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Nationcraft

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

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Georgia fired its entire traffic police and beat total corruption in under a decade. The Reformer's Paradox explains…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·27 min

The Leapfrog Mirage: SP-007 shows how Estonia turned a $2,200 post-Soviet baseline into the most digital state on…

Yu-kai Chou

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Italy just bought its fifth engineered majority in a century. The Governability Premium explains why bonus seats cannot…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·31 min

Kosovo ended 18 months of deadlock 13 minutes past the constitutional deadline. The Midnight Mandate: what the deal…

Yu-kai Chou

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India's Umpire Trap: at V10=1 tribalism, the Election Commission itself becomes the contested object. An 18-variable Nationcraft diagnosis.

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

Nationcraft·28 min

Iran engineered an economy to survive siege, and made siege permanent. The Resistance Economy Trap, read through all…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·31 min

Guatemala's Escape-Valve Trap: emigration and remittances vent the pressure that would force reform. 2026 is the first real…

Yu-kai Chou