカレンダーによるKorite/Tabaski/Tamkharit/Gamouが全て欠落していたため追加 -- セネガルは人口の95%以上がムスリムであり重大な欠落だった)、UY.vat(ツーリスト向け0%IVA優遇の適用期間を誤記載していたのを是正: 旧記載の「2026-09-30まで」は誤りで正しくは2025-11-15から2026-04-30の季節限定措置と判明)、PY.minimum_wage(既存の金額・発効日は正しかったが、根拠法令Decreto N 6225/2026を新たに確認しsource_urlを強化)。CI: VAT/法人税は確認済み変更なし、tourist_taxについて「taxe de nuitee」と別に「taxe pour le developpement touristique」(1.5%->2.5%への引き上げ)が2026年財政法で確認されたが両者の関係が未整理のため次回照合対象。VE: 全項目確認済み変更なし(IVA16%/法人税累進15-34%/最低賃金ボーナス制度とも2026-04-30時点の既存記載を再確認、8月時点の追加改定は未確認)。EC: 全項目確認済み変更なし、B-READYは単一総合スコアを公表しない方式(トピック別+3ピラー別)であることが判明したため今後null記載を継続する方針を確認。BO: WebSearch予算枯渇のため今回完全に未着手、次回優先対象。 Loop A batch (2026-08-26): added TM (Turkmenistan), PG (Papua New Guinea), BT (Bhutan), TL (Timor-Leste) as brand-new 55-field entries. TM/BT/TL holidays hand-transcribed from government/secondary sources cross-checked against 2-3 independent references (Nager.Date does not cover these three); PG holidays sourced from officeholidays.com/timeanddate cross-checks. BT.vat reflects Bhutan's new GST regime effective 1 Jan 2026 (replacing the prior Sales Tax); TL.vat documents the absence of a VAT system (Sales Tax 2.5% + Services Tax 5%), with VAT preparation targeted for 2027 per the 2026 budget. Total country count now 134. Verification rotation (2026-08-26): re-checked DE/FR/TW/HK/VN/ID/MY/PH (8 longest-unrotated countries by last-touched field date). Real updates found: DE/FR visa_requirement_common_passports (ETIAS delayed from Q4 2026 to 2027 per eu-LISA); DE.vat (single-source report of 7% reduced rate now covering restaurant dine-in food, flagged pending cross-verification); TW.business_ready_score (Taiwan now has a B-READY 2025 economy profile, correcting prior exclusion assumption; exact pillar scores still pending); TW.vat/corporate_tax (added PwC source_url citations); HK.business_ready_score (Regulatory Framework and Public Services pillars now placed in second quintile); VN.vat (8% reduced rate extended through 31 Dec 2026 under Resolution 204/2025/QH15, scope revised); VN.tourist_tax (resolved from unverified to confirmed absent); VN.holidays_2026_sample (added new 14th statutory holiday, Vietnam Culture Day, 24 Nov 2026); ID.visa_requirement_common_passports (Visa-Free Visit list expanded to 6 countries/territories per MOIC Reg. 10/2026); PH.minimum_wage (NCR-27 implementation now under active litigation as of Aug 2026, flagged as contested/unsettled rather than simply effective); PH.business_ready_score (Operational Efficiency pillar confirmed at 51.45, completing all three pillars). MY.business_ready_score was left unchanged (B-READY 2025 pillar data confirmed to exist but exact composite figures could not be extracted this pass; flagged for a future rotation). DE/FR/TW/HK minimum_wage and DE/FR holidays_2026_sample lists were independently re-confirmed accurate against nager.date/government sources and re-stamped verified 2026-08-26. 2026-08-27 batch: added MG/MW/RW/SC (55-field entries, East/Southern Africa/Indian Ocean); notable MW.vat corrected 16.5%->17.5% (MRA rate change eff. 1 Jan 2026), RW confirmed strong B-READY 2024 performer, SC confirmed highest African GDP/capita in dataset. Verification rotation covered IR/BY/KG/TJ/TM/PG/BT/TL (the two most recently added batches, never before rotated): IR holidays corrected (Nowruz recalculated to Mar 20 2026, 5 downstream dates shifted); KG lgbtq_legal_status updated (new gender-identity restriction bill, first reading only, not enacted) + holidays + gdp_per_capita; TJ holidays + gdp_per_capita refreshed; TM holidays (Nowruz 2->3 days) + gdp_per_capita + business_ready_score (newly B-READY 2025 covered); PG gdp_per_capita + business_ready_score (newly B-READY 2025 covered); BT retirement_age corrected to current 2023 RCSC rank-based ages; BY and TL fully re-verified with no discrepancies found. 2026-08-31 batch: added ML/NE/TD/GN (56-field entries, Sahel/West Africa; ML/NE=WAEMU/XOF, TD=CEMAC/XAF, GN=own currency GNF). Notable: ML and NE both criminalized same-sex relations via new 2024/2026 penal codes (reflected in lgbtq_legal_status with sourced flags); GN political transition resolved (Doumbouya elected Dec 2025, inaugurated Jan 2026). GN holidays_2026_sample Islamic-calendar dates (Eid al-Fitr/al-Adha/Mawlid) were corrected during integration QA to match the cross-verified Sahel-region dates (Mar 20/May 27/Aug 25) after the research pass produced internally-inconsistent dates ~5 months off. Verification rotation (2026-08-31): re-checked MX/CA/MA/UA/LK/IT/ES/PT (8 longest-unrotated countries, last touched 2026-07-15/16) across full variable-field set; real updates found: MX visa_requirement_common_passports/lgbtq_legal_status/digital_nomad_visa/tourist_tax, CA digital_nomad_visa, MA minimum_wage (+8.5%)/business_ready_score (newly B-READY 2025 scored)/visa_requirement_common_passports, UA payment_culture (FX controls eased)/public_holiday_in_lieu_policy (corrected: Sat/Sun transfer rule suspended under martial law), LK vat (3 new 2026 changes)/gdp_per_capita (upgraded to upper-middle income)/business_ready_score, IT business_ready_score (real pillar scores added)/gdp_per_capita/minimum_wage context, ES/PT business_ready_score note (B-READY 2025 full report now public, pillar scores still pending access). Session WebSearch quota was shared across parallel rotation agents and exhausted partway through several of them, so roughly 30-33 of ~42 checked fields per country were left unchanged and marked skip (existing verified timestamp untouched) rather than fabricated — these remain priority candidates for the next rotation pass. Loop A batch (2026-09-01): added GM/SL/LR/TG as brand-new 56-field entries (Gambia/Sierra Leone/Liberia/Togo; GM/SL/LR own currencies (GMD/SLE/LRD-USD dual), TG=WAEMU/XOF). Also re-verified full variable-field set for the 8 longest-unrotated existing countries (IR had zero prior verification dates -- treated as highest priority; TH/CN tied oldest at 2026-07-10; ZA/IN/SG/NO/DK all 2026-07-13): notable updates -- TH revoked its 60-day visa exemption in favor of a new 30-day/15-day/VOA structure effective 15 Sept 2026 (Royal Gazette 31 Aug 2026) and extended its 7% VAT rate through Sept 2027; SG raised statutory retirement age 63->64 and re-employment 68->69 effective 1 Jul 2026 (already in effect); CN updated its tax-free-shopping minimum-purchase threshold (RMB 500->200) and cash refund cap (RMB 10,000->20,000) per an Apr 2025 joint ministry notice, refreshed its Jan-2026 provincial minimum-wage table; ZA GDP per capita updated to the 2025 World Bank data year; DK's collectively-bargained sectoral minimum-wage reference figure refreshed to the 2026 Industriens Overenskomst rate (DKK 143.40/hour); NO's parental-leave 80%-pay track corrected to 61 weeks 1 day (was showing a stale 59-week figure, missing an 11-day extension effective 1 Jul 2024); IR flagged a genuine unresolved conflict on eSIM availability (commercial marketplaces claim coverage, no official confirmation) and noted its confirmed inclusion in the World Bank's upcoming B-READY 2027 edition. Several fields across all 8 rotation countries could not be re-searched this session due to shared WebSearch budget exhaustion and were left unchanged (not fabricated) -- see verified timestamps for exactly which fields were actually re-confirmed on 2026-09-01. Loop A batch (2026-09-11): added BS/BB/LC/GD (Bahamas/Barbados/Saint Lucia/Grenada) as brand-new 56-field entries via parallel research subagents, cross-checked against primary sources (PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, World Bank GDP/B-READY, WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety, SSA SSPTW Americas, tobaccocontrollaws.org/gsthr.org, humandignitytrust.org, US State Dept religious freedom reports, national revenue/customs authorities) where available; unsourced fields left null+flagged (e.g. broadband speed averages for BS/BB, exact speed limits and paternity-leave duration for LC, official minimum-wage/cash-declaration primary pages for GD). Notable correction: GD (Grenada) still criminalizes same-sex activity under Criminal Code ss.430-431 per Human Dignity Trust (not decriminalized as an earlier assumption suggested); LC (Saint Lucia) decriminalized same-sex activity via a July 2025 Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court ruling; BB (Barbados) decriminalized via Dec 2022 High Court ruling and passed a 2025 Family Leave Act adding 3 weeks paid paternity leave. Also re-verified variable fields for the 8 longest-unrotated existing countries (SK/LT/LV/AE/HK/RU/PK/RO, selected by computed minimum per-field verified date excluding the two most recent rotation batches). Notable corrections: LT legal drinking age corrected 18->20 (raised nationally in 2018, previously mis-recorded); SK retirement age reflects the 2022-23 repeal of the flat 64-year cap, now life-expectancy-indexed again per Sociálna poisťovňa; RU VAT confirmed raised 20%->22% (Federal Law 425-FZ) effective 1 Jan 2026 and a missing 2026-12-31 transferred holiday day-off added; AE digital nomad visa entry corrected to reflect two distinct programmes (federal ICP vs Dubai GDRFA) rather than one; PK holiday dates (Ashura, Eid Milad-un-Nabi) corrected against official Cabinet Division notifications; RO corporate tax IMCA minimum turnover levy halved 1%->0.5% from 1 Jan 2026; HK smoking law tightened 1 Jan 2026 (new no-smoking zones, fixed penalty doubled to HK$3,000); LV VAT 12% food pilot scope narrowed to specific items (bread/milk/poultry/eggs) per PwC. Several fields per rotation country were left unchanged (not fabricated) due to shared WebSearch budget exhaustion across parallel research agents mid-session. Loop A batch (2026-09-14): added AG/DM/KN/VC (Antigua and Barbuda/Dominica/Saint Kitts and Nevis/Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) as brand-new 56-field entries via parallel research subagents, cross-checked against primary sources (government IRD/Customs/Social-Security sites, PwC/Deloitte tax summaries, World Bank GDP/B-READY coverage, WHO road safety, SSA SSPTW Americas, tobaccocontrollaws.org, humandignitytrust.org, US State Dept religious-freedom reports) where available; unsourced fields left null+flagged rather than fabricated. Notable: KN corporate tax corrected from a widely-repeated but incorrect 33% (multiple CBI-marketing sites) to the official 25% (SKNIS 2023 budget announcement); AG/DM/KN/VC all confirmed absent from all published World Bank B-READY editions to date (VC/KN slated for a not-yet-released future edition per worldbank.org's live coverage page); AG and KN decriminalized same-sex activity (Jul 2022 and Aug 2022 respectively, both via Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court rulings) while DM and VC remain criminalized -- DM under the Sexual Offences Act 1998 (up to 12yr gross indecency/10yr buggery) and VC under the Criminal Code 1988 (up to 10yr buggery/5yr gross indecency, a 2024 High Court constitutional challenge dismissed, appeal reported pending); DM and VC have no digital nomad visa while AG (Nomad Digital Residence) does -- KN also has none, distinct from its 1984 Citizenship-by-Investment program (the world's oldest CBI scheme). Verification rotation (same run): re-verified 8 oldest-by-min-verified-date existing countries (BB, JP, US, GB, IN, BR, AU, KR -- selected via computed min-verified-date ranking excluding the two most recent rotation batches SK/LT/LV/AE/HK/RU/PK/RO on 2026-09-11 and IL/EG/VN/ID/SA/KE/PE/NZ on 2026-09-07) across variable (non-structural) fields via parallel research subagents. Notable corrections: BB corporate_tax was materially wrong (the 1%-5.5% sliding scale is not the general rate; the real standard rate is a flat 9% since Jan 2024, with the sliding scale now applying only to narrow categories); JP minimum_wage FY2026 prefectural submissions finalized at ¥1,177/hr national average (+4.9%, effective progressively from Oct 1, 2026), JP lgbtq_legal_status Supreme Court marriage-equality ruling timeline refined to 'early 2027', JP tourist_tax Tokyo's 2027 flat-3% reform formally approved (expanding to minpaku); GB tourist_tax updated for the 10 Sep 2026 England-mayors visitor-levy-powers announcement plus the pre-existing Manchester ABID fee, GB lgbtq_legal_status/parental_leave_policy were missing verified dates entirely (added); IN gdp_per_capita corrected to the actual 2025 World Bank observation ($2,702.5; the old value didn't cleanly match either 2024 or 2025); AU and KR both fully re-verified across 5-6 priority fields each with zero corrections needed (already accurate); BR fully re-verified across 6 priority fields with zero value corrections (only a 2026-specific 50%-discount nuance added to tourist_tax). Several lower-priority fields across all 8 rotation countries were left untouched this pass (not fabricated) due to shared WebSearch budget constraints across parallel research agents. 