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Chapter 11: Apex government visibility - the abacus of paradoxes

Draft v7.6 · 5 October 2026

Chapter 11 introduces the Government Abacus as a way of making visible how governments settle recurring tensions between competing goods . It then uses back-sighting, country comparison and trajectory over time to turn those settlements into an evidence-based, contestable visibility tool for citizens.

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