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Nationcraft

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

Nationcraft·23 min

Hungary's reformer supermajority just inherited the machine Orban built. The Nationcraft Two-Thirds Trap, and the three reform packets…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·27 min

A Nationcraft diagnosis of Malaysia's 18 variables and the Reformasi Coalition Trap: why the reformer must shield the…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·29 min

A Nationcraft diagnosis of Ecuador 2026: the Emergency Ratchet Trap, where strong authority hollows the institutions needed to…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·26 min

Algeria’s FLN won a July 2026 election barely a fifth of voters attended. A Nationcraft read of the…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·25 min

Niger seized its uranium and expelled the West, yet its leverage keeps falling. A Nationcraft read of the…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·38 min

Iraq holds the region's richest oil yet its weakest effective sovereignty. A Nationcraft V-vector diagnosis of the Rentier…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·37 min

The Startup-Nation Trap: why Israel's world-class capability rests on tribal (V10=2) not civic cohesion, and cannot build the…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·33 min

Chile elected a mano dura president while homicides fell three years running. The Mano Dura Mirage: a Nationcraft…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·26 min

Kenya's Concession Trap: a Nationcraft diagnosis of why a post-tribal Gen Z uprising keeps winning concessions yet never…

Yu-kai Chou