2026-09-15 Loop A batch: added BZ/WS/TO/VU (Belize/Samoa/Tonga/Vanuatu) as brand-new 56-field entries via parallel research subagents, cross-checked against primary sources where available; unsourced fields left null+flagged. Verification rotation: re-verified IL/EG/KW/SI/EE/LU/MT/MY (8 oldest-verified existing countries, all tied at 2026-07-13) across variable fields. Notable corrections: LU corporate_tax updated from a stale 17%/24.94%-effective figure to the 2025-budget-law 16%/~23.87%-effective rate; EG retirement_age/parental_leave_policy/public_holiday_in_lieu_policy resolved against new Labour Law No.14 of 2025; SI VAT-reform (ZIURS) referendum status updated; IL minimum_wage note corrected; KW holidays_2026_sample Prophet's Birthday date corrected to officially confirmed 27 Aug 2026. Loop A batch (2026-09-17): added 4 new 58-field country entries (SB Solomon Islands, KI Kiribati, TV Tuvalu, NR Nauru) via parallel research subagents cross-checked against primary/government sources (IRD/tax authority sites, World Bank, Nager.Date API where covered, government holiday gazettes where Nager did not cover the country, Human Dignity Trust, tobaccocontrollaws.org); unsourced fields left null+flagged rather than fabricated. Also ran the daily verification rotation on the 8 existing countries with the oldest per-field verified dates (CZ, EE, FI, HU, IE, IL, JO, MA), re-checking ~30-45 variable fields each against 2026 primary sources and updating values/verified dates where changed (notable corrections: MA retirement age corrected from an erroneous 65 to the ACAPS-confirmed 60; TV currency corrected to AUD, not NZD, as actually circulating; JO Mawlid al-Nabi 2026 holiday date corrected from Sep 4 to Aug 25; CZ/HU/IE LGBTQ legal status updated for 2025-2026 EU/domestic legal developments). 2026-09-25 batch: added LI/SM/AD/ST (Liechtenstein/San Marino/Andorra/Sao Tome and Principe) as new 57-field entries; re-verified 8 oldest-by-min-verified-date existing countries (MY, LU, MT, SE, NO, AE, EG, PL) across variable fields (notable: AE Eid Al-Fitr holiday corrected 3->4 days per Cabinet Resolution 27/2024; EG lgbtq_legal_status draft-bill date corrected 2026->2019; MT corporate_tax/parental_leave/lgbtq_status refreshed; PL parental_leave/business_ready_score upgraded to primary sources). Loop A batch (2026-09-28, Monday — holiday full-sync run): ran YEAR=2026 update-holidays.js first (112 countries updated via Nager.Date, 78 skipped/manual, 0 failures). Added MR/YE/SY/AF (Mauritania/Yemen/Syria/Afghanistan) as new 57-field entries via parallel research subagents cross-checked against primary/government sources (PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, World Bank, WHO road-safety/FCTC tobacco reports, SSA SSPTW, US State Dept travel-advisory/human-rights/religious-freedom reports, Human Dignity Trust, government holiday calendars for these non-Nager-covered countries); given ongoing conflict/fractured-governance conditions in YE/SY/AF, a larger-than-usual share of variable fields (minimum_wage, business_ready_score, several regulatory fields) are null+flagged rather than guessed, and holiday lists mark Islamic lunar holidays (est.). Also re-verified the 8 existing countries with the oldest last-touched verification date (SD, IQ, MZ, AO, MW, QA, ML, NE) across ~44 variable fields each against 2026 primary sources (notable: IQ retirement age restructured per Dec 2023 pension reform, alcohol sales effectively banned nationwide since 2023/2024; MW minimum wage restructured into sector tiers effective 1 Jun 2026, VAT rose 16.5%->17.5%; AO minimum wage raised to AOA 100,000/month effective Sep 2025, visa policy corrected — most Western passports need an e-Visa, not visa-free; ML/NE LGBTQ legal status hardened under 2024-2025 penal-code changes; QA travel-advisory raised to Level 3 following Feb 2026 US-Iran regional tensions; SD/ML several fields left null+flagged given war/junta-disrupted institutions). node validate-data.js: 0 errors. Loop A run (2026-09-28, JST Tuesday schedule): added KP (North Korea, 57-field new entry; DPRK's extreme opacity means many economic/regulatory fields — VAT, minimum wage, corporate tax, legal ages, road rules BAC/speed limits, cash declaration limit, paid vacation days, business_ready_score, banking hours, public-holiday-in-lieu policy, tourist tax, medication import rules — are null+flagged for lack of any reliable primary source; retirement age sourced via South Korean secondary press on a Sept 2024 DPRK labor-law revision, maternity leave sourced directly from the text of DPRK's 2015 Socialist Labour Law Article 66). Verification rotation (same run, selected via computed min-verified-date ranking excluding the two most recent rotation batches [SD/IQ/MZ/AO/MW/QA/ML/NE and MY/LU/MT/SE/NO/AE/EG/PL] and the three most recent new-country-addition batches [PW/FM/MH/MC, LI/SM/AD/ST, MR/YE/SY/AF] as those were already freshly researched): NL (5 fields updated — Verified the highest-change-risk NL fields against primary/current sources (AOW retirement age, ouderschapsverlof parental leave, 2026 public holidays, VAT, corporate tax, minimum wage, ETIAS/Schengen visa status, digital nomad visa, tourist tax) and found them all already accurate and current as of Sept 2026 (no change needed, several already had recent verified dates); updated business_ready_score (Netherlands now confirmed on the World Bank's B-READY 2026 covered-economies list) and gdp_per_capita (2025 World Bank figure of $73,684 is now finalized, not preliminary), and refreshed sourcing/verification dates on retirement_age, parental_leave_policy, and lgbtq_legal_status.), CH (9 fields updated — Checked all fields against primary/current sources as of 2026-09-28; confirmed most values (VAT rates, minimum wages, retirement age, corporate tax, parental leave, tourist tax, digital nomad visa absence, B-READY non-coverage) remain accurate, updated GDP per capita to newly-published 2025 World Bank figure, refreshed the VAT notes to reflect a scheduled 29 Nov 2026 AHV referendum plus a newly-surfaced separate defence-VAT proposal, and updated the EES note to reflect that the EU Entry/Exit System went fully live on 10 April 2026.), OM (5 fields updated — Oman's 2026 holiday calendar, VAT/corporate tax, tourist tax, drone/vaping/medication/cash-declaration rules, and LGBTQ status all checked out against primary/near-primary sources and needed no changes beyond a re-verify on lgbtq_legal_status; corrections were made to minimum_wage (the 2026 performance increment is a tiered 0-5% scale, not a flat 2-5%), retirement_age (the expat end-of-service-gratuity savings fund was delayed from July 2026 to 19 July 2027 by Royal Decree 60/2025), and business_ready_score (B-READY 2026 country scores still unpublished as of Sept 2026); a new paid_vacation_days field (30 days statutory minimum) was added since it was missing from the dataset.), TH (12 fields updated — Re-verified all TH fields against 2026 primary/news sources; most entries (VAT, corporate tax, minimum wage, alcohol hours, vaping ban, holidays, LGBTQ status, retirement age, visa-exemption overhaul) were already accurate and only had verification dates refreshed, but three fields needed real corrections: the DTV digital nomad visa now requires applying from one's home/residence country plus a criminal record check (from 31 Aug 2026), the tourist entry fee proposal has grown from THB 300 to THB 450 and is still in consultation (not collected, now eyeing 2027), and Bangkok's 20-baht flat train fare (launched Oct 2025) is Thai-ID-only and not usable by tourists.), PT (4 fields updated — Corrected Madeira's 2026 regional minimum wage (€980/month, not €968) and Madeira's reduced VAT rate (4%, not 5%); refreshed corporate_tax with precise derrama estadual brackets and digital_nomad_visa with the computed 2026 income threshold (~€3,680/month) — all other checked fields (holidays_2026_sample dates, retirement age, parental leave, tourist tax, LGBTQ status, alcohol/smoking/drone rules, GDP per capita, etc.) were confirmed accurate and left unchanged; Portugal's B-READY 2025 numeric pillar scores remained unconfirmable (JS-rendered World Bank page) so business_ready_score was left as-is per instructions.), TR (6 fields updated — Re-verified Turkey's dataset against current 2026 sources: VAT, minimum wage (confirmed no mid-year 2026 adjustment), 2026 religious/national holiday dates, tourist accommodation tax, corporate tax, digital nomad visa, GDP-per-capita hedge, and B-READY score all check out as already accurate and were only refreshed with verification dates/added corroboration. Two fields needed substantive corrections: retirement_age (Turkey's semi-annual pension adjustment raised the minimum pension from TRY 20,000 to TRY 23,552/month in July 2026, and the age note was clarified to distinguish insurance-date cohorts), and lgbtq_legal_status (a major nationwide crackdown on LGBT organizations began mid-September 2026, with 100+ arrests and dozens jailed under existing obscenity/morality laws, which materially changes the practical risk picture even though no new criminalizing statute has passed).), SK (5 fields updated — Re-verified all SK fields via current web sources as of 2026-09-28; the bulk of the dataset (VAT, corporate tax, retirement age, minimum wage 2026 figure, GDP, holidays, LGBTQ status substance, tourist tax rates, parental allowance amounts) was already accurate and well-sourced from prior checks, so most fields are left unchanged. Material updates: the EU's ETIAS launch has slipped from its planned Q4 2026 date to an unconfirmed 2027 date (driven by EES border-queue congestion), Slovakia's 2027 minimum wage has now been fixed at EUR 972/month, and the parental allowance figures plus the Fico government's same-sex marriage non-recognition stance were independently reconfirmed as still current.), PK (3 fields updated — Re-verification against primary/government sources found the 2026 Eid-ul-Fitr public holiday was actually gazetted for March 20-21 (not March 21-23 as previously recorded, since the Shawal moon was sighted a day earlier than the tentative schedule), and that the federal parental-leave statute is the Maternity and Paternity Leave Act, 2023 (not 2020); all other checked fields (VAT, corporate tax, minimum wage, retirement age, visa/e-Visa rules, digital nomad visa, LGBTQ legal status, tourist tax, GDP per capita, B-READY score, and the various lifestyle/legal-ages/customs fields) were confirmed accurate as already recorded or had no reliable newer source to justify a change.). Notable cross-country findings: Thailand overhauled its visa-exemption structure effective 15 Sept 2026 (60-day exemption replaced by tiered 30-day/15-day/VOA system) and tightened its DTV digital nomad visa (31 Aug 2026, home-country filing + criminal record check required); Turkey saw a significant LGBTQ rights deterioration (Sept 2026 nationwide crackdown, 100+ arrests) despite no new criminalizing statute; Slovakia's EU-law-conflicting non-recognition of foreign same-sex marriages remains unresolved after a Nov 2025 CJEU ruling; EU-wide ETIAS launch has slipped from Q4 2026 to an unconfirmed 2027 date due to EES border congestion (confirmed independently by both the NL/CH... region checks and the SK check); Pakistan's actual gazetted 2026 Eid-ul-Fitr dates (Mar 20-21) differed from the pre-moon-sighting tentative dates previously recorded. Verification rotation batch (2026-09-29, verification-only mode, 16 countries): TD (Checked all variableFields for Chad via PwC (VAT 18%/9%, corporate tax 35%), wage trackers (SMIG unchanged at XAF 60,000/month since 2011), World Bank API (GDP per capita revised to $1,022 for 2025; B-READY pillar scores now populated as 61.1/23.5/48.1 from previously null, and confirmed Chad is not in B-READY 2025), Wikipedia/Human Dignity Trust (LGBTQ criminalization unchanged), and tobaccocontrollaws.org (vaping now confirmed unregulated, filling a previously null field). The most substantive change is holidays_2026_sample: it was missing three Islamic holidays observed as public holidays in Chad (Eid al-Fitr ~Mar 20, Eid al-Adha May 27, Mawlid ~Aug 25), corroborated by 3-4 independent calendar/HR sources though Nager.Date's API omits them; these were added with the caveat that exact dates depend on moon sighting and may shift by a day. Visa e-visa mandate timeline (11/21 May 2026) was refined. Fields left untouched appeared already accurate and were not specifically re-checked this pass due to search-budget limits (e.g., internet_connectivity, sim/eSIM, travel insurance, customs allowances, banking hours, drone rules, cash declaration limit) or remain genuinely unverifiable with no reliable primary source (tourist_tax, alcohol_sales_hours, road_rules speed limits, legal_ages tobacco age, public_holiday_in_lieu_policy scope) and were left as-is/null per instructions rather than guessed.) GN (Verified all fields against 2026 government, ministerial and reputable secondary sources. Confirmed unchanged and accurate: VAT 18% (DNI/PwC), corporate tax 25% + 3% turnover minimum tax (DNI/taxatlas), SMIG minimum wage GNF 550,000/month (unchanged since 2022), maternity leave (14 weeks, no statutory paternity leave), visa regime (e-visa/visa-on-arrival, yellow fever cert, ECOWAS exemption), digital nomad visa (none exists), and LGBTQ legal status (Article 274 criminalization, no protections; the 2025 constitutional referendum and 2026 legislative election under the Doumbouya transition have not changed this or business-climate scoring). Major correction: holidays_2026_sample was missing all Islamic holidays; replaced the 7-item list with a corroborated 12-item list (adding Laylat al-Qadr Mar 16, Eid al-Fitr Mar 20, two-day Tabaski May 27-28, and