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  1. Neural Nations — Home
  2. CAMS Foundational Conversations
  3. Predictions
  4. Predictions 2027–2028: the United States, China and Australia
  5. CAMS Rich Datasets
  6. Explore
  7. CAMS Scorer — Score Any Country, Company, or City
  8. CAMS Network Explorer — Institutional Weather
  9. CAMS Mind Reader
  10. Research

Start Here

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  • Neural Nations — HomeGuide

    CAMS reads societies, firms and civilisations through eight functions of human coordination, and tests what that reading can and cannot recover. Open data, open code, pre-registered tests, published failures.

  • Start HereGuide

    New to Neural Nations or CAMS? Start here. Three entry points by audience type, a plain-English explainer, and a guide to what

  • What Is CAMS?Guide

    CAMS treats every organised human society as a living coordination system and measures its health the way you

  • Why CAMS Is Not Just Another Macro ModelGuide

    The theoretical case for CAMS: why coordination quality is not the same as structural complexity, and why existing macro models miss the pre-crisis signal.

  • The CAMS ModelGuide

    CAMS models societies as 8-node × 4-metric coordination systems. Full framework documentation: node definitions, formulas, regime classification, validation reports.

  • CAMS v3.2 FrameworkGuide
  • FAQGuide

    Frequently asked questions about CAMS: what it is, how scores are produced, what the version labels mean, what the model can and cannot do, and how to get involved.

  • A Short History of CAMSGuide

    How CAMS — an instrument for measuring the health of civilisations — was built, what it has found on settled historical cases, and what it is (and is not) claiming to be.

  • The Dynamics of Social Organisation: the book behind Neural NationsGuide

    The book, offered as my personal explanation for this site and its method. Every human organisation is an adaptive-human metasystem, constantly and unstoppably signalling the stress of adaptation into a now common…

  • The CAMS Project: A HistoryGuide

    Chronological reconstruction of CAMS development from mid-2024 through 2026 — including the epistemological origins, theoretical revisions, and open science positioning.

  • CAMS Foundational ConversationsGuide

    Transcripts and summaries of the key theoretical conversations that shaped the CAMS framework — epistemological origins and early formalisations.

Results & Predictions

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  • CAMS Results at a GlanceFindings

    What CAMS has actually found across 32+ societies, 5,000 years of history, and 39,000+ data records. Plain-language guide to the most significant results, with honest caveats.

  • Validation & Limits — CAMSFindings

    What CAMS has shown, what it has not yet proven, its known limits, and what would strengthen or weaken it. An honest account of where the research programme stands.

  • PredictionsFindings

    Out-of-sample prospective predictions for 2027–2028 under the CAMS v1.0-Final graph-theoretic framework. Six nations, registered and certified.

  • Predictions 2027–2028: the United States, China and AustraliaFindings

    Prospective, falsifiable CAMS/JUNO predictions for the United States, China and Australia in 2027 and 2028, lodged before the outcomes are scored. 32 claims, each with a stated probability and a rule for how it will…

  • CAMS National Diagnostic — 32 SocietiesFindings

    CAMS v3.2-R observed-only diagnostic for 32 societies. 8-node × 4-metric matrix with active pathology signatures, expected epiphenomena, and historical analogue matching. No projection.

  • CAMS Escalation ArchetypesFindings

    The five archetypal pathways through which societies escalate from institutional stress to systemic crisis. Visualised as causal loop diagrams.

  • CAMS Failure Modes MapFindings

    Interactive causal loop diagram of the four CAMS failure spirals: R1 Flow-Hands death spiral, R2 rent-seeking trap, R3 Shield capture, R4 institutional amnesia.

  • Failure Modes: How Complex Systems Drift into CollapseFindings

    Narrative exploration of the four CAMS failure modes — from coordinated decline to institutional capture. A readable guide to societal stress pathways.

  • Three Great-Power Trajectories Against Their Own Historical AttractorsFindings

    A JUNO/CAMS results note on bloc-coordination structure and the isolation of the United States trajectory. China, Russia, and the USA measured against their own twentieth-century attractor bands. All three in…

  • CAMS in ActionFindings

    Applied case studies: CAMS scores for historical and contemporary polities, showing how the framework detects institutional stress before it becomes visible.

