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Nationcraft

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

Nationcraft·30 min

Albania closes EU chapters while 250,000 fill Tirana's boulevard. The Departure Dividend explains how both scoreboards stayed green…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·26 min

The Honeymoon Ledger: Burnham's bounce changed the leader, and none of the UK's 18 variables. The October budget…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·29 min

A Nationcraft analysis of the Netherlands: the Second Dutch Disease, where administrative competence masks a decaying political layer.

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·31 min

The Fortress Economy Trap: Russia built a state that can absorb a siege and a system that cannot…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·27 min

Spain runs a 7-tier economy on a 5-tier political core. The Rented-Border Trap: why Ceuta 2026 is the…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·35 min

Sweden runs on the world's deepest trust reserves. The Trust Overdraft Trap is spending them faster than the…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·28 min

Rwanda executes the Singapore playbook without Singapore's endowments. The Star Pupil Trap: donor money and Congo's chaos finance…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·29 min

China can command factories, rail, and whole industries into existence. The Supply Reflex Trap explains why it cannot…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·39 min

Haiti set a December 13 vote while gangs hold 90% of the capital. The Ballot-First Trap: why ballots…

Yu-kai Chou