Mawlid Aug 25), each confirmed via multiple Guinean government ministry communiqués (Ministry of Employment, Labour and Social Protection, citing Decree D/2022/0526/PRG/CNRD/SGG) reported in Guinean media in real time during 2026. Updated business_ready_score note to reflect Guinea's continued exclusion from B-READY 2025 and planned inclusion in B-READY 2026. Flagged as unresolved/left unchanged: gdp_per_capita (secondary sources conflict — World Bank-cited $1,717 for 2024 vs. $1,572 (countryeconomy.com) vs. $1,098 for 2025 (tradingeconomics, likely different methodology) — no single authoritative figure could be confirmed, so the existing value was left as-is) and retirement_age (SSA profile source is dated 2018-2019; no newer authoritative CNSS figure was found, so left unchanged with the caveat that it may be stale).) GM (Verified all variableFields against 2026 primary/official sources (Gambia Revenue Authority, Gambia Immigration Department/gambia.gov.gm, Human Dignity Trust, World Bank API, and official State House holiday declarations cross-checked against officeholidays.com/timeanddate/calendarific). VAT (15%), corporate tax (27%/turnover-based), minimum wage (GMD 50/day since 2015), no e-Visa/no digital nomad visa, and core LGBTQ criminalization facts were all confirmed accurate and re-verified; LGBTQ note was enriched with a corroborated September 2024 minimum-sentence increase (2 to 5 years), while a conflicting single-source claim of a 2025 'Criminal Offences Act' recodification was deliberately NOT adopted pending corroboration. GDP per capita was updated to the newer World Bank figure for 2025 (USD 919, revising the prior 2024 estimate). The most significant correction is holidays_2026_sample: 'Revolution Day' (July 22) no longer appears in any current Gambian holiday listing (it was tied to the pre-2017 Jammeh era) and was removed, while five Islamic holidays for 2026 (Koriteh/Eid al-Fitr Mar 19-20, Tobaski/Eid al-Adha May 27-28, Ashura Jun 26, Mawlid Aug 25) were added based on convergent reputable holiday-tracking sources; exact day-of-moon-sighting gazette notices for each individual Islamic holiday could not be retrieved directly from State House's site due to page-access limitations, so these dates should be treated as highly likely but not 100% gazette-confirmed. Fields left unchanged/flagged as before: business_ready_score pillars (JS-rendered WB portal still not extractable), tourist_tax exact amount, medication_import_rules, and road_rules BAC (no primary numeric source found).) SL (Verified GST (15%, unchanged), corporate tax (30%, unchanged and corroborated by the Sierra Leone 2026 Budget Statement), minimum wage (SLE 1,200/month effective 1 April 2026, unchanged), and visa/e-Visa terms (unchanged) against current NRA, budget-news, and gov.uk sources; refreshed their verified dates. Updated GDP per capita to the latest World Bank API vintage (2025: ~US$846; the prior 2024 figure of $873 has since been revised down to ~$807 by the World Bank). Materially updated lgbtq_legal_status: Human Dignity Trust now documents an August 2026 police raid and arrests targeting a gay gathering in Freetown plus activists fleeing the country, indicating enforcement is no longer 'rare' as previously stated. Filled in previously-null smoking_vaping_rules fields (public smoking and vaping both restricted under the Tobacco and Nicotine Control Act 2022) and drone_rules (SLCAA registration/no-fly-zone requirements), both from reputable secondary sources, flagged for confirmation against primary legal/regulatory text. Left unresolved and unchanged (no reliable primary source found, flagged as-is): legal_ages (drinking/smoking), banking_hours, alcohol_sales_hours, sim_esim_availability (eSIM), tourist_tax, business_ready_score numeric pillar scores, internet_connectivity average broadband speed (only a low-confidence crowdsourced figure of ~34 Mbps was found, not used), cash_declaration_limit (pre-redenomination figure not reconfirmed), and parental_leave_policy (only a vendor/aggregator source available, not independently verified). holidays_2026_sample was corroborated exactly by the Nager.Date API and left unchanged, but officeholidays.com additionally lists three Islamic holidays (Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Maulid-un-Nabi) and an Int'l Women's Day in-lieu date not present in either the current data or Nager.Date; this discrepancy could not be resolved against an official Sierra Leone government calendar this session and is flagged rather than guessed.) LR (Core Liberia-specific figures were checked against current primary/near-primary sources and found unchanged and confirmed accurate: GST remains 13% on services (15% telecom) effective 1 May 2026 under the LRA's 2025 Tax Amendment Act with an 18% VAT still planned for 1 Jan 2027 (LRA notice); corporate tax remains 25% standard (15-30% for specialized sectors, PwC); minimum wage remains USD 0.68/hour unskilled / USD 0.43/hour domestic, unchanged since 2015. holidays_2026_sample (11 entries) was cross-checked against the Nager.Date API and matches exactly on date, name, and count — no changes made. Visa-on-arrival exclusion details were confirmed precise (23 named embassy countries including US/UK excluded from e-Visa). LGBTQ legal status is unchanged — same-sex activity remains illegal under the 1976 Penal Law with a 1-year maximum penalty; the 2024 Anti-Homosexuality Law proposal (which would raise penalties toward life imprisonment) remains stalled in committee and has not passed, and a narrow Decent Work Act employment anti-discrimination clause was added to the notes. Digital nomad visa: confirmed no official program exists. No Liberia cryptocurrency field exists in the current schema, so it was not added (per no-shape-change instruction); flag this as a possible future field (Central Bank of Liberia has publicly discouraged private digital-currency issuance but has not enacted a comprehensive crypto law). Fields with no reliable primary/government source located (e.g., exact alcohol sales hours, medication import rules, cash-declaration penalty schedule, tourist tax/LNTA fee specifics) were left unchanged as flagged in the original data, consistent with 'do not guess' guidance; a full secondary re-check of every remaining lower-risk field (retirement age, parental leave, banking hours, etc.) was not completed due to session search-budget limits, but no red flags were found in spot checks.) TG (Updated holidays_2026_sample to add the two Islamic holidays Togo officially observes (Korité/Eid al-Fitr ~20 Mar 2026 and Tabaski/Eid al-Adha ~27 May 2026), which were missing from the prior 11-entry list; these exact dates depend on moon sighting and are corroborated by OfficeHolidays.com and Togolese local press (Wikipedia's '2026 in Togo' page has stale/incorrect Islamic dates and was not used). VAT (18%), corporate tax (27%), and minimum wage (SMIG 52,500 XOF/month) were re-verified as unchanged for 2026 via secondary tax aggregators and Togo's 2026 Finance Law revenue-projection reporting, which references no rate changes. Updated the visa field with granular e-visa fee tiers and confirmed details of the 18 May 2026 African Union visa-free entry policy (30-day stays, pre-arrival declaration required). Updated lgbtq_legal_status with the specific Penal Code articles (392-393) and penalty range (1-3 years imprisonment and/or 1-3 million CFA fine), sourced from Human Dignity Trust rather than a primary legal text. Fields with no reliable primary source found this session (legal drinking/smoking ages, banking hours, alcohol sales hours, tourist tax, cash declaration limit, customs duty-free allowance, B-READY 2024 numeric pillar scores, average fixed broadband speed, public-holiday-in-lieu policy, digital nomad visa) were left unchanged/as-is, consistent with their existing flags.) IS (Verified Iceland's VAT (24%/11%, including the confirmed 1 May-31 Aug 2026 fuel VAT cut), 20% corporate tax rate, non-statutory minimum wage (ISK 513,834 floor from Jan 2026 per VR/LÍV agreement), digital nomad visa terms, LGBTQ legal status, parental leave cap (ISK 900,000), retirement age rules, and tourist/lodging tax rate against current government and primary/secondary sources — all confirmed accurate and refreshed with a 2026-09-29 verification date. The holidays_2026_sample list (16 entries) was checked against Wikipedia's Public Holidays in Iceland page and cross-checked by date calculation (Easter-based moveable dates); all dates and names match exactly and required no changes. The ETIAS/visa_requirement field was updated: EES is now fully operational (since 10 Apr 2026), while ETIAS still has no officially confirmed launch date as of late September 2026 — 2027 remains an unofficial working expectation pending an eu-LISA board decision, so this should be rechecked once a new date is formally announced. business_ready_score remains unconfirmed/null due to lack of a verifiable published Iceland score on the World Bank B-READY site; flagged for a future recheck. Fields not explicitly re-verified in this pass (already carrying recent mid/late-2026 verified dates and well-sourced, e.g. alcohol sales hours, smoking/vaping rules, drone rules, medication import rules, cash declaration limit) were left as-is per instructions.) RS (Verified all fields against 2026 primary/official sources where available. VAT (20%/10%), corporate tax (15% flat), minimum wage (RSD 371 net/hour from 1 Jan 2026, +10.1%), retirement age (men 65 / women 64 in 2026), GDP per capita (USD 15,262 for 2025, confirmed via live World Bank API), digital nomad visa (still none, entrepreneur/temporary-residence route unchanged) and holidays_2026_sample (all 11 entries cross-checked exactly against the Nager.Date API and paragraf.rs/b92.net Serbian holiday calendars, including Statehood Day shifting to Mon 16-Tue 17 Feb because 15 Feb 2026 falls on a Sunday) were all reconfirmed unchanged and re-dated 2026-09-29. lgbtq_legal_status was refined: a newer draft same-sex civil union bill (Sep 2024, Green-Left Front) is still pending, superseding the previous note that only cited a 2021 stalled draft; core legal status (no marriage/union recognition, 2006 constitutional man-woman definition) is unchanged. Two items could not be conclusively verified and are flagged rather than guessed: business_ready_score (World Bank B-READY 2025 report has been released covering ~170 economies, but no Serbia-specific score/ranking could be located on worldbank.org as of this check - left as-is) and visa_requirement_common_passports (left unchanged; a secondary source referenced a Serbian 'Digital Travel Authorization' introduced April 2025, but this could not be corroborated on Serbia's official MFA site, so it was not added). No crypto/digital-assets field exists in the current schema, so the Law on Digital Assets framework has nothing to update against.) KZ (Verified all variableFields for Kazakhstan; the most significant fix was holidays_2026_sample, which was missing two gazetted 2026 non-working holidays (7 Jan Orthodox Christmas and 27 May Kurban Ait, the latter confirmed by the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Kazakhstan/DUMK calendar) and had a truncated holiday name, all now corrected — note Kazakhstan's official calendar does not include Oraza Ait (Eid al-Fitr) as a public holiday, only Kurban Ait. VAT (16%/5%, 10,000 MCI threshold), corporate tax (20% standard, 25% banks/gambling from 2026), minimum wage (KZT 85,000, frozen), the Neo Nomad digital-nomad visa (confirmed still operational, not absent as sometimes reported), and the LGBT-propaganda law (signed 30 Dec 2025) were all corroborated via Big Four/government-adjacent sources and refreshed; corporate_tax notes were expanded to cover SEZ/AIFC and sector-specific rates. The visa-free passport count was refined from '~80' to '~87' per an MFA-table summary, but flagged for a full official cross-check since only a secondary source was available. Business_ready_score, gdp_per_capita, retirement_age, and the pending alcohol-retail-ban status could not be re-confirmed with a fresher 2026-dated primary source this pass and were left unchanged; no crypto/digital-asset regulatory field exists in this country's current dataset, so none was added.) BH (VAT (10%), corporate tax framework (0% general / 46% oil-gas / 15% DMTT for large MNEs from FY2025), minimum wage (no private-sector statutory floor; BHD 300 public-sector floor for nationals), visa policy (eVisa/GCC visa-free), and the 'no confirmed digital nomad visa' finding were all re-confirmed current via PwC/EY/KPMG, Wikipedia, and travel-industry sources and re-dated 2026-09-29; no substantive changes needed, only notes clarified. LGBTQ legal status was refined to more accurately reflect that morality/indecency laws are regularly (not just occasionally) used to target LGBTQ+ people, per Wikipedia's aggregation of U.S. State Department reporting. In holidays_2026_sample, the Dec 17 entry was mislabeled 'National Day' (duplicate of Dec 16) and has been corrected to 'عيد الجلوس' (Accession Day of the King), per Bahrain's PMO circular. Note: evisa.gov.bh blocked direct automated access, so that field relies on strong secondary corroboration rather than a fresh primary fetch; no 'crypto regulatory status' field exists in the current schema (CBB's Crypto-Asset Module / Volume 6 remains the operative framework, but there is nothing to update since no such field is present).) GE (Corrected holidays_2026_sample: it was missing 'Day of Family Purity and Respect for Parents' (17 May), which the government made an official annual public holiday by resolution in 2024 as a counterpart to the anti-LGBT 'family values' law — confirmed via Office Holidays, PB Services, and Calendarific, bringing Georgia's 2026 total to 18 official holidays. Re-verified VAT (18% standard, unchanged), corporate income tax (Estonian model, 15% on distribution / 20% for banks-financial institutions, unchanged), and minimum wage (GEL 20 private / GEL 115 public, unrevised since 1999) via PwC and other 2026 sources — all confirmed accurate, no change needed. Confirmed Georgia's inbound visa-free regime for EU/UK/US and 94+ other nationalities (up to 365 days) is unchanged for 2026; a 2025 tightening only affects ~16-17 specific nationalities (e.g. