Housing and daily life
Aggregated from the states currently assigned to this country.
The six countries
Open a country.
See how it lives.
These profiles combine the current project-map borders with population, economy, housing, age, transportation, politics, religion, safety, health, longevity and air-quality data. Move a state and the profiles change with it.
Country profile · live map
Age, education and social texture
Population-weighted national measures.
Air connections
Commercial-service airports and FAA CY2024 passenger boardings.
Public life and quality-of-life facts
Latest available source-backed measures. Years stay visible because these datasets are released on different schedules.
Map Lab
We Created Six Americas.
Explore Them or Build Your Own.
Begin with our Six Americas, a completely blank map or the existing USA—and then change anything. Rename countries, move states directly on the map, choose capitals and colours, or rebuild the map from scratch to create your own project. We made six countries. How many would you make? Each project can contain up to 12 countries.
Choose a starting map
1. Create or select a country→ 2. Click states on the map to add them.
Your Map
Select any state to inspect it and decide where it belongs.
Assign this state
State Inspector
Current factual profile
Latest available measurements, with the source year shown explicitly.
Country builder
Build the selected country
Autosave ready
Six Americas story desk
Turn this map into a narrative.
Create a private, editable story about the countries in this project. The draft leads with the character of their states, regions and major cities, then uses GDP and other statistics where they add meaning.
Fully formed geography
Live country dossiers
Map Lab · Government Framework
Choose the government framework
Choose how authority is distributed, leaders are selected, laws are made and the framework can be changed.
Add or select a country before designing its government.
Government summary
Healthcare, education, immigration, taxation and other policy areas are configured in their own Builder stages.
Map Lab · National Identity + Citizenship
Set the country’s language, religion and citizenship rules
Choose the relationship between religion and the state, the languages used by national institutions, and the rules for acquiring or holding citizenship. The choices are grouped by subject so related decisions remain together.
Add or select a country before defining national identity and citizenship.
National identity summary
Citizenship rules define legal membership; they do not determine ethnicity, culture or personal identity.
Immigration admissions and residency visas are configured in the section directly below.
Map Lab · Flag, Emblem + National Symbols
Give the country a public identity people can recognise
Reference countries keep their established Six Americas or real-world flag intact. For a custom country, build a flag from simple geometric layouts, create a matching emblem, and define the country’s motto, demonym, currency and national symbols.
Add or select a country before designing its flag and national symbols.
National identity system
National flag
Flag preview
Drag to move · Arrow keys nudge · Shift + arrows move farther · +/− scales
Reference flag · protected. This flag is displayed exactly as supplied and cannot be overwritten here. Create a custom country to design a different flag.
National emblem
Emblem preview
Flag design
Choose a simple structure, colour system and central device.
Drag the placed emblem or motif on the preview; use this slider to scale it from 50% to 200%.
National language and conventions
Define how residents, money and the national day are described.
National symbols
These are optional cultural choices and do not affect the fiscal or legal model.
The generator proposes geometric flag concepts. User-entered mottos and symbols remain part of the shared configuration.
Map Lab · Immigration + Residence
Set the rules for entry, residence and settlement
Combine work and special-residence routes, then define family reunification, humanitarian protection, temporary labour, permanent residence and how residence counts toward citizenship. The framework describes the legal system without rating it as open, closed, generous or strict.
Add or select a country before defining immigration and residence policy.
Immigration and residence summary
These choices establish legal routes and timelines. They do not predict how many people will apply,
how quickly applications will be processed, or the economic effect of migration. Those outcomes would
require a separate model with stated assumptions.
Map Lab · Civil Rights + Personal Status
Set civil-rights and personal-status rules
Configure LGBTQ+ status, transgender rights, racial and ethnic status, voting and segregation, plus general rules for consent and marriage.
Add or select a country before defining civil rights and personal-status law.
Civil-rights and personal-status summary
General age-of-consent and marriage-age rules apply to the whole population and are configured separately from LGBTQ+ status.
Map Lab · Public Services + Economic Framework
Choose what the public sector provides and how it is funded
Configure healthcare, education, pensions, income protection, housing, labour rules, taxation and public ownership. The choices describe institutions and funding methods; they are not scored as more compassionate, efficient, capitalist or socialist.
Add or select a country before defining public services and the economic framework.
Public services and economic summary
This stage defines programmes and revenue structure, not exact tax rates or guaranteed outcomes.
The Fiscal Model below converts these choices into transparent expenditure and revenue ranges using
the country’s observed population, age, income, housing and economic data.
Map Lab · Fiscal Model
Test whether the country can pay for its policy choices
The model combines observed state data with transparent programme-cost and revenue assumptions. It estimates the consolidated public sector—including national, state and local government—so devolved services do not disappear from the calculation.
Add or select a country before calculating a fiscal model.