  • ReportsFindings

    CAMS research reports, analytical notebooks, and long-form findings by Kari Freyr McKern.

Datasets

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  • Open DatasetsDataset

    95,545 CAMS records across 50 societies and 107 historical series. JUNO-1.0 bond formalism covering 53 societies. Freely downloadable. Scored by GPT + Grok + Gemini ensemble. Scoring methodology, validation reports,…

  • CAMS Rich DatasetsDataset

    Multi-society, multi-corpus structural analysis under one framework. Each country section pairs a primary discourse corpus with the five-scorer CAMS ensemble to produce a shared, comparable structural reading.

  • Data Explorer — Epiphenomenon@TroveDataset

    Explore the underlying data: threat discourse frequencies, Australia's structural profile, and WWI/WWII pre-war signals.

  • Repository AccessDataset

    Access the Neural Nations CAMS research repository. Dataset downloads, scoring rubrics, and validation reports.

  • Request Repository AccessDataset

    Request access to the full Neural Nations CAMS research repository for academic or practitioner use.

Tools & Explorers

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  • ExploreTool

    Interactive tools and validated analyses built on the CAMS framework: Advanced Analysis, Failure Modes, Escalation Archetypes, Mindscapes, and more.

  • CAMS DashboardTool

    The Neural Nations CAMS dashboard — live node values, bond strengths, and system-level metrics for current and historical societies.

  • CAMS Scorer — Score Any Country, Company, or CityTool

    Run a live CAMS raw scoring pass on any country, company, or city. Three isolated Kimi passes, ensembled into node-level Coherence, Capacity, Stress, and Abstraction with an uncertainty envelope.

  • CAMS Scorer — Local EditionTool

    Download the standalone CAMS Scorer for Windows. Score any country, company, or city on your own machine, using your own OpenAI, Grok, Claude, or Kimi account.

  • CAMS Explorer — Thermodynamics of HistoryTool

    Interactive CAMS dashboard. Select any of 45 societies, step through history year by year, and watch node values, bond strengths, and Λ(t) update in real time.

  • JUNO Dataset ExplorerTool

    Interactive explorer for the JUNO Unified Dataset: 53 societies, 8 nodes, 47,960 scored node-years. Trajectory charts, thermodynamic phase portraits, and per-node health diagnostics.

  • JUNO Formulation — CAMS CalculatorTool
  • CAMS InterpreterTool

    Interactive CAMS score interpreter. Enter node values and see V, σ, B_ij, and Λ(t) computed in real time with regime classification.

  • CAMS One-on-One SnapshotTool

    Select any society and year for a full CAMS diagnostic: attractor basin, activation signals, discourse fingerprints, and pathology flags — computed live from ensemble data.

  • CAMS CompareTool

    Two societies, one kernel. Select any two nations and scrub the year slider — V̄, κ, λ₂, phase space, and structural events computed live from the CAMS v3.2-R ensemble.

  • CAMS Zeitgeist DetectorTool

    Real-time CAMS analysis of current civilisational signals — tracking where contemporary polities sit in the CAMS regime space.

  • CAMS Advanced AnalysisTool

    Deep-dive CAMS visualisations: node trajectories, ESCH stress profiles, cross-layer bond networks, and Λ(t) regime detection across 38 societies.

  • CAMS-CAN Integrated Analysis DashboardTool

    Combined CAMS and CAN (Coordination Analysis Network) dashboard for integrated civilisational health assessment.

  • CAMS Dashboard — USA, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel (2015–2026)Tool
  • CAMS Network Explorer — Institutional WeatherTool

    Interactive 8-node CAMS/JUNO network dynamics explorer. Where is the system under stress, where is it resilient, and what intervention would change the trajectory? Bounded exploratory dynamics, not calibrated prediction.

  • CAMS Civilisational Attractor SpaceTool

    3D Plotly visualisation of civilisational trajectories as far-from-equilibrium metabolic networks. Isolate, compare, and rotate the attractor landscape of historical polities.

  • CAMS 3D Attractor SpaceTool

    Three-dimensional phase-space rendering of CAMS civilisational attractors. Coherence, Stress, and Abstraction as axes of systemic state.

