Not a problem. Here are some cheat sheets:
- Adventures in the Czech Republic (British blogger who bought a farmhouse near Cesky Krumlov in 2005)
- CIA factbook (less scary than it sounds)
- Radio Prague (news feed that reports on EVERYTHING)
- American Friends of the CR (interest group with quick links to the basics)
- BBC 25-year retrospective of the Velvet Revolution
- What it LOOKS like (flickr)