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Nationcraft

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

Nationcraft·28 min

Finland is buying deterrence on credit drawn against the welfare model it defends. The 18 Nation Variables price…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·28 min

Pakistan takes the IMF–World Bank gavel in 2027 while still inside an IMF program — the Borrower's Gavel…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·30 min

Mozambique borrowed against its gas windfall before it arrived. An 18-variable Nationcraft read of the Pre-Spent Windfall Trap…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·27 min

Brazil's runoff is a referendum on a verdict: the Amnesty Ballot Trap, where V10=3 tribalism puts judicial accountability…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·31 min

One year after the Gen Z uprising, Madagascar's unelected transition passes IMF reviews while voters wait for 2027.…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·30 min

Malawi earns its dollars from green gold and loses them on the same clock. An 18-variable Nationcraft read…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·33 min

Five months without an invested government: Romania's Caretaker Equilibrium, the V-vector behind it, and the pact-machinery packets that…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·26 min

Article 220 locks DRC term limits forever — and that lock is now the argument for replacing the…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·25 min

Peru keeps electing the strong hand and keeps denying it a grip. The Iron-Fist Mandate Trap, read through…

Yu-kai Chou