01Sovereign Assets · What Nations Own

Everyone measures what a nation owes. We measure what it owns.

We value each nation’s five greatest assets, so that what it owns can finance seven basic standards of living for every citizen.

Each gold light is one recorded asset: tap a nation to open it.
  • 220Assets recorded
  • 44Nations
  • 8Asset classes

Updated 10 November 2026, from every open blueprint.

The rationale

A balance sheet with one side missing

Every nation publishes what it owes; almost none records what it owns, so Perfect Nations writes the second column.

What it owesPublished
  • Public debtReported
  • Interest paymentsReported
  • Budget deficitReported
  • Credit ratingReported
What it ownsRarely recorded
  • Water & Rivers
  • Ocean & Coast
  • Position & Institutions
  • Beneath the Ground
  • People
  • Sun, Wind & Power
  • Land & Harvest
  • Forest & Wild
CountedEvery year
CountedAlmost never
The Perfect Nations Ratio Financeable assets÷the yearly price of the seven standards Perfect Capita

Five assets

Assets no national account has counted

River, sea, ground, route and sun: five kinds of national wealth, each from an open blueprint.

White water and mist on the lower Congo River at Inga
Water & Rivers

42GW

of hydropower potential at one site, on one river

Inga Falls

DR Congo

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The Congo carries the second-largest flow of any river on Earth. Inga 1 and Inga 2 use about 1.8 GW of it; the rest still runs to the sea.

See its five assets

Source: World Bank, October 2024

What we do

Assets. Capital. Solutions.

Three steps, from what a nation owns to seven basic standards of living for every citizen.

  1. 01AssetsThe cup

    We value what a nation owns: its sovereign assets, from its people to its coast.

    You are here
  2. 02CapitalThe laurels

    We design the instruments that raise capital against those assets, from every source.

    Capital Architecture
  3. 03SolutionsThe seven stars

    Perfect Capita: seven basic standards of living for every citizen, Food the crown.

    Perfect Capita
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