{
  "_purpose": "Which countries LEXUN supports, at which honest level, derived from the bundle. The build fails if this file disagrees with the evidence, and the prose must not outrun this file.",
  "ladder": [
    {
      "level": 0,
      "name": "Unsupported",
      "meaning": "No verified evidence. Models refuse local reference figures; results state the gap instead of borrowing another country's."
    },
    {
      "level": 1,
      "name": "Global evidence only",
      "meaning": "Only evidence not specific to the country. LEXUN currently bundles no global-institution datasets, so no country sits here yet."
    },
    {
      "level": 2,
      "name": "National data",
      "meaning": "At least one national statistical dataset bundled with provenance and vintage discipline."
    },
    {
      "level": 3,
      "name": "National data + official reports",
      "meaning": "National datasets plus figures resolved from official publications through the public forecast register."
    },
    {
      "level": 4,
      "name": "Local + research",
      "meaning": "City/regional evidence and approved empirical research parameters. Requires the parameter registry — not built."
    },
    {
      "level": 5,
      "name": "Validated, backtested models",
      "meaning": "Country-specific models with a calibration record above the ten-outcome minimum. No country qualifies yet."
    }
  ],
  "countries": {
    "GB": {
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "level": 3,
      "basis": {
        "national_datasets": [
          "/data/boe-bank-rate.json",
          "/data/ons-cpi-annual.json"
        ],
        "official_figures_resolved_through_register": 6,
        "released_models": [
          "runway@1.0.1",
          "career@1.1.1",
          "opportunity@1.0.1"
        ],
        "world_state": "ws-95cb68026e"
      },
      "not_level_4_because": "no approved empirical research parameters exist (the parameter registry is not built), and city-level evidence is not bundled",
      "not_level_5_because": "the resolved-outcome sample is below the ten-per-domain minimum, so no calibration record can validate a model yet"
    }
  },
  "default_for_unlisted_countries": {
    "level": 0,
    "rule": "Every country not listed above is Level 0: unsupported. Geography is recorded on every decision, currencies display correctly, but UK reference figures are withheld rather than passed off as local evidence, and no local base rate, survival prior or condition is invented."
  },
  "countries_above_level_0": 1,
  "live_connectors": 0
}