rankings.citizenofnowhere.org
Cities are the unit of civilization.
So we measure them, and the power, sport, and culture they concentrate.
Everything ranked in the open, for anyone who would rather settle an argument with data than opinion.
The indices
The rankings
Metros, people, countries, artists, films, and the 235-year sweep of world power. Each index has its own hub, hand-curated, weighted in the open, and inspectable at the row level.
Metro Power Rankings
Every metro on Earth, scored across sixteen weighted dimensions.
The Nowhere 100
The hundred most powerful people alive, on one Metro Power scale.
Zone Zero Cup
National sporting merit across fourteen pillars, ten-year half-life.
United States167
Germany122
Great Britain119Musical Artist Rankings
The biggest artists by chart success and prestige, by home metro.
The Power Atlas
National power ranked year by year, from the Renaissance to today.
United States20.9%
China11.8%The Election Atlas
Every election in 35 countries and the EU — parties, leaders, turnout, and the results.
The Screen of the Metros
A century of box office and Oscar prestige, credited back to the metros that made it.
The Greatest Games
Two per sport, with all-time Game Score rank
The atlas
Everything on the site
Rankings
The metro leaderboard, badges, and the compare tool.
Top 100 · Compare · BadgesGeography
Countries, states, leaders, the power atlas, and the world map.
Countries · States · Map · Power AtlasSports
LIVEEvery league, national team, and cross-sport index.
Leagues · Zone Zero Cup · RivalriesSound
The music of the metros, by chart and by decade.
Rankings · Artists · Awards · DecadesScreen
The films of the metros, by box office and by ceremony.
Rankings · Number Ones · Oscars · 500 GreatestPeople
The powerful, the wealthy, and the elected.
Nowhere 100 · Billionaires · MayorsElections
Every democracy’s elections, since the 1800s, in one atlas.
35 polities · World Map · ForecastsEssays
Long-form deep dives and the Substack archive.
Deep Dives · SubstackBadges
The same data reframed through categorical lenses.
Finance · Culture · Rail · SportPlay
Games and learning tools for younger fans.
Kids Games · Arcade🟢 In season now
✍️ From the journal
All essays ↗🏅 Badges
The same data, reframed through categorical lenses.
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Methodology
How the score is built
The composite measures metro completeness: the breadth and depth of globally-recognized infrastructure, culture, sport, finance, education, and connectivity concentrated in one place. It is not a livability score or a popularity contest. It is a composite of what a metro has built.
Sixteen weighted terms, each drawing its own lines: linear where volume matters, logarithmic where returns diminish, capped where you either have the thing or you do not.
Read the full methodology