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Syria) who must now hold a Gulf-state visa/residence permit valid for at least one year — this doesn't affect 'common passport' holders, so left as-is. LGBTQ legal status was cross-checked against Wikipedia, HRW, and Outright International and found still accurate as stated (decriminalized 2000; marriage/civil unions/adoption/gender-affirming care banned; Sept 2024 'Family Values' law restrictions in force; no further material legal change found through 2026, though civil-society reporting notes continued deterioration/Pride at risk). Digital nomad visa ('Remotely from Georgia') confirmed still active with the same terms; verified date refreshed. Could not independently re-confirm via live source fetch: the exact 'mandatory since 1 Jan 2026' travel-insurance claim (geoconsul.gov.ge page was JS-rendered/inaccessible to fetch) and the current tourist_tax non-enactment beyond a 2023-dated source — both are left unchanged as no contradicting evidence was found, but flagged for a follow-up direct-source check.) AM (Confirmed VAT (20% standard, no reduced rate) and corporate tax (18%) unchanged via PwC Tax Summaries. Corrected minimum_wage: it has actually been AMD 75,000/month since January 1, 2023 (Law HO-501-N), not 'since January 2025' as previously stated, and the hourly equivalent is AMD 450 (not 500); the proposed AMD 85,000 raise was confirmed still not enacted and excluded from the 2026 budget per Armenian press (aravot.am, arka.am). Updated digital_nomad_visa and visa_requirement_common_passports with refreshed verification (both remain substantively accurate - no dedicated nomad visa exists; MFA visa-free/residence-permit-exemption rules confirmed current). Revised lgbtq_legal_status: ILGA-Europe's 2026 Rainbow Map and Pink Armenia's 2025 report show Armenia has NO formal legal gender recognition mechanism at all (contradicting the prior claim that gender markers could be changed 'after surgery'), and the anti-discrimination draft law still excludes SOGI as of 2026. Flagged for human review: holidays_2026_sample exactly matches the Nager.Date API output (acceptable corroborating source per instructions) so was left unchanged, but two discrepancies were found against the Armenian Labor Code's official 13-holiday list (per Wikipedia's summary, not a primary source): Nager.Date/the current field omit January 27 (Memorial Day for fallen defenders) and include an extra January 5 entry plus an April 5 entry mislabeled with the local name \"Ամանոր\" (New Year) when it is actually Easter Sunday (\"Զատիկ\") - not corrected here since no primary government calendar could be directly accessed to confirm the authoritative 2026 list. business_ready_score remains null - no accessible primary source publishes Armenia's specific B-READY 2025 composite score. No dedicated 'crypto' field exists in this dataset to update. All other fields (tipping, business hours, culture/etiquette notes, retirement age, parental leave, banking hours, customs/medication/cash-declaration rules, smoking/drone rules, tourist tax, GDP per capita, etc.) were reviewed and left unchanged as they remain well-sourced and recently verified (within the last ~2 months) or are inherently qualitative/non-government-sourced by nature.) AZ (Confirmed unchanged: standard VAT (18%), corporate profit tax (20%), and minimum wage (400 AZN/month for 2026), all refreshed with 2026-09-29 verification against PwC and Azertag. Corrected the e-Visa service fee on evisa.gov.az, which now shows USD 20 state fee + USD 9 service fee (USD 29 total), up from the previously recorded USD 3 service fee - confirmed via two independent reads of the official portal. Refreshed the digital nomad visa entry (still not operational; now reportedly targeted for 2027-2028 under a 2026-2030 tourism program) and the LGBTQ legal-status entry (unchanged legal facts, added corroboration of a December 2025 HRW-documented raid and the 2024 ECtHR torture/discrimination ruling). The holidays_2026_sample list was cross-checked in full against Azerbaijan's official 2026 production calendar (Cabinet of Ministers Decision, reported via APA and News.az) and matches exactly - left unchanged. Flagged, not changed: retirement_age's claim of women reaching parity with men on 1 July 2026 could not be confirmed against the primary law text (dost.gov.az), which still shows the original transition ending 1 July 2027 - the underlying ambiguity was already noted in the existing field and remains unresolved. No crypto-regulation field exists in this dataset to update, though note for future reference that Azerbaijan is currently advancing a new virtual-assets/crypto licensing law (targeted for passage by end of 2026) that is not yet in force.) UZ (Verified Uzbekistan's highest-risk fields against current sources: VAT (12% standard / voluntary 6% from June 2026 / IT Park exemption to 2028) and corporate tax (15% standard, 20% for select sectors) are confirmed unchanged. Minimum wage was updated from UZS 1,271,000 to UZS 1,360,000/month, effective 1 September 2026 per Presidential Decree PF-115 (23 June 2026) — the old figure is now stale given today's date. The full 2026 holidays_2026_sample list was cross-checked date-by-date against official decree-based reporting (Ramazon Hayit 20 March, Qurbon Hayit 27 May, New Year/Independence Day/Constitution Day shifts) and matches exactly, so it was left unchanged. Retirement age, LGBTQ legal status (Article 120 still in force, no decriminalization), the US/EU-led visa-free expansion, absence of a dedicated digital nomad visa, and the B-READY null-score rationale were all reconfirmed as accurate, with minor note refinements and refreshed verification dates. Due to a session web-search quota limit, the remaining cultural/etiquette fields (tipping, business card etiquette, gift-giving, dress code, negotiation style, religion composition, etc.) and several travel-logistics fields already carrying July-September 2026 verification dates (tourist tax, medication import, cash declaration, smoking/vaping, drones) were not independently re-searched this pass and are left as-is; no red flags were found for them in the sources consulted for adjacent fields.) KH (Re-verified all variableFields for Cambodia; core figures check out against current sources. VAT (10% standard, 0% exports, temporary 4% effective rate on gasoline/diesel via state VAT absorption from 20 Mar 2026), CIT (20% standard), the 2026 garment/textile/footwear minimum wage ($210/mo, $208 probation, Prakas 214/25 eff. 1 Jan 2026), e-Visa fee (~$36) and VOA (~$30), and the holidays_2026_sample list all matched official/reputable sources (Andersen's summary of Sub-Decree No. 167 confirms the same 21 dates and 22 holiday-days) with no discrepancies, so those were left unchanged since their JSON structure has no 'verified' key to refresh without altering shape. tourist_tax (2% accommodation tax, Prakas 173) and digital_nomad_visa (still none, Ordinary/E-class visa used instead) were reconfirmed and their 'verified' dates bumped to 2026-09-29. lgbtq_legal_status remains accurate as of Sept 2026: same-sex marriage still not enacted despite a Feb 2026 Human Rights Committee statement of support (no field update since no 'verified' key exists). business_ready_score correctly remains null (no numeric World Bank B-READY overall score found). Not independently re-checked this pass (left as-is, already dated 2026-07/08/09 with primary sub-decree/customs sources): medication_import_rules, cash_declaration_limit, smoking_vaping_rules, drone_rules, retirement_age, parental_leave_policy. Note: Cambodia's crypto framework (NBC Prakas B7-024-735, licensed entities/banks only for cryptoasset services, unbacked crypto exposure still banned) is not a tracked field in this dataset, so no update was made there.) LA (Confirmed VAT remains 10% (reinstated 2024 after a 2022-2024 dip to 7%, no further change through 2026) and updated corporate_tax notes to reflect the Income Tax Law that took effect 1 July 2026 (now in force): LSX-listed rate is now 10%/10 years (was 13%/4 years), alcohol producers raised to 22%, and new casino (30%) and multinational-group minimum top-up (15%) rates were added; the 20% standard rate and other special rates were unchanged. Minimum wage stays at LAK 2,500,000/month with no confirmed 2026 increase yet -- a tripartite review (proposals LAK 2.8M-4.1M) was pending Prime Minister's Office approval as of the latest available reporting (March 2026); flagged for re-check since a decision was promised 'within 2026'. holidays_2026_sample cross-checked against officeholidays.com and matches exactly (12 entries, dates/names identical); Nager.Date does not list Laos, so it could not be used for corroboration. Visa and LGBTQ-status entries were reconfirmed as accurate with refreshed sources/dates; lower-priority cultural/logistics fields (tipping, business hours, road rules, retirement age, parental leave, etc.) were spot-checked for plausibility but not independently re-verified this pass and were left unchanged.) Verification rotation batch (2026-09-29, verification-only mode, 16 countries): TD (Checked all variableFields for Chad via PwC (VAT 18%/9%, corporate tax 35%), wage trackers (SMIG unchanged at XAF 60,000/month since 2011), World Bank API (GDP per capita revised to $1,022 for 2025; B-READY pillar scores now populated as 61.1/23.5/48.1 from previously null, and confirmed Chad is not in B-READY 2025), Wikipedia/Human Dignity Trust (LGBTQ criminalization unchanged), and tobaccocontrollaws.org (vaping now confirmed unregulated, filling a previously null field). The most substantive change is holidays_2026_sample: it was missing three Islamic holidays observed as public holidays in Chad (Eid al-Fitr ~Mar 20, Eid al-Adha May 27, Mawlid ~Aug 25), corroborated by 3-4 independent calendar/HR sources though Nager.Date's API omits them; these were added with the caveat that exact dates depend on moon sighting and may shift by a day. Visa e-visa mandate timeline (11/21 May 2026) was refined. Fields left untouched appeared already accurate and were not specifically re-checked this pass due to search-budget limits (e.g., internet_connectivity, sim/eSIM, travel insurance, customs allowances, banking hours, drone rules, cash declaration limit) or remain genuinely unverifiable with no reliable primary source (tourist_tax, alcohol_sales_hours, road_rules speed limits, legal_ages tobacco age, public_holiday_in_lieu_policy scope) and were left as-is/null per instructions rather than guessed.) GN (Verified all fields against 2026 government, ministerial and reputable secondary sources. Confirmed unchanged and accurate: VAT 18% (DNI/PwC), corporate tax 25% + 3% turnover minimum tax (DNI/taxatlas), SMIG minimum wage GNF 550,000/month (unchanged since 2022), maternity leave (14 weeks, no statutory paternity leave), visa regime (e-visa/visa-on-arrival, yellow fever cert, ECOWAS exemption), digital nomad visa (none exists), and LGBTQ legal status (Article 274 criminalization, no protections; the 2025 constitutional referendum and 2026 legislative election under the Doumbouya transition have not changed this or business-climate scoring). Major correction: holidays_2026_sample was missing all Islamic holidays; replaced the 7-item list with a corroborated 12-item list (adding Laylat al-Qadr Mar 16, Eid al-Fitr Mar 20, two-day Tabaski May 27-28, and Mawlid Aug 25), each confirmed via multiple Guinean government ministry communiqués (Ministry of Employment, Labour and Social Protection, citing Decree D/2022/0526/PRG/CNRD/SGG) reported in Guinean media in real time during 2026. Updated business_ready_score note to reflect Guinea's continued exclusion from B-READY 2025 and planned inclusion in B-READY 2026. Flagged as unresolved/left unchanged: gdp_per_capita (secondary sources conflict — World Bank-cited $1,717 for 2024 vs. $1,572 (countryeconomy.com) vs. $1,098 for 2025 (tradingeconomics, likely different methodology) — no single authoritative figure could be confirmed, so the existing value was left as-is) and retirement_age (SSA profile source is dated 2018-2019; no newer authoritative CNSS figure was found, so left unchanged with the caveat that it may be stale).) GM (Verified all variableFields against 2026 primary/official sources (Gambia Revenue Authority, Gambia Immigration Department/gambia.gov.gm, Human Dignity Trust, World Bank API, and official State House holiday declarations cross-checked against officeholidays.com/timeanddate/calendarific). VAT (15%), corporate tax (27%/turnover-based), minimum wage (GMD 50/day since 2015), no e-Visa/no digital nomad visa, and core LGBTQ criminalization facts were all confirmed accurate and re-verified; LGBTQ note was enriched with a corroborated September 2024 minimum-sentence increase (2 to 5 years), while a conflicting single-source claim of a 2025 'Criminal Offences Act' recodification was deliberately NOT adopted pending corroboration. GDP per capita was updated to the newer World Bank figure for 2025 (USD 919, revising the prior 2024 estimate). The most significant correction is holidays_2026_sample: 'Revolution Day' (July 22) no longer appears in any current Gambian holiday listing (it was tied to the pre-2017 Jammeh era) and was removed, while five Islamic holidays for 2026 (Koriteh/Eid al-Fitr Mar 19-20, Tobaski/Eid al-Adha May 27-28, Ashura Jun 26, Mawlid Aug 25) were added based on convergent reputable holiday-tracking sources; exact day-of-moon-sighting gazette notices for each individual Islamic holiday could not be retrieved directly from State House's site due to page-access limitations, so these dates should be treated as highly likely but not 100% gazette-confirmed. Fields left unchanged/flagged as before: business_ready_score pillars (JS-rendered WB portal still not extractable), tourist_tax exact amount, medication_import_rules, and road_rules BAC (no primary numeric source found).) SL (Verified GST (15%, unchanged), corporate tax (30%, unchanged and corroborated by the Sierra Leone 2026 Budget Statement), minimum wage (SLE 1,200/month effective 1 April 2026, unchanged), and visa/e-Visa terms (unchanged) against current NRA, budget-news, and gov.uk sources; refreshed their verified dates. Updated GDP per capita to the latest World Bank API vintage (2025: ~US$846; the prior 2024 figure of $873 has since been revised down to ~$807 by the World Bank). Materially updated lgbtq_legal_status: Human Dignity Trust now documents an August 2026 police raid and arrests targeting a gay gathering in Freetown plus activists fleeing the country, indicating enforcement is no longer 'rare' as previously stated. Filled in previously-null smoking_vaping_rules fields (public smoking and vaping both restricted under the Tobacco and Nicotine Control Act 2022) and drone_rules (SLCAA registration/no-fly-zone requirements), both from reputable secondary sources, flagged for confirmation against primary legal/regulatory text. Left unresolved and unchanged (no reliable primary source found, flagged as-is): legal_ages (drinking/smoking), banking_hours, alcohol_sales_hours, sim_esim_availability (eSIM), tourist_tax, business_ready_score numeric pillar scores, internet_connectivity average broadband speed (only a low-confidence crowdsourced figure of ~34 Mbps was found, not used), cash_declaration_limit (pre-redenomination figure not reconfirmed), and parental_leave_policy (only a vendor/aggregator source available, not independently verified). holidays_2026_sample was corroborated exactly by the Nager.Date API and left unchanged, but officeholidays.com additionally lists three Islamic holidays (Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Maulid-un-Nabi) and an Int'l Women's Day in-lieu date not present in either the current data or Nager.Date; this discrepancy could not be resolved against an official Sierra Leone government calendar this session and is flagged rather than guessed.) LR (Core Liberia-specific figures were checked against current primary/near-primary sources and found unchanged and confirmed accurate: GST remains 13% on services (15% telecom) effective 1 May 2026 under the LRA's 2025 Tax Amendment Act with an 18% VAT still planned for 1 Jan 2027 (LRA notice); corporate tax remains 25% standard (15-30% for specialized sectors, PwC); minimum wage remains USD 0.68/hour unskilled / USD 0.43/hour domestic, unchanged since 2015. holidays_2026_sample (11 entries) was cross-checked against the Nager.Date API and matches exactly on date, name, and count — no changes made. Visa-on-arrival exclusion details were confirmed precise (23 named embassy countries including US/UK excluded from e-Visa). LGBTQ legal status is unchanged — same-sex activity remains illegal under the 1976 Penal Law with a 1-year maximum penalty; the 2024 Anti-Homosexuality Law proposal (which would raise penalties toward life imprisonment) remains stalled in committee and has not passed, and a narrow Decent Work Act employment anti-discrimination clause was added to the notes. Digital nomad visa: confirmed no official program exists. No Liberia cryptocurrency field exists in the current schema, so it was not added (per no-shape-change instruction); flag this as a possible future field (Central Bank of Liberia has publicly discouraged private digital-currency issuance but has not enacted a comprehensive crypto law). Fields with no reliable primary/government source located (e.g., exact alcohol sales hours, medication import rules, cash-declaration penalty schedule, tourist tax/LNTA fee specifics) were left unchanged as flagged in the original data, consistent with 'do not guess' guidance; a full secondary re-check of every remaining lower-risk field (retirement age, parental leave, banking hours, etc.) was not completed due to session search-budget limits, but no red flags were found in spot checks.) TG (Updated holidays_2026_sample to add the two Islamic holidays Togo officially observes (Korité/Eid al-Fitr ~20 Mar 2026 and Tabaski/Eid al-Adha ~27 May 2026), which were missing from the prior 11-entry list; these exact dates depend on moon sighting and are corroborated by OfficeHolidays.com and Togolese local press (Wikipedia's '2026 in Togo' page has stale/incorrect Islamic dates and was not used). VAT (18%), corporate tax (27%), and minimum wage (SMIG 52,500 XOF/month) were re-verified as unchanged for 2026 via secondary tax aggregators and Togo's 2026 Finance Law revenue-projection reporting, which references no rate changes. Updated the visa field with granular e-visa fee tiers and confirmed details of the 18 May 2026 African Union visa-free entry policy (30-day stays, pre-arrival declaration required). Updated lgbtq_legal_status with the specific Penal Code articles (392-393) and penalty range (1-3 years imprisonment and/or 1-3 million CFA fine), sourced from Human Dignity Trust rather than a primary legal text. Fields with no reliable primary source found this session (legal drinking/smoking ages, banking hours, alcohol sales hours, tourist tax, cash declaration limit, customs duty-free allowance, B-READY 2024 numeric pillar scores, average fixed broadband speed, public-holiday-in-lieu policy, digital nomad visa) were left unchanged/as-is, consistent with their existing flags.) IS (Verified Iceland's VAT (24%/11%, including the confirmed 1 May-31 Aug 2026 fuel VAT cut), 20% corporate tax rate, non-statutory minimum wage (ISK 513,834 floor from Jan 2026 per VR/LÍV agreement), digital nomad visa terms, LGBTQ legal status, parental leave cap (ISK 900,000), retirement age rules, and tourist/lodging tax rate against current government and primary/secondary sources — all confirmed accurate and refreshed with a 2026-09-29 verification date. The holidays_2026_sample list (16 entries) was checked against Wikipedia's Public Holidays in Iceland page and cross-checked by date calculation (Easter-based moveable dates); all dates and names match exactly and required no changes. The ETIAS/visa_requirement field was updated: EES is now fully operational (since 10 Apr 2026), while ETIAS still has no officially confirmed launch date as of late September 2026 — 2027 remains an unofficial working expectation pending an eu-LISA board decision, so this should be rechecked once a new date is formally announced. business_ready_score remains unconfirmed/null due to lack of a verifiable published Iceland score on the World Bank B-READY site; flagged for a future recheck. Fields not explicitly re-verified in this pass (already carrying recent mid/late-2026 verified dates and well-sourced, e.g. alcohol sales hours, smoking/vaping rules, drone rules, medication import rules, cash declaration limit) were left as-is per instructions.) RS (Verified all fields against 2026 primary/official sources where available. VAT (20%/10%), corporate tax (15% flat), minimum wage (RSD 371 net/hour from 1 Jan 2026, +10.1%), retirement age (men 65 / women 64 in 2026), GDP per capita (USD 15,262 for 2025, confirmed via live World Bank API), digital nomad visa (still none, entrepreneur/temporary-residence route unchanged) and holidays_2026_sample (all 11 entries cross-checked exactly against the Nager.Date API and paragraf.rs/b92.net Serbian holiday calendars, including Statehood Day shifting to Mon 16-Tue 17 Feb because 15 Feb 2026 falls on a Sunday) were all reconfirmed unchanged and re-dated 2026-09-29. lgbtq_legal_status was refined: a newer draft same-sex civil union bill (Sep 2024, Green-Left Front) is still pending, superseding the previous note that only cited a 2021 stalled draft; core legal status (no marriage/union recognition, 2006 constitutional man-woman definition) is unchanged. Two items could not be conclusively verified and are flagged rather than guessed: business_ready_score (World Bank B-READY 2025 report has been released covering ~170 economies, but no Serbia-specific score/ranking could be located on worldbank.org as of this check - left as-is) and visa_requirement_common_passports (left unchanged; a secondary source referenced a Serbian 'Digital Travel Authorization' introduced April 2025, but this could not be corroborated on Serbia's official MFA site, so it was not added). No crypto/digital-assets field exists in the current schema, so the Law on Digital Assets framework has nothing to update against.) KZ (Verified all variableFields for Kazakhstan; the most significant fix was holidays_2026_sample, which was missing two gazetted 2026 non-working holidays (7 Jan Orthodox Christmas and 27 May Kurban Ait, the latter confirmed by the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Kazakhstan/DUMK calendar) and had a truncated holiday name, all now corrected — note Kazakhstan's official calendar does not include Oraza Ait (Eid al-Fitr) as a public holiday, only Kurban Ait. VAT (16%/5%, 10,000 MCI threshold), corporate tax (20% standard, 25% banks/gambling from 2026), minimum wage (KZT 85,000, frozen), the Neo Nomad digital-nomad visa (confirmed still operational, not absent as sometimes reported), and the LGBT-propaganda law (signed 30 Dec 2025) were all corroborated via Big Four/government-adjacent sources and refreshed; corporate_tax notes were expanded to cover SEZ/AIFC and sector-specific rates. The visa-free passport count was refined from '~80' to '~87' per an MFA-table summary, but flagged for a full official cross-check since only a secondary source was available. Business_ready_score, gdp_per_capita, retirement_age, and the pending alcohol-retail-ban status could not be re-confirmed with a fresher 2026-dated primary source this pass and were left unchanged; no crypto/digital-asset regulatory field exists in this country's current dataset, so none was added.) BH (VAT (10%), corporate tax framework (0% general / 46% oil-gas / 15% DMTT for large MNEs from FY2025), minimum wage (no private-sector statutory floor; BHD 300 public-sector floor for nationals), visa policy (eVisa/GCC visa-free), and the 'no confirmed digital nomad visa' finding were all re-confirmed current via PwC/EY/KPMG, Wikipedia, and travel-industry sources and re-dated 2026-09-29; no substantive changes needed, only notes clarified. LGBTQ legal status was refined to more accurately reflect that morality/indecency laws are regularly (not just occasionally) used to target LGBTQ+ people, per Wikipedia's aggregation of U.S. State Department reporting. In holidays_2026_sample, the Dec 17 entry was mislabeled 'National Day' (duplicate of Dec 16) and has been corrected to 'عيد الجلوس' (Accession Day of the King), per Bahrain's PMO circular. Note: evisa.gov.bh blocked direct automated access, so that field relies on strong secondary corroboration rather than a fresh primary fetch; no 'crypto regulatory status' field exists in the current schema (CBB's Crypto-Asset Module / Volume 6 remains the operative framework, but there is nothing to update since no such field is present).) GE (Corrected holidays_2026_sample: it was missing 'Day of Family Purity and Respect for Parents' (17 May), which the government made an official annual public holiday by resolution in 2024 as a counterpart to the anti-LGBT 'family values' law — confirmed via Office Holidays, PB Services, and Calendarific, bringing Georgia's 2026 total to 18 official holidays. Re-verified VAT (18% standard, unchanged), corporate income tax (Estonian model, 15% on distribution / 20% for banks-financial institutions, unchanged), and minimum wage (GEL 20 private / GEL 115 public, unrevised since 1999) via PwC and other 2026 sources — all confirmed accurate, no change needed. Confirmed Georgia's inbound visa-free regime for EU/UK/US and 94+ other nationalities (up to 365 days) is unchanged for 2026; a 2025 tightening only affects ~16-17 specific nationalities (e.g. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Syria) who must now hold a Gulf-state visa/residence permit valid for at least one year — this doesn't affect 'common passport' holders, so left as-is. LGBTQ legal status was cross-checked against Wikipedia, HRW, and Outright International and found still accurate as stated (decriminalized 2000; marriage/civil unions/adoption/gender-affirming care banned; Sept 2024 'Family Values' law restrictions in force; no further material legal change found through 2026, though civil-society reporting notes continued deterioration/Pride at risk). Digital nomad visa ('Remotely from Georgia') confirmed still active with the same terms; verified date refreshed. Could not independently re-confirm via live source fetch: the exact 'mandatory since 1 Jan 2026' travel-insurance claim (geoconsul.gov.ge page was JS-rendered/inaccessible to fetch) and the current tourist_tax non-enactment beyond a 2023-dated source — both are left unchanged as no contradicting evidence was found, but flagged for a follow-up direct-source check.) AM (Confirmed VAT (20% standard, no reduced rate) and corporate tax (18%) unchanged via PwC Tax Summaries. Corrected minimum_wage: it has actually been AMD 75,000/month since January 1, 2023 (Law HO-501-N), not 'since January 2025' as previously stated, and the hourly equivalent is AMD 450 (not 500); the proposed AMD 85,000 raise was confirmed still not enacted and excluded from the 2026 budget per Armenian press (aravot.am, arka.am). Updated digital_nomad_visa and visa_requirement_common_passports with refreshed verification (both remain substantively accurate - no dedicated nomad visa exists; MFA visa-free/residence-permit-exemption rules confirmed current). Revised lgbtq_legal_status: ILGA-Europe's 2026 Rainbow Map and Pink Armenia's 2025 report show Armenia has NO formal legal gender recognition mechanism at all (contradicting the prior claim that gender markers could be changed 'after surgery'), and the anti-discrimination draft law still excludes SOGI as of 2026. Flagged for human review: holidays_2026_sample exactly matches the Nager.Date API output (acceptable corroborating source per instructions) so was left unchanged, but two discrepancies were found against the Armenian Labor Code's official 13-holiday list (per Wikipedia's summary, not a primary source): Nager.Date/the current field omit January 27 (Memorial Day for fallen defenders) and include an extra January 5 entry plus an April 5 entry mislabeled with the local name \"Ամանոր\" (New Year) when it is actually Easter Sunday (\"Զատիկ\") - not corrected here since no primary government calendar could be directly accessed to confirm the authoritative 2026 list. business_ready_score remains null - no accessible primary source publishes Armenia's specific B-READY 2025 composite score. No dedicated 'crypto' field exists in this dataset to update. All other fields (tipping, business hours, culture/etiquette notes, retirement age, parental leave, banking hours, customs/medication/cash-declaration rules, smoking/drone rules, tourist tax, GDP per capita, etc.) were reviewed and left unchanged as they remain well-sourced and recently verified (within the last ~2 months) or are inherently qualitative/non-government-sourced by nature.) AZ (Confirmed unchanged: standard VAT (18%), corporate profit tax (20%), and minimum wage (400 AZN/month for 2026), all refreshed with 2026-09-29 verification against PwC and Azertag. Corrected the e-Visa service fee on evisa.gov.az, which now shows USD 20 state fee + USD 9 service fee (USD 29 total), up from the previously recorded USD 3 service fee - confirmed via two independent reads of the official portal. Refreshed the digital nomad visa entry (still not operational; now reportedly targeted for 2027-2028 under a 2026-2030 tourism program) and the LGBTQ legal-status entry (unchanged legal facts, added corroboration of a December 2025 HRW-documented raid and the 2024 ECtHR torture/discrimination ruling). The holidays_2026_sample list was cross-checked in full against Azerbaijan's official 2026 production calendar (Cabinet of Ministers Decision, reported via APA and News.az) and matches exactly - left unchanged. Flagged, not changed: retirement_age's claim of women reaching parity with men on 1 July 2026 could not be confirmed against the primary law text (dost.gov.az), which still shows the original transition ending 1 July 2027 - the underlying ambiguity was already noted in the existing field and remains unresolved. No crypto-regulation field exists in this dataset to update, though note for future reference that Azerbaijan is currently advancing a new virtual-assets/crypto licensing law (targeted for passage by end of 2026) that is not yet in force.) UZ (Verified Uzbekistan's highest-risk fields against current sources: VAT (12% standard / voluntary 6% from June 2026 / IT Park exemption to 2028) and corporate tax (15% standard, 20% for select sectors) are confirmed unchanged. Minimum wage was updated from UZS 1,271,000 to UZS 1,360,000/month, effective 1 September 2026 per Presidential Decree PF-115 (23 June 2026) — the old figure is now stale given today's date. The full 2026 holidays_2026_sample list was cross-checked date-by-date against official decree-based reporting (Ramazon Hayit 20 March, Qurbon Hayit 27 May, New Year/Independence Day/Constitution Day shifts) and matches exactly, so it was left unchanged. Retirement age, LGBTQ legal status (Article 120 still in force, no decriminalization), the US/EU-led visa-free expansion, absence of a dedicated digital nomad visa, and the B-READY null-score rationale were all reconfirmed as accurate, with minor note refinements and refreshed verification dates. Due to a session web-search quota limit, the remaining cultural/etiquette fields (tipping, business card etiquette, gift-giving, dress code, negotiation style, religion composition, etc.) and several travel-logistics fields already carrying July-September 2026 verification dates (tourist tax, medication import, cash declaration, smoking/vaping, drones) were not independently re-searched this pass and are left as-is; no red flags were found for them in the sources consulted for adjacent fields.) KH (Re-verified all variableFields for Cambodia; core figures check out against current sources. VAT (10% standard, 0% exports, temporary 4% effective rate on gasoline/diesel via state VAT absorption from 20 Mar 2026), CIT (20% standard), the 2026 garment/textile/footwear minimum wage ($210/mo, $208 probation, Prakas 214/25 eff. 1 Jan 2026), e-Visa fee (~$36) and VOA (~$30), and the holidays_2026_sample list all matched official/reputable sources (Andersen's summary of Sub-Decree No. 167 confirms the same 21 dates and 22 holiday-days) with no discrepancies, so those were left unchanged since their JSON structure has no 'verified' key to refresh without altering shape. tourist_tax (2% accommodation tax, Prakas 173) and digital_nomad_visa (still none, Ordinary/E-class visa used instead) were reconfirmed and their 'verified' dates bumped to 2026-09-29. lgbtq_legal_status remains accurate as of Sept 2026: same-sex marriage still not enacted despite a Feb 2026 Human Rights Committee statement of support (no field update since no 'verified' key exists). business_ready_score correctly remains null (no numeric World Bank B-READY overall score found). Not independently re-checked this pass (left as-is, already dated 2026-07/08/09 with primary sub-decree/customs sources): medication_import_rules, cash_declaration_limit, smoking_vaping_rules, drone_rules, retirement_age, parental_leave_policy. Note: Cambodia's crypto framework (NBC Prakas B7-024-735, licensed entities/banks only for cryptoasset services, unbacked crypto exposure still banned) is not a tracked field in this dataset, so no update was made there.) LA (Confirmed VAT remains 10% (reinstated 2024 after a 2022-2024 dip to 7%, no further change through 2026) and updated corporate_tax notes to reflect the Income Tax Law that took effect 1 July 2026 (now in force): LSX-listed rate is now 10%/10 years (was 13%/4 years), alcohol producers raised to 22%, and new casino (30%) and multinational-group minimum top-up (15%) rates were added; the 20% standard rate and other special rates were unchanged. Minimum wage stays at LAK 2,500,000/month with no confirmed 2026 increase yet -- a tripartite review (proposals LAK 2.8M-4.1M) was pending Prime Minister's Office approval as of the latest available reporting (March 2026); flagged for re-check since a decision was promised 'within 2026'. holidays_2026_sample cross-checked against officeholidays.com and matches exactly (12 entries, dates/names identical); Nager.Date does not list Laos, so it could not be used for corroboration. Visa and LGBTQ-status entries were reconfirmed as accurate with refreshed sources/dates; lower-priority cultural/logistics fields (tipping, business hours, road rules, retirement age, parental leave, etc.) were spot-checked for plausibility but not independently re-verified this pass and were left unchanged.)\n\n[2026-09-30] Verification-only mode batch (queue empty; rotation doubled to 16 countries per spec section 5): AT, RO, ID, BE, HR, JO, VN, BG, AR, CN, GB, RU, PE, NZ, CZ, CA. Selected via a freshness-ranking script cross-referenced against loop-status.json (excluding the prior day's 16-country batch: TD,GN,GM,SL,LR,TG,IS,RS,KZ,BH,GE,AM,AZ,UZ,KH,LA) and expansion-queue.json's completed_batches/verification log. All variable (non-structural) fields per country checked via parallel research subagents (~22 fields/country average); 65 fields explicitly updated with new source citations (notable: AT/RO/BE/HR/JO/VN/BG/AR/RU/PE/NZ/CZ/CA gained a new crypto_regulatory_status field; RO/HR/BG gained a new paid_vacation_days field; BE's VAT entry corrected - only pesticides/accommodation rate changes took effect 2026-03-01, not the previously-assumed cultural/sports/takeaway changes; RU's holidays_2026_sample corrected to remove a 2025-scoped bridge day erroneously included in the 2026 array, with context preserved as a note; NZ's and CZ's holidays_2026_sample entries were checked against the initial rotation-flag concerns and found already correct, no change needed). A further 257 other variable fields across these 16 countries were reconfirmed as unchanged during this pass and had their verified date refreshed to 2026-09-30. No structural/reference fields were modified. Full per-field detail in reports/merge_report.json (gitignored). Verification-only rotation batch (2026-10-01, loop A, expansion-queue empty so rotation doubled to 16 countries): PW, MC, AE, SE, LU, NO, OM, MY, TR, SK, PL, EG, NL, MT, ES, DE re-verified across ~30-38 variable fields each via web search against primary/official sources where available; corrections applied where sources diverged (notably TR customs duty-free allowance, AE Mawlid al-Nabi date, MC corporate-tax exemption schedule, EG visa fee updates, PL lgbtq_legal_status veto-override outcome). Previously-missing standard fields (holidays_2027, paid_vacation_days, crypto_regulatory_status) backfilled for SE, NO, OM, MY, TR, SK, EG, NL, MT, ES where a reliable source was found; left null+flagged otherwise. Several fields left unrefreshed due to per-session WebSearch quota exhaustion (noted per-country in reports/loopA-2026-10-01/). Verification-only rotation batch (2026-10-05, loop A, expansion-queue empty so rotation doubled to 16 countries): PW, PL, EG, SK, LU, MT, DE, FR, IN, SG, TW, HK, ES, PT, CH, IS re-verified across ~25-38 variable fields each via web search against primary/official sources where available. Notable corrections applied: MT road_rules.bac corrected from stale 0.08% to the current 0.05%/0.02% limits and its customs duty-free allowance fixed to include the omitted 16L beer allowance; PL crypto_regulatory_status updated to reflect the Crypto-Asset Market Act's veto-override failure (4 Sep 2026), leaving Poland the only EU state without an operational domestic MiCA/CASP regime; IN customs_duty_free_allowance updated for the 2 Feb 2026 Baggage Rules overhaul (tourist cash allowance INR 15,000->25,000, resident/NRI INR 50,000->75,000); FR customs_duty_free_allowance corrected (under-15 allowance EUR 175->150) and gdp_per_capita refreshed to the 2025 World Bank figure; SG gdp_per_capita and parental_leave_policy (Shared Parental Leave now 10 weeks, effective for births from 1 Apr 2026) updated; ES and ME/SK/CH source_url corrections (ES minimum_wage and lgbtq_legal_status had mismatched BOE URLs; SK and CH internet_connectivity figures refreshed to current period); CH main_religion and business_dress_code corrected (stale 2023 FSO figures and an inaccurate 'conservative/formal' characterization); DE tourist_tax note corrected re: Berlin's abolished business-travel exemption (1 Apr 2024). LU and IS each had two previously-missing standard fields (paid_vacation_days, crypto_regulatory_status) added using an existing country's exact field shape as template, per explicit authorization - no other schema changes were made anywhere in this batch. FLAG: the DE subagent found no primary-source evidence for a '4% Defense Special Corporate Tax surtax' referenced in