  • How Societies CoordinateTool

    The CAMS coordination theory: eight functional nodes, four metrics, and the bond network that determines a society

  • Seshat × CAMS — Cross-Dataset ValidationTool

    Comparing Seshat Social Complexity PC1 against CAMS Λ(t) for Latium Vetus, CE 460–1800. N=14 century-level matched observations. Pearson r = −0.31, Spearman ρ = 0.00.

  • Granger Causality ValidatorTool

    In-browser synthetic validation suite — three-scenario stress test with adjustable lag, noise, and series length. Tests Granger causality in CAMS-structured time series.

  • CAMS · Historical TelescopeTool
  • CAMS · Technical Guide & FAQGuide

    A working reference for the four CAMS apps in this project — what each metric means, where it comes from, how to read the screens, and which questions the framework can and cannot answer.

  • CAMS InstrumentTool

    Guide Adjust {{ playLabel }} {{ t.label }} {{ year }} Adjust ✕ Play speed {{ o.label }} Phase vertical axis {{ o.label }} Trail persistence{{ adjust.persistence }}% Smoothing{{ adjust.smoothing }} yr Bond lattice {{…

  • CAMS Morphospace AtlasTool

    This atlas formalises the morphospace of civilisational types detectable by CAMS. It gives threshold rules, node‑activation profiles, coupling signatures and decision logic so that a blinded case — an organisation,…

  • CAMS Mind ReaderTool

    Read the distributed cognition of any society. The CAMS Mind Reader pipeline computes activation vectors, JUNO bond matrices, and algebraic connectivity to classify how a society is managing — or mismanaging — its…

  • Story MakerTool

    Turn a CAMS era-means dataset into a name-masked story packet: data, a ready-to-use AI prompt, reading rules, and a README.

  • CAMS-CAN DIY Kit — Practitioner & Skeptic Field GuideGuide

    Run CAMS-CAN scoring by hand in a Claude Project, and see the validated reliability evidence behind it. Download the DIY kit — project instructions, schema templates, formulas.

Papers & Validation

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  • ResearchPaper

    Working papers, data tools, and empirical analyses from the Neural Nations Project (CAMS framework).

  • Graph-Theoretic Diagnosis of Societal Collapse: CAMS Validation Across 18 SocietiesPaper

    Empirical validation of the CAMS framework across 18 societies (10–2026 CE): dimensional collapse, node coupling architectures, and crisis signature matching with 12 falsifiable predictions.

  • PR-GAP-2: What We Found — CAMS as a Leading Indicator of Societal RupturePaper

    44 societies, 4,541 society-years, 126 coded rupture events. Leave-one-country-out cross-validation reaches AUC 0.740 for deficit crises once coordination transitions are correctly separated out — with South Africa,…

  • PR-GAP-2: Structural Coordination and Rupture Morphology — Full PaperPaper

    A Retrospective Panel Validation of CAMS Across 44 Societies, 1900–2025, with Robson Gauge Cultural Grounding Results and Cross-System Parsimony Assessment. Full academic paper, August 2026 draft.

  • PR-GAP-2: CAMS as a Leading Indicator of Societal RupturePaper

    44 societies, 125 years, 126 coups/crises/regime transitions. Leave-one-society-out cross-validation reaches AUC 0.740 for deficit crises once coordination transitions are correctly separated out — using only…

  • PR-GAP-2: CAMS Stress as a Leading Indicator of Societal RupturePaper

    The primary panel covers 44 societies, most from 1900 through 2025 (shorter spans where sovereignty began later). CAMS scores are from blinded five-scorer ensemble runs (sets 1–3, 5–7) as specified in the assembly…

  • PR-GAP-2: Findings, Corrections, and Path ForwardPaper

    PR-GAP-2 tested whether CAMS eight-node coordination scores carry genuine forewarning signal for societal ruptures. The panel covers 44 societies from 1900 to 2025. 126 rupture events — coups, civil wars,…

  • PR-GAP-2: Formalism Audit and Path ForwardPaper

    The JUNO × CAMS recomputation across France (1850–2026), Poland (1875–2026), and Hong Kong (1900–2026) — 3,648 node-years — confirms four theses with permutation p < 10⁻⁴ and a 45/45 sensitivity pass rate. This is…

  • PR-GAP-2-NCT-v1: LOSO ResultsPaper

    Three variables were locked before any outcome inspection. The naming convention below resolves the notational collision between node-level Coherence (Cist, used in qist) and aggregate Dream Concentration (Cst,…

  • PR-GAP-2 Robson Gauge — Path-Type Plane (48 Societies)Paper
  • Can We Read the Warning Signs of Societal Collapse?Paper

    A new study tracks eight markers of institutional health across 44 countries and 125 years — and correctly identifies which political crises were genuine structural collapses, and which were simply change.

