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Nationcraft

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

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

Nationcraft·28 min

Israel completed its first full-term Knesset since 1988 by deferring every constitutional fight. The Ballot Backlog now lands…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·24 min

Ireland's record surplus rests on a tax base it does not control. The Windfall Trap, read through all…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·26 min

The Selective Opening Paradox: how Meiji Japan ran the century's fastest modernization on its weakest economic hand, and…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·27 min

New Zealand runs the OECD's cleanest institutions on its shortest political horizon. The Three-Year Horizon Trap explains the…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·31 min

Bolivia's $1.9B IMF program re-runs its own 1985 stabilization packet. The Second Dose Trap asks whether the cure…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·38 min

The Permanent Siege Trap: why the discipline that won Eritrea's independence now empties the nation, and which reform…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·34 min

Angola recovered over $5bn and opened 715 prosecutions. Its governance transparency score did not move. An 18-variable Nationcraft…

Yu-kai Chou