this run's task framing (checked Deloitte/PwC/German tax press for FY2026); Germany's corporate_tax field (29.9% combined rate) was left unchanged and the surtax was not added, pending clarification of that claim's origin. A further ~15-30 other variable fields per country were reconfirmed unchanged and had their verified date refreshed to 2026-10-05, or had a 'verified' key added for the first time where a source_url already existed but no prior verification date had been recorded. No structural/reference fields were modified. Full per-field detail in reports/loopA-2026-10-05/ (gitignored). Queue remained empty throughout (0 of 195 countries pending) - full country coverage complete, operating in verification-only mode.","verification_holidays":{"gov_sources":{"JP":{"url":"https://www8.cao.go.jp/chosei/shukujitsu/syukujitsu.csv","verified":"2026-09-14","count":18,"scope":"内閣府公式CSV(国民の祝日・休日)"},"US":{"url":"https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/federal-holidays/","verified":"2026-07-14","count":11,"scope":"Federal holidays only, per 5 U.S.C. 6103, per U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).","years":["2026","2027"]},"DE":{"url":"https://www.bmi.bund.de/DE/themen/verfassung/staatliche-symbole/nationale-feiertage/nationale-feiertage-artikel.html","verified":"2026-07-14","count":9,"scope":"Only German Unity Day (Oct 3) is federal law nationwide; other 8 uniform via Länder Sonn-/Feiertagsgesetze per BMI. Moveable dates cross-verified against gov.uk and service-public.gouv.fr official calendars for the same Western Easter-cycle dates. All 16 Länder add further regional holidays not included here.","years":["2026","2027"]},"FR":{"url":"https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2405","verified":"2026-07-14","count":11,"scope":"Mainland France legal holidays. Alsace-Moselle adds Good Friday and 26 Dec; overseas departments add local commemoration date; not included.","years":["2026","2027"]},"GB":{"url":"https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays","verified":"2026-07-14","count":8,"scope":"England and Wales bank holidays only. Scotland and Northern Ireland differ.","years":["2026","2027"]},"IN":{"url":"https://nests.tribal.gov.in/WriteReadData/RTF1984/1768984993.pdf","verified":"2026-09-01","count":14,"scope":"14 mandatory gazetted holidays for Central Government offices per DoPT OM F.No.12/2/2023-JCA dated 3 July 2025. Delhi adds 3 more; other states substitute from a 12-item optional list, not included. Bakrid date revised 27→28 May 2026 per PIB PRID 2264022.","years":["2026"]},"BR":{"url":"https://www.gov.br/gestao/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/2025/dezembro/confira-o-calendario-oficial-de-feriados-nacionais-e-pontos-facultativos-em-2026","verified":"2026-07-14","count":10,"scope":"National holidays only per Portaria MGI Nº 11.460 (29/12/2025). Pontos facultativos excluded (discretionary).","years":["2026"]},"AU":{"url":"https://www.fairwork.gov.au/employment-conditions/public-holidays/2026-public-holidays","verified":"2026-07-14","count":7,"scope":"Australia has no single national holiday list; each of 8 states/territories legislates its own. Reflects 7 holidays common by name to all jurisdictions; exact observed dates can differ by jurisdiction.","years":["2026","2027"]},"SG":{"url":"https://www.mom.gov.sg/newsroom/press-releases/2025/0616-public-holidays-for-2026","verified":"2026-07-14","count":11,"scope":"11 gazetted public holidays under the Employment Act, per Ministry of Manpower (MOM). 2027 per MOM press release 18 June 2026.","years":["2026","2027"]},"AE":{"url":"https://uaelegislation.gov.ae/en/legislations/2595","verified":"2026-07-14","count":13,"scope":"Federal UAE holidays under Cabinet Resolution No. 27 of 2024, dates confirmed via MOHRE circulars. Mawlid date remains subject to final moon-sighting confirmation per source's own caveat.","years":["2026"]},"KR":{"url":"https://www.law.go.kr/LSW/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=234501","verified":"2026-07-14","count":21,"scope":"관공서의 공휴일에 관한 규정 (Presidential Decree, 인사혁신처), amended effective 11 May 2026. Lunar/substitute dates cross-referenced against KASA (Korea AeroSpace Administration) official 월력요항 almanac for 2026/2027. Memorial Day has no substitute-holiday provision.","years":["2026","2027"]},"CN":{"url":"国办发明电〔2025〕7号《国务院办公厅关于2026年部分节假日安排的通知》(4 Nov 2025), mirrored at beijing.gov.cn","verified":"2026-09-01","count":33,"scope":"Actual holiday days per State Council Notice; excludes the compensatory workdays (weekend-shifted) the same notice also specifies. 2027 notice not yet issued.","years":["2026"]},"TW":{"url":"中華民國115年政府行政機關辦公日曆表 (DGPA), mirrored by Kaohsiung City Government","verified":"2026-07-14","count":22,"scope":"DGPA has approved the 2027 calendar but only scanned/image PDFs were accessible, so 2027 left null rather than guessed.","years":["2026"]},"HK":{"url":"https://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/holiday/2026.htm ; https://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/holiday/2027.htm","verified":"2026-07-14","count":17,"scope":"GovHK gazetted General Holidays lists. 2027 list gazetted 15 May 2026.","years":["2026","2027"]},"TH":{"url":"Bank of Thailand Notification No. 31/2568 (bot.or.th), incorporating Cabinet Resolution-approved holiday schedule","verified":"2026-07-14","count":19,"scope":"thaigov.go.th/soc.go.th were JS-rendered and unreadable; BOT's officially gazetted notification used instead.","years":["2026"]},"VN":{"url":"https://xaydungchinhsach.chinhphu.vn (Cổng TTĐT Chính phủ), Bộ Nội vụ Thông báo 9441/TB-BNV","verified":"2026-07-14","count":13,"scope":"Điều 112 Bộ luật Lao động 2019 categories per Ministry of Home Affairs schedule for 2026.","years":["2026"]},"ID":{"url":"https://setneg.go.id (Kementerian Sekretariat Negara RI), SKB 3 Menteri Nomor 1497/2025, 2/2025, 5/2025","verified":"2026-07-14","count":17,"scope":"17 'Hari Libur Nasional' only; 8 separate 'Cuti Bersama' collective-leave days excluded (administrative, not statutory holidays).","years":["2026"]},"MY":{"url":"Jadual Hari Kelepasan Am Persekutuan 2026, Bahagian Kabinet, Jabatan Perdana Menteri (kabinet.gov.my)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":15,"scope":"Federal ('P') public holidays only; excludes state-only ('N') holidays. New Year's Day is not a federal holiday in Malaysia.","years":["2026"]},"PH":{"url":"Proclamation No. 1006 s.2025; Proclamation No. 1189 s.2026; Proclamation No. 1264 (officialgazette.gov.ph / pco.gov.ph)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":20,"scope":"Base 10 regular + 8 special non-working days per Proc. 1006; Eid dates fixed by later proclamations once lunar dates confirmed. EDSA Anniversary (25 Feb) declared Special Working Day, excluded.","years":["2026"]},"MX":{"url":"https://www.profedet.gob.mx/micrositio/index.php/dias-de-descanso (PROFEDET/STPS, Art. 74 LFT); SRE embassy 2026 official calendar","verified":"2026-07-14","count":7,"scope":"7 statutory 'días de descanso obligatorio' under Art. 74 LFT (no 6-yearly transition holiday in 2026).","years":["2026"]},"CA":{"url":"https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/public-holidays.html","verified":"2026-07-14","count":13,"scope":"Per Canada Revenue Agency (Government of Canada), transcribed exactly incl. its own Quebec-scope annotations.","years":["2026"]},"IT":{"url":"Gazzetta Ufficiale, Legge 8 ottobre 2025 n.151; Legge 27 maggio 1949 n.260 (as amended); MAE consular confirmation","verified":"2026-07-14","count":12,"scope":"Nationwide fixed holidays per Legge 260/1949 as amended, plus new San Francesco d'Assisi holiday (Legge 151/2025). Municipalities add one local patron-saint holiday, not included.","years":["2026"]},"ES":{"url":"BOE, Resolución de 17 de octubre de 2025 (Dirección General de Trabajo, Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":8,"scope":"8 holidays common to all Autonomous Communities plus Ceuta/Melilla. Each region adds further holidays; municipalities add up to 2 local holidays.","years":["2026"]},"PT":{"url":"Código do Trabalho Art. 234.º, pgdlisboa.pt (Procuradoria-Geral Distrital de Lisboa official legal database)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":13,"scope":"Mandatory national holidays (feriados obrigatórios). Carnival Tuesday is optional/facultative, excluded. Municipalities add one local patron-saint holiday.","years":["2026"]},"NL":{"url":"p-direkt.nl (Rijksoverheid, Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":11,"scope":"Bevrijdingsdag is a full public holiday for the general public only once every 5 years (lustrum); paid day off for civil servants annually.","years":["2026"]},"BE":{"url":"belgium.be (federal portal); Conseil des ministres release confirming Ascension = 14 May 2026","verified":"2026-07-14","count":10,"scope":"10 nationwide legal public holidays per federal portal Belgium.be.","years":["2026"]},"CH":{"url":"epa.admin.ch (Eidgenössisches Personalamt EPA), official 2026 holidays PDF","verified":"2026-07-14","count":9,"scope":"Only 1 August is federally mandated nationwide; other 8 reflect the federal administration's own observed pattern. Cantons set their own additional statutory holidays and some diverge (e.g. Geneva, Ticino, Valais).","years":["2026"]},"AT":{"url":"arbeitsinspektion.gv.at (Austrian Federal Ministry labour authority)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":13,"scope":"13 nationwide statutory holidays under the Arbeitsruhegesetz.","years":["2026"]},"SE":{"url":"riksdagen.se, Lag 1989:253 om allmänna helgdagar (Sveriges riksdag)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":13,"scope":"Whit Monday abolished 2005 (replaced by National Day). Midsummer/All Saints defined by law as the Saturday within a fixed date window rather than a fixed calendar date.","years":["2026"]},"NO":{"url":"internal consistency check (Easter-cycle arithmetic against 2026 Western Easter date)","verified":"2026-09-01","count":12,"scope":"12 fixed + moveable Norwegian statutory holidays cross-checked arithmetically against 2026 Easter Sunday (5 April 2026); no holidays_2027 field present.","years":["2026"]},"DK":{"url":"borger.dk (Denmark's official citizen portal)","verified":"2026-09-01","count":10,"scope":"Store Bededag abolished from 2024. Source explicitly states 1 May, 5 June, 24 Dec, 31 Dec are NOT official holidays in Denmark.","years":["2026"]},"PL":{"url":"zielonalinia.gov.pl (Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":14,"scope":"14 statutory 'dni wolne od pracy' for 2026; 4 fall on Sunday, not separately compensated under the Labour Code.","years":["2026"]},"CZ":{"url":"mpsv.gov.cz (Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs), zákon č. 245/2000 Sb.","verified":"2026-07-14","count":14,"scope":"14 calendar-distinct-day entries (Jan 1 carries two legal names). Good Friday/Easter Monday cross-verified against official PL/ZA sources.","years":["2026"]},"IE":{"url":"workplacerelations.ie (Workplace Relations Commission)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":10,"scope":"10 statutory public holidays under the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 as amended. Good Friday is NOT a statutory public holiday in Ireland.","years":["2026"]},"IL":{"url":"gov.il, Israel Civil Service Commission (נציבות שירות המדינה), 2026 circular","verified":"2026-07-14","count":9,"scope":"Days marked 'no work' in the Civil Service Commission's official 2026 work calendar. Memorial Day (Yom HaZikaron) excluded as not a day off.","years":["2026"]},"EG":{"url":"presidency.eg, 'National Holidays 2026' official page","verified":"2026-07-14","count":15,"scope":"Direct transcription incl. source's own weekday-adjustments (e.g. Police Day observed Thu 29 Jan; Labor Day observed Thu 7 May), per Egypt's post-2020 practice of shifting some holidays to Thursdays.","years":["2026"]},"ZA":{"url":"gov.za, 'Public Holidays' official page, per Public Holidays Act No 36 of 1994","verified":"2026-07-14","count":13,"scope":"Both 2026 and 2027 tables published on the same official page. Sunday-observed-Monday substitutions noted exactly as source states.","years":["2026","2027"]},"KE":{"url":"Kenya Law (new.kenyalaw.org), Public Holidays Act Cap 110, First Schedule; Ministry of Interior gazette notices","verified":"2026-07-14","count":12,"scope":"Fixed-date holidays from Cap 110 First Schedule Part I; Idd dates from Ministry of Interior gazette notices. Diwali excluded (no 2026 gazette date located).","years":["2026"]},"AR":{"url":"argentina.gob.ar/jefatura/feriados-nacionales-2026 (official JSON feed, Ley 27.399)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":16,"scope":"16 national holidays (feriado inamovible + already-resolved feriado trasladable categories). Excludes optional 'día no laborable' and tourism bridge days.","years":["2026"]},"CO":{"url":"sedeelectronica.minhacienda.gov.co (Ministerio de Hacienda y Crédito Público, official calendar tool)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":19,"scope":"19 official holidays for 2026 (Ley Emiliani Monday-shifted dates resolved). Includes new Chiquinquirá holiday added by Ley 2578 de 2026.","years":["2026"]},"PE":{"url":"gob.pe/feriados (Plataforma del Estado Peruano)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":15,"scope":"Only entries labeled 'Feriado nacional' (15 dates). Two 'Día no laborable' dates (2 Jan, 27 Jul) excluded as source distinguishes them from feriado nacional.","years":["2026"]},"NZ":{"url":"govt.nz, 'Public holidays and anniversary dates'","verified":"2026-07-14","count":11,"scope":"National public holidays only; regional anniversary days vary by council and excluded. Dates given are the day employees receive off (post-Mondayisation).","years":["2026","2027"]},"RU":{"url":"publication.pravo.gov.ru, Постановление Правительства РФ №1466 от 24.09.2025","verified":"2026-07-14","count":15,"scope":"Base dates per Labour Code Art. 112 (standing law); 2026 transfer resolution read directly from official PDF. No 2027 transfer resolution issued yet.","years":["2026"]},"PK":{"url":"cabinet.gov.pk, Cabinet Division Circular F.No.10-1/2025-Min-II dated 9 January 2026, 'Public and Optional Holidays for the Year 2026'","verified":"2026-07-14","count":17,"scope":"OCR-transcribed from official scanned PDF, cross-read twice. Islamic dates marked '*' by the Cabinet Division as anticipated/moon-sighting-subject, reproduced exactly as published. Optional/denominational holidays excluded.","years":["2026"]},"BD":{"url":"bvc.portal.gov.bd (Bangladesh National Portal), Ministry of Public Administration Gazette Notification Ref. ০৫.