Regions
Every region we cover, each one a hub: who holds the leverage there, how the region is holding up, and the connections running through it to the rest of the map.
12 hubs · 5 with a considered read of region health · 7 not yet assessed
Energy as leverage, sanctions as the counter-move, and the limits of both. Where Russian power actually sits: long on energy and…
Broad power with one structural gap. Europe is strong on economy, diplomacy and soft power, short on energy — and every live…
The region that sets the price of everything else, now fighting the war the rest of this map runs downstream of. When the Strait…
The United States is the acting side of two connections on the map — the sanctions chain, and the US–Iran war it is now…
The surplus the rest of this map is defending against, and the technology fight's other side. Europe's sovereignty package is…
Africa is where the second-order costs of distant decisions land first — food prices set by other continents' wars, minerals…
India is the clearest live test of whether sanctions redirect trade rather than stop it — a buyer with the size to set terms and…
A mid-size economy that punches through a P5 Security Council seat, a nuclear deterrent and a financial centre most of this map…
Latin America sits downstream of most crises on this map — a commodity supplier that turns other continents' shocks into export…
The trade lane the rest of this map's chip controls, tariffs and overcapacity all have to pass through — the Malacca and…
Retreating ice is opening shipping routes and resource claims faster than any treaty covering them, and the powers with a…
Three small states between two seas, carrying pipelines the rest of this map depends on and frozen conflicts none of them have…
Ordered by how much of the work is done, not alphabetically. A hub listed here with nothing assessed is a hub we have opened and not yet earned — that is why it says so on the card rather than looking like the others.