Governments & Institutions

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

AFL-CIO

The AFL-CIO is a federation of 60 national and international labor unions representing 12.5 million workers. It serves as the political voice of organ...

African Development Bank

The African Development Bank is the premier multilateral development finance institution for Africa, established in 1964. Unlike other regional develo...

African Development Bank

African Union

The African Union is Africa's continental organization of 55 member states, successor to the Organisation of African Unity (1963-2002). Despite having...

AICPA

AICPA is the national professional organization for CPAs in the United States, representing ~431,000 members (66% of licensed CPAs). Unlike ABA or AMA...

American Bar Association

The ABA is the largest voluntary professional association for lawyers in the United States, founded 1878. Despite representing only 12-15% of American...

American Medical Association

The AMA is the largest professional association of physicians in the United States - but only 15% of U.S. doctors are actually members (down from 75%...

American Psychological Association

APA is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States with 133,000+ members. It holds exclusive federal ac...

Argentina

ASEAN

ASEAN is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising 10 Southeast Asian countries, founded in 1967. Unlike the EU, ASEAN operates on principl...

ASEAN Secretariat

The ASEAN Secretariat is the administrative arm of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, with the smallest budget of any major regional organiza...

Asian Development Bank

The ADB is Asia's regional multilateral development bank, founded in 1966 with Japan and US as co-dominant shareholders (15.6% voting power each). Des...

Asian Development Bank

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

AIIB is a China-led multilateral development bank launched in 2016 with $100 billion in authorized capital. It was created partly as an alternative to...

AUKUS (Australia-UK-US Security Partnership)

Australia

Austria

BaFin

BaFin's Wirecard failure is a textbook case of immune system misdirection. When the Financial Times and short-sellers flagged €1.9 billion in phantom...

Banco de México

Twelve consecutive rate cuts. From 11% to 7% in fifteen months. Banco de México has executed one of the most aggressive easing cycles in emerging mark...

Bank for International Settlements

Bank of Canada

November 2022: the Bank of Canada reported its first-ever financial loss—C$522 million in a single quarter. The culprit was quantitative easing deploy...

Bank of England

The BoE is the world's second-oldest central bank (founded 1694) and model for modern central banking. Granted operational independence in 1997, it se...

Bank of Japan

The Bank of Japan is the world's most interventionist major central bank, having maintained near-zero or negative interest rates for 25+ years and acc...

Bank of Japan

The BoJ is the world's only central bank to own equities at scale, holding ~7% of Japan's entire stock market value. After three 'Lost Decades' fighti...

Bank of Korea

December 2025: the won hit 1,472 per dollar—the weakest since March 1998, when the Asian Financial Crisis was dismembering Korean conglomerates. Gover...

Bavaria

Bavaria functions like a mature beech forest—an ecosystem where the tallest trees (BMW, Siemens, Allianz) don't dominate through shade but sustain a d...

Belgium

Brazil

Brazil operates as a federal presidential republic with 26 states and a Federal District. As Latin America's largest economy and most populous nation,...

California

California is the sea otter of American governance—a keystone species whose choices reshape entire ecosystems far beyond its borders. When California...

Canada

Central Intelligence Agency

The CIA has two functions that fight each other: sensing (intelligence analysis) and acting (covert operations). The Iraq WMD failure demonstrated wha...

CFA Institute

CFA Institute administers the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, the 'gold standard' credential for investment professionals. With 200,000+ char...

CFTC

The CFTC regulates derivatives markets—futures, swaps, and commodity derivatives—overseeing $500+ trillion in notional value with only ~700 employees...

Chile

China

Party above state, parallel to state, enmeshed in every level of state. Under Xi Jinping, the idea of China converging toward liberal systems is "thor...

CME Group

On November 28, 2025, a cooling system failure at a single Illinois data center halted 90% of global derivatives trading. CME Group's systems went dow...

Colombia

Competition and Markets Authority

The Competition and Markets Authority is the principal competition regulator in the United Kingdom. Formed in 2014 by merging the Competition Commissi...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The CFPB was created by Dodd-Frank (2010) with a unique dual-insulation funding mechanism: it draws from Federal Reserve 'combined earnings' rather th...