  • CAMS Temporal Inelasticity — ResultsPaper

    The JUNO v1.2 bond formula factors completely into a product of node-level weights:

  • JUNO v1.2-FinalPaper

    Production specification for JUNO v1.2-Final. Regime classifier, numerical policy, and reference ranges following the 3,002 society-year blind-corpus test of v1.1.

  • Bond Strength — Canonical SpecificationPaper

    Canonical definition of CAMS Bond Strength (v2.3). Single authoritative specification covering formula, scale, interpretation, worked example, and version history.

  • JUNO/CAMS Blind-Analysis Protocol v1.1.1Paper

    Results of the JUNO/CAMS Blind-Analysis Protocol v1.1.1 cognitive-affective extension experiment. 24 societies across 3 blind sets. MRR improved 0.667 → 0.833; calibration gate failed on conflict states.

  • JUNO/CAMS Blind TestPaper

    Open blind-analysis challenge for the JUNO/CAMS framework. Load an anonymised dataset and the protocol prompt into any capable LLM and run the five-stage analysis before the unblinding key is revealed.

  • An accumulating case for CAMSGuide

    CAMS as a possible unification of meaning and metabolism: an eight-pole journey, JUNO v3 signatures, and a separate personality strand. Recognition counts stay behind a closed disclosure.

  • CAMS v1.1 Blind Test — Named Scientific AssessmentPaper

    The CAMS v1.1 blind test validated eight anonymized societies against a mathematical civilizational model. Core formulas — institutional health, bond strength, and cognitive activation — passed at machine precision.…

  • CAMS v1.0.1 — Instrument Test Battery · June 2026Paper

    Full test battery for the CAMS v1.0.1 instrument: corpus verification across 2,532 society-years, JUNO formalism audit, blind scoring control, and pre-registered prospective predictions for 2027–2028.

  • Does a Society Think and Feel? — Testing the CAMS5 Distributed-Cognition ThesisPaper

    Testing the CAMS5 distributed-cognition thesis on 229 society-years of institutional history

  • Ensemble Validation — CAMS v2.3Paper

    CAMS ensemble scoring validation: the Wright Thesis confirmed with qualifications. Variance reduction, SNR improvement, contestation index, and κ-uncertainty bounds — Germany and USA 1880–2026.

  • When a Metaphor Earns Its Keep — Adversarial Validation of the Paladin Rendering Layer over JUNOPaper

    Adversarial audit and controlled rendering protocol for the Paladin interpretive layer over the JUNO eight-node CAMS field: which claims survive as measurement, which survive only as metaphor, and the discipline that…

  • Operator Portability in CAMS — Synthesis & Verification TrailPaper

    Canonical CAMS operators are structurally portable across corporate and national domains but parametrically non-invariant, confirmed by two independent computational audits. The companion Soil-Bond Index (η_soil)…

  • Peer Review & Validation Invite — CAMS-CANPaper

    An open invitation to independently replicate, audit, and try to break CAMS-CAN — the eight-node institutional coordination framework behind Neural Nations.

  • A Core Response to Outright DismissalPaper

    CAMS is not offered as a finished doctrine to be accepted on authority. Why outright dismissal is not a scientific refutation, what the evidence currently supports, and the decisive tests that would settle it either way.

  • A Functional Taxonomy of Human Social Organisation — Kari Freyr McKernPaper

    A formal taxonomy of social coordination architectures grounded in the CAMS framework. Eight recurring coordination problems, 229 polities, eight empirical clusters.

  • Figures — A Functional Taxonomy of Human Social OrganisationPaper
  • Operational Pressure and Symbolic Integration — CAMS v3.2-R Working PaperPaper

    A dyadic scalar for civilisational coordination diagnosis. CAMS v3.2-R Working Paper v1.1, May 2026.

  • The Scale Invariance ExperimentPaper

    Testing whether CAMS Λ(t) is scale-covariant across polity sizes ranging from city-states to modern nation-states. Methodology and results.

