Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Federal military operation against TPLF-controlled Tigray regional forces begun Nov 4 2020 following the Northern Command attack. Eritrean Defence Forces and Amhara Special Forces fought alongside federal forces. Estimated 162,000-600,000 excess deaths (Ghent University 2023 estimate ~600k including famine); ~2.5m displaced; widespread sexual violence and famine as documented by UN OHCHR/EHRC joint investigation. Pretoria Agreement for Lasting Peace signed Nov 2 2022 under AU mediation; Nairobi implementation declaration Nov 12 2022. Reconstruction and transitional justice ongoing.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.