Free market
No policy. The nation is worth exactly what it is worth.
Buys. Nothing is distorted. Every ranking counts at face value.
Costs. No advantage anywhere either.
Government
Referendums
Everyone holding a nation's coin is its government. Any citizen can put a doctrine to their country, and the country votes on it weighted by what each wallet holds. A doctrine is not a label. Every one of them moves the nation up one ranking and down another, so a vote is a decision about which race the country is running.
No referendum is open
Any holder of a claimed nation can put a doctrine to their country. Open one from that nation's page.
The five doctrines
Industry
The nation is measured by what moves through it, not what sits in it.
Buys. Trading volume counts toward the economy alongside market cap.
Costs. Loyalty counts for half. Churn is not citizenship.
Open borders
Citizens of the wider world are welcome, and counted twice.
Buys. Loyalty counts double. Holders of the hub are worth more here.
Costs. War score falls by a fifth. An open country is a hard one to defend.
Conscription
Every citizen is a soldier. The country is organised for war.
Buys. War score rises by a third, attacking and defending alike.
Costs. The economy counts for a tenth less. Guns are not butter.
Isolation
The borders close. Nobody comes in, and nobody goes out.
Buys. Cannot be attacked. No war can be declared on this nation.
Costs. Cannot attack either, and the economy counts for fifteen percent less.