  • Thermodynamic JunglePaper

    The thermodynamic framing of civilisational dynamics: energy, entropy, and coordination in complex adaptive societies.

  • CAMS · Deliberative Decay & Lore MisdirectionPaper

    A polity can hollow without being hijacked, and can be hijacked without being hollow. These are two distinct failure modes of the civilisational slow-loop — institutional atrophy on one axis, ideological capture on…

  • Social Cognition in Real Time — Eight Sub-BrainsPaper

    Watch a society think. The eight CAMS nodes rendered as sub-brains, each firing on its ESCH activation σ = A·C·(K−S). Play the timeline and see the distributed institutional mind coordinate, desynchronise, and go…

  • Coupled Cattle, TestedPaper

    A simulation report testing the stampede-as-phase-transition claim: explosive Kuramoto hysteresis and branching-process contagion models. CAMS working note, June 2026.

  • The Meta-Animal Under the MicroscopePaper

    Every great power narrates itself as exceptional. CAMS applies one functional lens to every society — including its own — and refuses narrative any exemption from comparison.

  • Reading Societies Without Their Stories — CAMS Deep-Time TestPaper

    A blind, pre-registered, multi-model test of CAMS on twenty ancient society-windows: 22 scoring passes from Claude, Grok and GPT. Four findings held across all three models; the disagreements show what each model…

  • Organisational Pathologies — CAMS Interim ResultsPaper

    The failures we recognise in families and offices — the boss who stops taking calls, the family that forgets — turn up at national scale too. Interim results: six frozen CAMS signatures on 37 JUNO v3 societies…

  • Canonical Definitions — CAMSPaper

    The authoritative definitions of the four CAMS dimensions (Coherence, Capacity, Stress, Abstraction), Node Value, and the derived quantities computed from them.

  • The Natural History of CivilisationsPaper

    The master essay for the state of the CAMS framework, 8 November 2026: The Human Metasystem, its supporting document, and links to the latest findings, including the November 2026 independent AI replication round.

  • Geopolitics as Group AdaptationPaper

    A working essay reading states as groups adapted to their settings: river valley, coast, continent and steppe. Through the eight CAMS functions it explains why every bloc is sincere and every bloc projects, and why…

  • The Synchronised Slide — JUNO v3 Common-Factor AnalysisPaper

    Global civilisational stress after 2000 in the JUNO v3 record: a common-factor analysis. Kari McKern, ComplexityWorkz, 23 October 2026.

  • CAMS Human–AI Scientific Record, 30 October 2026Paper

    Verification and findings for the CAMS Human–AI Scientific Record package of 30 October 2026: integrity checks, recomputed blind-rater agreement, and the USA 1900–2026 Q series. Kari McKern, ComplexityWorkz.

  • ADVERSARY-02 Results: a pre-registered test of CAMS on Chinese firmsPaper

    CAMS made 15 sealed predictions about China and seven Chinese companies for 2021–2024 before any scoring. Six passed, nine failed, and the model

  • Attractor Coherence, RevisitedPaper

    An old experiment revisited: the Functional Attractor Coherence study (Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Blind Sets 1–6 and a named-country check) re-run on the combined JUNO dataset of 53 societies, 9 November 2026.

Country & Case Studies

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Aha! Maps

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Mindscapes

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Series & Essays

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Diary & About

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  • Research DiarySite

    Ongoing development log for the CAMS framework. Results, revisions, blind tests, theoretical extensions, and validation milestones. Plain language throughout.

  • All PagesSite

    Every page on Neural Nations in one place — tools, datasets, papers, country studies, maps and series — grouped by topic and searchable.

  • Artefact IndexSite

    Complete index of CAMS research artefacts: visualisations, datasets, interactive tools, and analytical reports.

  • GrokSite

    Deep conceptual explainer for the CAMS framework — for researchers and practitioners who want to understand the theoretical foundations.

  • About Kari McKernSite

    Kari McKern — researcher, former public servant, IT specialist, and geopolitical analyst. Creator of CAMS. Based in Sydney, Australia.

  • Contact & CollaborateSite

    Research collaboration, dataset access, peer review, and practitioner enquiries. Three pathways: Scholar, Practitioner, and General Public.

Dataset files

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Every published dataset file, hosted on GitHub. See Datasets for scoring methods and documentation.

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