Modelled expenditure
Public spending
Modelled receipts
Public revenue
Observed inputs
What comes from the selected states
Interpretation
What is driving the result
How the fiscal model works
Each selected programme is assigned an illustrative central cost or revenue share of GDP. Low and high estimates reflect implementation, take-up, economic conditions and programme design. Age and youth adjustments use the country’s observed demographic profile.
The model excludes existing public debt and therefore does not estimate debt-interest costs. It also does not forecast economic growth, behavioural responses, migration, productivity, healthcare outcomes or the effect of changing tax rates. Results are scenario estimates—not predictions.
Observed figures and calculated country totals are data-based. Programme costs, tax yields and the
resulting balance are modelled assumptions. A “surplus” does not guarantee fiscal success, and a “gap”
means the selected policy package needs additional revenue, lower spending or a different implementation.
Map Lab · Sources, Methodology + Validation
See exactly where the numbers come from
Every statistic in the current Builder is a formation-day baseline. Policy choices do not change population, GDP, commuting, housing or demographic values. This page documents the source vintage, aggregation method and validation status of the embedded dataset.
Source register
Official datasets and vintages
State audit
Inspect one state
Metric dictionary
Definition, vintage and country calculation
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Aggregation rules
How state records become a country
Sums: population, GDP, land area, workers, households, airports and passenger boardings are added across member states.
Weighted averages: rent, income, age, education, foreign-born share, urban share and similar rates use the relevant population, household, worker or rental-unit denominator.
Derived measures: GDP per person equals aggregated current-dollar GDP divided by the 2025 formation population. Density equals population divided by land area.
No policy feedback: configured laws do not modify any observed or calculated statistic in this release.
Fiscal-model boundary
What is modelled—and what is not
Programme costs and revenue yields are transparent illustrative percentages of GDP, reported as low, central and high scenarios.
The fiscal model uses the observed formation population, GDP, workforce, households and age structure.
It excludes debt interest and does not forecast migration, productivity, business relocation, tax avoidance, behavioural responses or future economic growth.
Automated validation
Checks run inside this file
ACS values are survey estimates and carry margins of error that are not yet propagated through
custom-country totals. BEA estimates may be revised. The audit verifies coverage, arithmetic and
internal consistency; it does not replace review of the agencies’ technical documentation.
Map Lab · National Dossier + Share Card
Publish the country as a fully formed national profile
The dossier combines observed geography and statistics, configured institutions and policies, and the modelled fiscal result. The social card condenses the country into a downloadable image.
Add or select a country before generating a national dossier.
National dossier
Observed state data
Calculated country aggregate
User-configured institutions
Modelled fiscal estimate
The dossier distinguishes observed data, configured law and modelled assumptions. It does not
infer that a restrictive law is harmless, that an expansive programme will succeed, or that a
projected fiscal balance is guaranteed.
Formation baselines use Census Vintage 2025 population estimates, BEA 2025 annual current-dollar GDP,
2024 Census/ACS housing and demographic measures, 2020 Census urban and diversity measures, and FAA
CY2024 airport data. Country values are sums or weighted aggregates of assigned states; policy
choices do not alter the baseline in this release.
Compare your countries
Put them side by side.
See the trade-offs.
Select two or three countries. Population, economy, housing, transportation, age and airport measures use the current project-map borders and recalculate whenever a state moves.
There is no universal winner. Lower rent, stronger transit, younger populations and larger
economies are separate advantages, and they rarely belong to the same country.
Choose two or three countries
Two countries is a duel. Three makes the trade-offs much easier to see.
At a glance
Different questions, different winners
Detailed comparison
Country measures
Gold marks the strongest value among the countries currently selected.
What the numbers suggest
The practical choice
Important limitation
A country is not one neighbourhood
These are country-level aggregates. New York City and rural Maine do not live the same way, nor do Los Angeles and eastern Oregon. Use the comparison to understand national character and broad trade-offs, then inspect individual states and places before drawing local conclusions.
Population uses Census Vintage 2025 estimates and GDP uses BEA 2025 annual current dollars. Lifestyle measures use 2024 ACS,
2020 Census urban/diversity data and FAA CY2024 airport data. Dollar amounts are shown in USD.
Your countries in the world
Put a new country
on the world map.
Compare its scale, economy, geography and people with real countries. Rankings and nearby peers recalculate from the borders in the open Map Lab project.
This is a formation-day comparison, not a forecast. It shows where the combined states would begin;
new laws, currencies, borders and institutions could change the picture later.
Choose a country
Select one of the countries in your current project.
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World consequences
Six new countries enter the rankings.
World position
Measure by measure
Percentiles compare World Bank economies with an available observation.
World peers use the latest available 2018–2025 observation from the World Bank World Development Indicators;
each card shows its data year. Six Americas values use the current project’s Census, BEA and approved state facts.
Median age is a population-weighted approximation from state medians; its world marker uses the UN World Population Prospects 2024 global median.
Six Americas Stories
New borders,
familiar places.
Narrative journeys through the countries, states, cities and choices imagined in Six Americas Map Lab.
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