In the EU, a VAT identification number can be verified online at the EU's official VIES website. It confirms that the number is currently allocated and can provide the name or other identifying details of the entity to whom the identifier has been allocated.
A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next. Culture is symbolic communication.
In sociology, a community may refer to a locality inhabited by a group of humans of any size whose members use a common language, manners, law, culture and tradition or a social group sharing common characteristics or interests, sometimes regardless of their location. However, in ecology, a community does not only focus at human population.