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Nationcraft

Analyzing a nation and the best way to improve it via Yu-kai Chou's Nationcraft Framework.

Nationcraft·40 min

Peru's 18-variable Nationcraft profile on the eve of the June 7 runoff: why eight presidents in ten years…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·39 min

The Compressed-Trust Paradox: why Lawrence Wong's Economic Strategy Review is the live-fire stress test of the LKY Industrialization…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·34 min

Two decades of gas dividend built the political compact Bolivia now cannot reform. A Nationcraft V-vector reading of…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·32 min

Pakistan merged its Board of Investment into the army-anchored SIFC in May 2026. A Nationcraft 18-variable read of…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·52 min

Kazakhstan's 2026 Constitution reads as institutional reform; the V-vector says continuity. Five rejected packets and three that fit…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·37 min

Argentina's V14=8 + V15=8 endowment is trapped by V16=3 capital famine and V10=4 partisanship. Run Milei's reform packets…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·32 min

Nationcraft V-vector reading of the Marcos-Duterte impeachment crisis: why V1+V2+V10+V13 lock the Philippines into the Dynasty Trap, and…

Yu-kai Chou

Gamification Analysis·25 min

Eight Reformer Playbooks Venezuela’s Variables Reject — And the Three That Actually Fit Every time a Venezuelan transition…

Yu-kai Chou

Advanced Gamification·18 min

As more conversations about national design started landing in my world, I realized something that surprised even me:…

Yu-kai Chou