{
  "rubric_version": 1,
  "rubric": {
    "scale": "0-10 per component; 5 is globally neutral; scores map linearly to score units as z = (score - 5) / 2. Authored scores are editorial judgments informed by public data and the geostrategic literature (Zeihan et al.); they are deliberately shipped in this file so readers can audit or fork them.",
    "geo": "Geographic security: defensibility of borders, ocean moats vs open plains, strategic depth, exposure to great-power coercion.",
    "agri": "Agricultural potential: arable land per capita, water security, input-import dependence of the food system.",
    "ener": "Energy & resources: domestic energy production vs import dependence, resource endowments relevant to industry.",
    "trade": "Neighborhood & trade resilience: quality/stability of neighbors and market access if long-haul trade degrades; export-dependence penalized, adjacency to large healthy markets rewarded.",
    "cap": "Capital access: depth and openness of domestic capital markets, reserve/safe-haven status, sovereign balance sheet."
  },
  "DEFAULTS": { "geo": 5, "trade": 5, "agri": null, "ener": null, "cap": null },

  "USA": { "geo": 9, "agri": 9, "ener": 8, "trade": 8, "cap": 9,
    "notes": {
      "geo": "Two ocean moats, benign neighbors, unmatched internal waterways.",
      "agri": "The Midwest is the planet's largest contiguous prime farmland.",
      "ener": "Shale made it a net energy exporter; full-spectrum resource base.",
      "trade": "USMCA is a near-self-contained consumption-driven system.",
      "cap": "Deepest capital markets and the reserve currency." } },
  "MEX": { "geo": 6, "agri": 5, "ener": 5, "trade": 8, "cap": 5,
    "notes": {
      "geo": "Deserts and mountains buffer it; cartel conflict is the internal tax.",
      "agri": "Decent but water-stressed in the industrial north.",
      "ener": "Oil legacy in decline, underinvested grid.",
      "trade": "Land border with the world's biggest consumer market — the single best trade position of any middle-income country.",
      "cap": "Improving but shallow; nearshoring is importing capital for it." } },
  "CHN": { "geo": 6, "agri": 4, "ener": 3, "trade": 3, "cap": 4,
    "notes": {
      "geo": "Buffered by desert, mountain and ocean, but its sea lanes run through hostile chokepoints.",
      "agri": "Arable land per capita is thin and the water table north of the Yangtze is failing.",
      "ener": "The largest energy importer in history; seaborne supply lines it cannot convoy.",
      "trade": "Export-led model aimed at customers it is antagonizing, via chokepoints it does not control.",
      "cap": "Vast but captive savings; capital controls and politicized allocation." } },
  "JPN": { "geo": 7, "agri": 3, "ener": 2, "trade": 4, "cap": 7,
    "notes": {
      "geo": "Island moat plus the US alliance; the original defensible archipelago.",
      "agri": "Mountainous; structurally food-import dependent.",
      "ener": "Near-total import dependence post-Fukushima.",
      "trade": "Deep blue-water navy and diversified FDI soften raw import exposure.",
      "cap": "Enormous domestic savings pool and external asset position." } },
  "KOR": { "geo": 3, "agri": 3, "ener": 2, "trade": 3, "cap": 6,
    "notes": {
      "geo": "A peninsula wedged between China, Japan and a nuclear sibling.",
      "agri": "Limited arable land, heavy import reliance.",
      "ener": "Almost fully imported energy.",
      "trade": "The most export-dependent major economy, with the worst demographic cliff.",
      "cap": "Sophisticated markets, strong chaebol balance sheets." } },
  "DEU": { "geo": 4, "agri": 5, "ener": 3, "trade": 4, "cap": 7,
    "notes": {
      "geo": "The North European Plain is indefensible in both directions.",
      "agri": "Solid temperate agriculture, import-balanced.",
      "ener": "Bet on Russian gas and lost; industrial energy costs now structural.",
