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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.
About fifty newsletters, read and sorted every morning.
Every story, filterable by topic, sport and theme, sixty days back.
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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 States191
Great Britain141
Spain134Musical 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%United Kingdom4.5%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 World in 2100
Every country, every year to 2100, plus the EU, the AU, ASEAN and forty-odd other blocs, and the year each one peaks.
India1.51bnChina633m
Pakistan511mThe Greatest Games
Two per sport, with all-time Game Score rank
📰 From the digest
In the news
As of Thu 17 Sept 2026 · from about fifty newsletters
Semafor
Fed raises interest rates in unanimous voteThe Fed raised rates a quarter point for the first time in three years, unanimously, with 16 of 18 participants projecting another hike this year.
Business Insider
The biggest storylines to watch heading into the Fed's rate decisionMarkets had priced a hike at close to 95%, and investors saw it as a test of the Fed's independence from the White House.
Forbes
OpenAI is reportedly weighing a new funding round at a $1.5 trillion valuationOpenAI is reportedly weighing a round at up to $1.5 trillion, days after Sam Altman said it will not go public this year.
Business Insider
Amazon plans 1,000 same-day fulfillment centers to challenge WalmartAmazon wants more than 1,000 same-day delivery facilities by 2031, up from 85, taking aim at Walmart's everyday-shopping advantage.
Forbes
Bitcoin, ethereum and other major cryptocurrencies tumble as CLARITY Act failsThe Senate failed 49–50 to advance the crypto framework bill after Democrats said it lacked safeguards against presidential self-enrichment.
Semafor
Bipartisan AI safety talks accelerate in SenateTed Cruz said he would love to mark up the bipartisan AI safety bill this month, while John Thune said it remains to be seen.
The atlas
Everything on the site
Digest
LIVEEvery story worth keeping from about fifty newsletters, read and sorted each morning.
Today · Topics · Sports · Themes · 60 daysRankings
The metro leaderboard, badges, and the compare tool.
Top 100 · Compare · BadgesGeography
Countries, states, leaders, the power atlas, and the world map.
Countries · 2100 · 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