Czech Republic

Denmark

DTCC

DTCC is the backbone of US financial markets, processing $2.5 quadrillion ($2,500 trillion) in securities transactions annually. It settles virtually...

Egypt

Environmental Protection Agency

The EPA is the principal U.S. federal agency for environmental protection. With approximately 15,000 employees and a $9 billion budget (less than half...

ESMA

December 2025: crypto service providers without MiCA authorization received ESMA's final warning—activate wind-down plans or face enforcement. The tra...

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

The EBRD is unique among MDBs: founded in 1991 to promote market economies in former communist states, with explicit political conditionality requirin...

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

EBRD is a unique development bank with a democracy mandate written into its founding treaty. Created in 1991 to support post-Soviet transition, it has...

European Central Bank

The ECB is the central bank for the eurozone's 20 member states, responsible for monetary policy, euro stability, and banking supervision. Established...

European Central Bank

The ECB sets monetary policy for the eurozone's 350+ million people across 20 countries. Unlike national central banks, it must coordinate 20 differen...

European Commission

The European Commission is a siphonophore—a colonial organism where genetically identical individuals specialize into feeding, defense, and reproducti...

European Commission DG COMP

DG Competition is the European Commission's directorate enforcing EU competition law across 27 member states, making it one of the world's most powerf...

European Court of Human Rights

December 2025: Russia's Supreme Court declared the European Convention on Human Rights void within Russian territory. This completed what began in Mar...

European Court of Justice

Sixty percent of cases arrive as questions, not disputes. A national court in Lisbon or Helsinki encounters EU law it cannot interpret, stops proceedi...

European Medicines Agency

The EMA coordinates drug approvals across the European Union's 27 member states through centralized procedures. Established 1995 in London, relocated...

European Union

Eighty percent. That's how often the EU Council of Ministers achieved consensus from 2010 to 2024, despite qualified majority voting being available f...

FAA

The FAA regulates all aspects of civil aviation in the United States, from aircraft certification to air traffic control to pilot licensing. With over...

FDIC

Before FDIC existed, bank failures were contagious. Between 1930 and 1933, over 9,000 banks failed—not because they were all insolvent, but because de...

Federal Communications Commission

The FCC regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. With only 1,512 employees overseeing a...

Federal Reserve System

In spring 2025, when President Trump publicly questioned Fed decisions and attempted to fire Governor Lisa Cook, something measurable happened: inflat...

Federal Security Service (FSB)

The FSB is an autoimmune system that attacks its own body's cells. Navalny was shadowed on 30+ flights over three years before being poisoned with Nov...

Federal Trade Commission

The FTC embodies the paradox of American regulatory capacity: immense statutory authority that oscillates between aggressive enforcement and strategic...

Financial Conduct Authority

£176 million in fines during 2024—a 230% increase from the previous year. 1,456 firms lost their authorization to operate. The Financial Conduct Autho...

Financial Stability Board

The FSB is the immune system's signaling network without its killer cells. Born from the 2008 crisis wreckage, the G20 created a body to coordinate gl...

Finland

FINRA

FINRA is a regulatory chimera: a private corporation wielding governmental powers without governmental constraints. It oversees 3,300+ broker-dealers...

Fitch Ratings

Fitch is the spare tire of global credit ratings—essential when you need a third opinion, but never the primary choice. S&P and Moody's each command ~...

Florida

Food and Drug Administration

The FDA regulates food safety, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, cosmetics, and tobacco products - about 25% of all consumer spending in the US. As th...

France

France operates as a semi-presidential republic with a unique dual executive - both a directly elected President and a Prime Minister accountable to P...

Germany

Ordoliberalism—the word sounds academic, but it explains why Germany's far-right AfD, founded by economists in 2014, claims the same market-order trad...