০০.০০০০.১৭৪.১১.০০৭.১৯-১৯৭ dated 9 Nov 2025","verified":"2026-07-14","count":27,"scope":"Combines 'সাধারণ ছুটি' General Holidays (14) and 'নির্বাহী আদেশে সরকারি ছুটি' Executive-Order Holidays (7). OCR-transcribed from scanned gazette; two entries (Chaitra Sankranti name, Shab-e-Barat date) corroborated via Bangladesh Embassy Tokyo's official notice reproducing the same circular rather than the primary crop — flagged for future re-verification. Optional/communal holiday sections excluded.","years":["2026"]},"MA":{"url":"mmsp.gov.ma (Ministère de la Transition Numérique), Décret n° 2-77-169; habous.gov.ma communiqués","verified":"2026-07-14","count":15,"scope":"17 official holidays; Aïd Al Mawlid Ennabaoui (2 days, late Aug 2026) not yet officially announced, excluded rather than estimated.","years":["2026"]},"LK":{"url":"cbsl.gov.lk (Central Bank of Sri Lanka), official 2026 bank holidays calendar","verified":"2026-07-14","count":26,"scope":"All 26 dates marked 'P' (Public Holiday) in the source, derived from Government Gazette declarations under the Holidays Act.","years":["2026"]},"HU":{"url":"njt.jog.gov.hu (Nemzeti Jogszabálytár), Munka törvénykönyve 102.§; NGM decree 10/2025","verified":"2026-07-14","count":13,"scope":"11 munkaszüneti nap categories confirmed via official legal database, cross-checked against NGM Saturday-workday compensation decree for weekday placement.","years":["2026"]},"HR":{"url":"narodne-novine.nn.hr (Official Gazette), Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i neradnim danima (NN 110/2019)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":14,"scope":"13 named holidays (14 calendar days) read directly from the official gazette text.","years":["2026"]},"BG":{"url":"justice.government.bg (Ministry of Justice legal portal) + gli.government.bg (General Labour Inspectorate PDF), Кодекс на труда Чл. 154","verified":"2026-07-14","count":15,"scope":"Base list confirmed via official-domain PDF (gli.government.bg). Easter dates follow the Bulgarian Orthodox Paschalion. A separate one-off Council of Ministers decision added 31 Dec 2025 and 2 Jan 2026 as non-standing additional non-working days (euro-changeover related), not included here.","years":["2026"]},"JO":{"url":"pm.gov.jo (official Prime Ministry circulars); mfa.gov.jo/content/public-holidays","verified":"2026-07-14","count":15,"scope":"Islamic holiday dates from individual official Prime Ministry circulars for 2026 (moon-sighting dependent, year by year); no 2027 circulars exist yet.","years":["2026"]},"SK":{"url":"vlada.gov.sk, Act No. 241/1993 Coll.","verified":"2026-07-14","count":16,"scope":"Combines štátne sviatky and dni pracovného pokoja per Act 241/1993. Per 2025 transitional amendment, 8 May and 15 Sept are NOT days of rest specifically in 2026.","years":["2026"]},"SI":{"url":"gov.si/en/topics/national-holidays/; gov.si embassy notice confirming Easter Monday 6 April 2026","verified":"2026-07-14","count":15,"scope":"Combines gov.si's 'National Holidays' (work-free) and 'Other work-free days' lists. Non-work-free commemorative days (Primož Trubar Day, Prekmurje/Primorska unification days, Sports Day, Sovereignty Day, Science Day, Rudolf Maister Day) excluded as not days off.","years":["2026"]},"LT":{"url":"ua.mfa.lt/konsuline-informacija (Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":14,"scope":"Easter dates apply the government-published formula (first Sunday/Monday after first full moon after vernal equinox), cross-checked against other EU states' official sources.","years":["2026"]},"LV":{"url":"likumi.lv/ta/id/72608 (Law 'Par svētku, atceres un atzīmējamām dienām'); vdi.gov.lv","verified":"2026-07-14","count":14,"scope":"Moveable Christian dates follow standard Western Easter computus, corroborated by other EU official sources. Mother's Day (2nd Sunday of May, a working-day observance) excluded as not a non-working holiday.","years":["2026"]},"EE":{"url":"riigikantselei.ee; riigiteataja.ee (Pühade ja tähtpäevade seadus); kyiv.mfa.ee embassy notice","verified":"2026-07-14","count":12,"scope":"12 riigipühad per the Holidays and Special Days Act.","years":["2026"]},"LU":{"url":"itm.public.lu/fr/conditions-travail/conges/jours-feries.html (Inspection du Travail et des Mines)","verified":"2026-07-14","count":11,"scope":"Official multi-year table covering 2025–2030; both 2026 and 2027 transcribed directly.","years":["2026","2027"]},"MT":{"url":"gov.mt/en/About Malta/Pages/Public Holidays.aspx","verified":"2026-07-14","count":14,"scope":"Per the National Holidays and Other Public Holidays Act (Chapter 252).","years":["2026"]},"CY":{"url":"centralbank.cy, official 2026 Bank Holidays circular","verified":"2026-07-14","count":14,"scope":"Republic of Cyprus (government-controlled area) only. Central Bank circular corresponds to the national public holiday list; excludes the source's one bank-only extra closure day (Easter Tuesday) as it's not a national public holiday.","years":["2026"]},"QA":{"url":"https://qna.org.qa/en/news/news-details?id=amiri-diwan-announces-eid-al-fitr-holiday&date=15%2F03%2F2026","verified":"2026-07-15","count":14,"scope":"Qatar News Agency (state agency) verbatim transcriptions of Amiri Diwan announcements: National Sport Day (QNA 2026-02-08), Eid Al-Fitr Mar 17-23 (QNA 2026-03-15), Eid Al-Adha May 26-30 (QNA 2026-05-24). National Day Dec 18 fixed by gazetted Cabinet decision (The Peninsula 2025-05-19 reporting the Official Gazette); year-specific announcement typically issued each December. Amiri Diwan dates formally cover government entities; QCB sets bank dates separately.","years":[2026]},"SA":{"url":"https://www.hrsd.gov.sa/en/knowledge-centre/articles/322","verified":"2026-07-15","count":10,"scope":"Private/non-profit sector statutory holidays (Labour Law standard). Founding Day per Royal Order (SPA spa.gov.sa/2324647); Eid Al-Fitr per HRSD official announcement 2026-03-04 ('begins at end of working day Wed Mar 18, runs 4 days' — Mar 19-22; transcribed verbatim by Gulf Business and Argaam; NOTE: one outlet (Arabian Business) enumerated Mar 18-21, conflicting with the HRSD wording — Mar 19-22 follows the official text); Eid Al-Adha May 26-29 per HRSD/Supreme Court announcements (Hotelier ME 2026-05-20, Time Out Riyadh 2026-05-17 citing SPA); National Day Sep 23 fixed by HRSD rule (first day of Libra, Umm al-Qura). Government-sector Eid breaks are set separately and typically longer. SAMA bank-holiday page was unreachable (server error).","years":[2026]},"KW":{"url":"Central Bank of Kuwait (cbk.gov.kw) official closed-to-the-public announcements, cross-checked against KUNA (Kuwait News Agency, state agency) articles reporting CSC/Cabinet decisions directly, and Kuwait Times/Arab Times reporting of CSC circulars","verified":"2026-07-20","count":9,"scope":"8 of 9 dates confirmed via official-domain (cbk.gov.kw) closure notices and/or state-news-agency (KUNA) articles reporting the Civil Service Commission/Cabinet decisions directly. Isra & Mi raj corrected from 16 Jan to 18 Jan (CBK announcement). Prophet Birthday (Mawlid) remains an unconfirmed estimate, explicitly flagged as such -- no CSC/CBK announcement exists yet as it is 5+ weeks out from the verification date.","years":["2026"]},"OM":{"url":"omanobserver.om (Ministry of Information, quoting Council of Ministers/Ministry of Labour circulars); timesofoman.com and muscatdaily.com (ONA-attributed Eid announcements)","verified":"2026-07-20","count":16,"scope":"Full 2026 national/religious holiday list per Council of Ministers advance-announcement policy; Eid dates are post-moon-sighting confirmed, not estimates. Renaissance Day (23 Jul) omitted as apparently discontinued since 2020; New Year Day omitted as not part of the official gazetted list.","years":["2026"]}},"pending":{"FI":{"reason":"No .fi ministry page rendered a per-year 2026 dated holiday table (only the fixed Independence Day law, Finlex 388/1937, was directly read). Moveable Easter-cycle dates were cross-checked against other countries' official pages rather than a Finnish government source; researching agent itself flagged 'treat with slightly lower confidence.' Data left unchanged pending a more direct Finnish source.","tried_urls":["finlex.fi/en/legislation/1937/388","valtioneuvosto.fi"]},"GR":{"reason":"Ministry of Labour 'Αργίες' page and Ministry of Interior circulars are JS-rendered and could not be captured as static text. Two of twelve dates (Clean Monday, Whit Monday) were derived by the researching agent via arithmetic offset from an anchor date rather than read from a Greek government table — explicitly flagged 'CAUTION — lower confidence' and violates the no-calculation rule. Data left unchanged.","tried_urls":["ypergasias.gov.gr/ergasiakes-scheseis/chronika-oria/argies/"]},"TR":{"reason":"Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı's official religious-calendar page (vakithesaplama.diyanet.gov.tr) is JS-rendered and could not be captured as static text; Ramazan/Kurban Bayramı dates were confirmed only via convergence of secondary reporting rather than direct primary-source reading. Researching agent flagged 'CAUTION — moderate confidence.' Data left unchanged.","tried_urls":["vakithesaplama.diyanet.gov.tr/dinigunler.php?yil=2026","mevzuat.gov.tr"]},"NG":{"reason":"Federal Ministry of Interior issues per-occasion circulars rather than one annual list; as of the research date (14 Jul 2026) Independence Day, Eid-el-Mawlid, and Christmas/Boxing Day for 2026 had not yet been gazetted. The researching agent's own transcription is explicitly incomplete ('omitted rather than estimated'). Data left unchanged rather than overwritten with a partial list.","tried_urls":["interior.gov.ng/category/public-holiday/"]},"CL":{"reason":"gob.cl's official 'Feriados 2026' page was blocked by an active Cloudflare challenge and could not be read. The researching agent explicitly labeled its output 'PARTIAL LIST' — several known statutory holidays (Naval Glories Day, Assumption, Day of Evangelical and Protestant Churches, All Saints' Day, Immaculate Conception, Día de los Pueblos Indígenas) were not independently confirmed and are missing. Data left unchanged rather than overwritten with a partial list.","tried_urls":["gob.cl (Cloudflare-blocked)","dt.gob.cl/portal/1628/w3-article-95017.html"]},"UA":{"reason":"Substantive finding, not a fetch failure: an official Verkhovna Rada Research Service document (research.rada.gov.ua) confirms that under Law No. 2136-IX Art. 6(6), the non-working-day provisions of Labour Code Art. 73 (Ukraine's statutory holiday list) do NOT apply while martial law remains in effect, and martial law has been continuous since February 2022 through the research date (14 Jul 2026). The Cabinet of Ministers also stopped issuing its annual working-day-transfer order per Law No. 3494-IX (2023). There is no confirmable, currently-enforced official holiday list to transcribe; publishing a pre-2022-style list would misrepresent the current legal status. Data left unchanged; recommend a dedicated review of how to represent this legal status on the site.","tried_urls":["zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/main/days2026","zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/322-08","research.rada.gov.ua/uploads/documents/34098.pdf","kmu.gov.ua"]},"RO":{"reason":"legislatie.just.ro (Portal Legislativ, Ministry of Justice) could not be fully rendered by the fetch tool. The 11 fixed-date holidays are well-established, but the moveable Orthodox Easter/Pentecost 2026 dates were corroborated via 'multiple independent Romanian legal/HR sources' rather than a directly-rendered official government page — this description does not confirm the secondary sources were themselves official/government domains, unlike other countries in this batch where an official-domain PDF fallback was reached. Data left unchanged pending re-verification with a confirmed official-domain source for the moveable dates.","tried_urls":["legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/127264"]}}}}}