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Nationcraft

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

Nationcraft·32 min

Bangladesh's Charter Reset Trap: a V10=2 partisan vector recaptures every reform charter the uprising wins. A Nationcraft V-vector…

Yu-kai Chou

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Nepal's 2026 RSP landslide is the cleanest reform mandate in its history. The Nationcraft Clean-Slate Trap shows why…

Yu-kai Chou

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The Indispensable-Man Trap: V1=8 authority but V13=2 transparency means 43 years of personalist rule left resource-rich Cameroon hostage…

Yu-kai Chou

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The Strongman Reform Trap: V1=8 + V14=8 give Prabowo the LKY-style reformer surface, but V13=4 + V16=3 +…

Yu-kai Chou

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Why India's reform window narrows as Modi's electoral confidence rebuilds — The Mandate Trap, a Nationcraft 18-variable diagnosis.

Yu-kai Chou

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After 16 years of EU oversight, Greece exits the macroeconomic-imbalance list. The V-vector says the discipline window now…

Yu-kai Chou

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Colombia heads to a June 21 runoff. The Nationcraft Framework reads the Polarization Pendulum Trap before the next…

Yu-kai Chou

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

Yu-kai Chou

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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