GIC Private Limited (Government of Singapore Investment Corporation)

Government Pension Fund Global (Norges Bank Investment Management)

Greater London Authority

London is a coral reef—a living structure that took centuries to build and now supports an entire ecosystem of financial species that couldn't survive...

Greece

Green Climate Fund

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

HKEX is a placenta—connecting two financial circulatory systems that cannot safely merge directly. On one side, mainland China with capital controls a...

Hong Kong Monetary Authority

July 2025: the Hong Kong dollar touched 7.85—the weak-side boundary. The HKMA sold $2.55 billion to defend the peg. This intervention is not discretio...

Hong Kong Stock Exchange

IAEA

ICSID

December 2025: A UAE investor filed a $28.9 billion claim against Guinea over a mining dispute. A German food company sought €90 million from China. A...

IEEE

IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization with 485,000+ members, dominating standards for networking (WiFi 802.11, Ethernet 802....

India

Fifty percent of the world's digital transactions. Not 5%, not 15%—half of all real-time digital payments globally flow through India's UPI system. In...

Indonesia

Inter-American Development Bank

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

International Court of Justice

The ICJ is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, settling disputes between states and issuing advisory opinions. Only 73 of 193 UN membe...

International Criminal Court

The ICC is the world's only permanent international court for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and aggression. In 25 years: only 10-11 c...

International Monetary Fund

The IMF is the central institution of the international monetary system, providing financial assistance to countries in crisis and surveillance of glo...

International Organization for Standardization

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Sixty-eight governments in 78 years. Average tenure: 13 months. The Italian Republic has churned through more cabinets than any comparable democracy—n...

Japan

Sixty to seventy percent. That's how much of their project timeline Japanese companies dedicate to consensus-building before a single implementation s...

London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange had its worst IPO year in three decades in 2025—just £184 million raised through September. Amsterdam now captures more Euro...

Malaysia

Mercosur

Mercosur is South America's customs union of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay (Venezuela suspended since 2017). Despite being a 'customs union...

Mexico

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Most central banks adjust interest rates. Singapore adjusts the exchange rate. This isn't idiosyncrasy—it's niche-specialization. When imports constit...

Moody's

Moody's is a gatekeeper paid by those it gates. The company rates $6 trillion of debt annually, and that rating determines whether pension funds can b...

Mossad

Mossad's June 2025 'Operation Red Wedding' killed 30 Iranian generals in minutes. A bomb placed two months earlier in a Tehran guesthouse assassinated...

NASDAQ

February 8, 1971: cathode-ray terminals flickered to life displaying bid and ask prices for over-the-counter securities. Trades still happened by tele...

National Labor Relations Board

The NLRB enforces US labor law under the National Labor Relations Act (1935), overseeing union elections and investigating unfair labor practices. Des...

Netherlands

New York City

New York City is an ant colony operating at human scale—8.3 million organisms packed into 302 square miles, differentiated into specialized castes (fi...

New York Stock Exchange

Dark pools now execute more trades than the NYSE. In the last quarter of 2024, public exchanges handled less than half of all US stock trades for the...

New York Stock Exchange

New Zealand

Nigeria

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Norway

OCC

The OCC's real power isn't bank supervision—it's definitional control over what counts as a 'bank.' National bank charters come with federal preemptio...

OECD

The OECD publishes 500 reports annually. None of them are binding. This is the organization's defining feature: it wields influence without enforcemen...

Ontario

OPEC

OPEC is a cartel of 13 oil-producing nations that attempts to coordinate petroleum production to influence global oil prices. Founded in 1960 by Iran,...

OSHA

OSHA is the federal agency responsible for workplace safety in the United States, covering 130 million workers at 8 million worksites. Established 197...

Pakistan

People's Bank of China

The PBoC is the central bank of China, managing the world's second-largest economy and maintaining the world's largest foreign exchange reserves ($3.3...

People's Bank of China

The PBoC is China's central bank, managing monetary policy, exchange rates, and a $3.2 trillion foreign reserve stockpile. Unlike Western central bank...

