Building MCP servers for a country that isn't in the dataset (Czech gov APIs)

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Abstract In December 2025, Anthropic donated the Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation. MCP is now a vendor-neutral standard - OpenAI, Block, and dozens of IDEs ship with it. The registry has ~300 servers. Most of them are for English-first ecosystems: GitHub, Slack, Linear, Notion. Nobody had written an MCP server for Czech government or business data. So I spent an evening doing it. Two servers live, published to npm and the official registry. This is what I learned about adapting MCP to a locale the tooling wasn't designed for. TL;DR.