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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

A Nationcraft analysis of Turkey in 2026: why the Strongman Discount traps a capable economy, and which reform…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·30 min

The Judicial Veto Trap: why Thailand's guardian courts and military keep unmaking elected governments, and which packets fit…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·28 min

Zambia aced the debt-restructuring exam creditors set and still can't keep the lights on: a Nationcraft 18-variable read…

Yu-kai Chou

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·29 min

France owns every asset of a top-tier state and a parliament too fragmented to use them. A Nationcraft…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·27 min

Serbia's Managed Exit Trap: why an election forced by 18 months of protest may hand power back to…

Yu-kai Chou