Philippines

PhRMA

PhRMA is the lobbying arm of the pharmaceutical industry, representing 31 major drug manufacturers. It has spent over $551 million on lobbying since 1...

Poland

Portugal

Prudential Regulation Authority

The PRA exists because the FSA tried to do everything and failed at the critical moment. When Northern Rock collapsed in 2007—the first UK bank run in...

Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia

Qatar

Reserve Bank of Australia

The RBA is Australia's central bank, managing an economy that went 28+ years without recession (1991-2020) primarily by riding China's commodity super...

Reserve Bank of India

The RBI is India's central bank, managing the world's fifth-largest economy and overseeing a banking system where 70% of assets are in government-owne...

Russia

S&P Global

S&P Global is one of three dominant credit rating agencies (with Moody's and Fitch), whose ratings determine borrowing costs for $100+ trillion in glo...

San Francisco

San Francisco is a cautionary tale in positive feedback loops—a 47-square-mile peninsula where every success intensifies conditions for failure. The c...

Saudi Arabia

Scotland

Scotland is a lichen—two distinct organisms fused into something that functions as one but could, theoretically, survive apart. The fungal partner (En...

Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

MI6's oversight crisis reveals a paradox: as the intelligence budget grew by £3 billion since 2013, the committee watching it was forced to shrink. Th...

Securities and Exchange Commission

The SEC is the primary U.S. regulator of securities markets, responsible for protecting investors, maintaining fair and efficient markets, and facilit...

Shanghai

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Shanghai Stock Exchange

The Shanghai Stock Exchange is a greenhouse—a controlled environment where the state determines which companies grow. CSRC decides who lists, when the...

Shenzhen

Shenzhen is bamboo: a 1980 fishing village that achieved the fastest urban growth in human history by combining biological principles—primary successi...

Singapore

S$2 million annually. That's what Singapore pays its Prime Minister—among the world's highest government salaries—based on explicit policy that compet...

South Africa

South Korea

Spain

Sweden

SWIFT

SWIFT is the world's premier financial messaging network, connecting 11,500+ banking organizations across 235+ countries, processing ~45 million messa...

Swiss National Bank

The SNB is Switzerland's central bank, unique for its massive balance sheet (~100% of GDP), $172B in US equity holdings, publicly traded shares, and t...

Switzerland

Taiwan

Texas

Texas operates as the American economy's most successful invasive species—a regulatory environment so optimized for corporate relocation that it has f...

Thailand

Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Tokyo is the world's largest proof that human cities can function like insect colonies—37 million people in the greater metropolitan area, yet trains...

Turkey

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business lobbying organization, spending more on lobbying than any other entity in America. From 1...

UK Competition and Markets Authority

The Competition and Markets Authority is the UK's primary competition and consumer protection regulator, formed in 2013 by merging the Office of Fair...

UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

The MHRA became the UK's standalone drug regulator post-Brexit, having previously operated as part of the EU's centralized system. It gained global at...

UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

No constitutional court can strike down Acts of Parliament. Unlike virtually every other democracy, the UK Supreme Court has no power to overrule the...

United Nations

Russia: 129 vetoes. United States: 89 (51 specifically protecting Israel). United Kingdom: 29. China: 19. France: 16. As of September 2025, the Securi...

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

United States

Fifty state-level bills addressing federal-state power balance were introduced in the first two months of 2025 alone. The federal budget runs a $1.8 t...

US Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission enforces antitrust and consumer protection laws in the United States, sharing jurisdiction with the Department of Justice...

US Food and Drug Administration

The FDA regulates drugs, biologics, medical devices, food safety, and cosmetics—affecting roughly 25% of the US economy. Established 1906 following Th...

Vietnam

World Bank

The World Bank is the world's largest multilateral development lender, providing financing and technical assistance to developing countries. Founded a...

World Customs Organization

World Health Organization

The WHO is the UN specialized agency for international public health, with 194 member states. It sets international health standards, monitors disease...

World Trade Organization

WTO Appellate Body

The WTO Appellate Body was the final arbiter of international trade disputes until December 11, 2019, when US blocking of all appointments killed it....