      "trade": "An export machine whose customers (EU, China) are aging faster than it is.",
      "cap": "Deep, conservative capital base; the eurozone's anchor." } },
  "ITA": { "geo": 5, "agri": 5, "ener": 3, "trade": 4, "cap": 4,
    "notes": {
      "geo": "Alpine wall in the north, but long exposed coastlines.",
      "agri": "Productive north, arid struggling south.",
      "ener": "High import dependence, contested Mediterranean supply.",
      "trade": "Mid-tier manufacturing squeezed between Germany and Asia.",
      "cap": "Chronic sovereign-debt overhang caps fiscal room." } },
  "RUS": { "geo": 4, "agri": 6, "ener": 9, "trade": 2, "cap": 2,
    "notes": {
      "geo": "No natural western border — hence the permanent expansion reflex; depth is its only moat.",
      "agri": "A top wheat exporter despite climate limits.",
      "ener": "World-class oil, gas, uranium, metals.",
      "trade": "Sanctioned out of premium markets; hostage to discount buyers.",
      "cap": "Frozen reserves, expropriation risk, no external capital access." } },
  "IND": { "geo": 7, "agri": 6, "ener": 3, "trade": 5, "cap": 4,
    "notes": {
      "geo": "Himalayan wall and an ocean named after it.",
      "agri": "The Ganges basin feeds 1.4bn but monsoon and groundwater risk loom.",
      "ener": "Heavy import dependence, though diversified suppliers.",
      "trade": "Balanced economy, less export-hostage than East Asia.",
      "cap": "Improving depth; still capital-scarce for its scale." } },
  "NGA": { "geo": 4, "agri": 6, "ener": 7, "trade": 4, "cap": 2,
    "notes": {
      "geo": "Colonial borders binding 250 ethnicities; internal security is the constraint.",
      "agri": "Enormous underused potential in the middle belt.",
      "ener": "Major oil and gas producer, chronically underinvested.",
      "trade": "Gulf of Guinea access but a rough neighborhood.",
      "cap": "Shallow markets, capital flight, naira instability." } },

  "FRA": { "geo": 7, "agri": 8, "ener": 6, "trade": 6, "cap": 7 },
  "GBR": { "geo": 8, "agri": 5, "ener": 5, "trade": 6, "cap": 8 },
  "CAN": { "geo": 8, "agri": 8, "ener": 9, "trade": 7, "cap": 7 },
  "AUS": { "geo": 9, "agri": 8, "ener": 8, "trade": 5, "cap": 7 },
  "BRA": { "geo": 7, "agri": 9, "ener": 7, "trade": 6, "cap": 4 },
  "ARG": { "geo": 8, "agri": 9, "ener": 7, "trade": 5, "cap": 3 },
  "IDN": { "geo": 7, "agri": 5, "ener": 6, "trade": 6, "cap": 4 },
  "VNM": { "geo": 5, "agri": 6, "ener": 4, "trade": 5, "cap": 4 },
  "THA": { "geo": 6, "agri": 7, "ener": 4, "trade": 5, "cap": 5 },
  "TUR": { "geo": 8, "agri": 6, "ener": 3, "trade": 6, "cap": 4 },
  "IRN": { "geo": 7, "agri": 4, "ener": 8, "trade": 2, "cap": 2 },
  "SAU": { "geo": 5, "agri": 1, "ener": 10, "trade": 5, "cap": 6 },
  "ARE": { "geo": 5, "agri": 1, "ener": 9, "trade": 7, "cap": 7 },
  "ISR": { "geo": 3, "agri": 3, "ener": 6, "trade": 4, "cap": 7 },
  "EGY": { "geo": 6, "agri": 3, "ener": 4, "trade": 5, "cap": 2 },
  "ZAF": { "geo": 7, "agri": 6, "ener": 4, "trade": 5, "cap": 5 },
  "ETH": { "geo": 4, "agri": 5, "ener": 4, "trade": 3, "cap": 2 },
  "COD": { "geo": 3, "agri": 5, "ener": 6, "trade": 2, "cap": 1 },
  "PAK": { "geo": 4, "agri": 5, "ener": 2, "trade": 3, "cap": 2 },
  "BGD": { "geo": 3, "agri": 5, "ener": 3, "trade": 4, "cap": 3 },
  "PHL": { "geo": 6, "agri": 4, "ener": 3, "trade": 5, "cap": 4 },
  "POL": { "geo": 3, "agri": 6, "ener": 4, "trade": 6, "cap": 5 },
  "UKR": { "geo": 2, "agri": 9, "ener": 4, "trade": 2, "cap": 1 },
  "ESP": { "geo": 7, "agri": 6, "ener": 5, "trade": 5, "cap": 5 },
  "SWE": { "geo": 7, "agri": 5, "ener": 7, "trade": 6, "cap": 7 },
  "NOR": { "geo": 8, "agri": 3, "ener": 10, "trade": 6, "cap": 8 },
  "CHE": { "geo": 9, "agri": 4, "ener": 5, "trade": 6, "cap": 9 },
  "SGP": { "geo": 4, "agri": 0, "ener": 2, "trade": 7, "cap": 9 },
  "TWN": { "geo": 2, "agri": 3, "ener": 1, "trade": 3, "cap": 6 }
}