The Atlas · standing instrument
One world, read every way
The same map, one lens at a time: jurisdiction risk, private wealth, spheres of influence, political regime, and self-sufficiency. Over any of them lie the financial centres and havens, the seven chokepoints, and the arteries of trade, energy, data, and rail.
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Bases: Risk · Wealth · Influence · Regime · Resilience Overlays: Financial centres · Chokepoints · Arteries
173 countries 10 critical 56 high median 48.0 v2.1 · reviewed July 2026
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Standing instrument · Interactive · Version 2.0
Jurisdiction Planning Risk Index
173 countries scored on four questions: could this place slide into violence, economic collapse, political closure, or demographic decline? Search it, sort it, click any country for its full scores.
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Principles · No. 1
Jurisdiction Planning: The Discipline
What jurisdiction planning is, and how a diagnosis is built: the laws that reach a family or a company, the channels they travel, and the verdict on each.
Principles · No. 2
The Sovereign Family
What all this work is for. Six ways a state can hold a family in place, and what a family looks like when none of the six can hold it.
Founding statement · 2026
A Journal Seeking to Become an Association
Why the Journal exists, who pays for it, and what it will take to get there.
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In preparation: Dossier No. 1, The Fiscal Siege: Brazil (English edition of O Cerco Fiscal) · country-by-country maps of the laws that reach families, beginning with Brazil · briefings on bills and windows in motion · Principles No. 3, The Sovereign Company.
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- 20 Jul 2026Two new instruments complete the shelf: The Cable Map and Food and Energy Self-Sufficiency. The same six things great powers fight to control, now mapped end to end.
- 20 Jul 2026New standing instrument: Who Mines vs Who Refines, on the materials whose refining, not mining, is the chokepoint.
- 20 Jul 2026New standing instrument: The Custody Map, a ledger of who can freeze the world's wealth and where it is held.
- 20 Jul 2026New standing instrument: The Seven Chokepoints, a map and reference brief on the maritime narrows that carry the world's trade and oil.
- 20 Jul 2026Coverage reaches 173 countries: 41 further additions across Africa, Central Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, provisional on the same anchored method. Four microstates stay unscored for lack of source coverage; territories now carry their sovereign's score.
- 20 Jul 2026Index v2.1: coverage extends from 118 to 132 countries, the United States among them. Additions are provisional, scored by anchoring on the same sources, pending the 2026 edition.
- 20 Jul 2026Score notes arrive on the index: each dimension now opens into its method and, country by country, the facts behind the grade. First tranche: the critical band and Brazil.
- 20 Jul 2026The Journal moved to jurisdictionplanning.org; the .com address forwards.
- 20 Jul 2026The index's first dimension is renamed Violence Outbreak; it always measured more than war.
- 15 Jul 2026The Sovereign Company announced as Principles No. 3, now in preparation.
Why this journal exists
Publications in this field come from providers: programme sellers document their programmes, banks their products, law firms the structures they build. The Journal covers the field from the other end, for the person or company that has to put the pieces together. Who publishes it, who funds it, and what it intends to become are declared in the founding statement.