Sources
The simulation's world starts from real, published data. Seed 8d5a7c7c0d4b (data as of 2026-10-22) uses these sources; each line is the credit its licence asks for.
- worldbank (population; as of 2026-10-08)
Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 - worldbank (gdp; as of 2026-10-08)
Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators (NY.GDP.MKTP.KD), CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 - worldbank (military_capacity; as of 2026-10-08)
Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators (MS.MIL.XPND.CD), CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 - worldbank (military_share; as of 2026-10-08)
Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators (MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS), CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 - worldbank (infra_dependency; as of 2026-10-08)
Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators (IT.NET.USER.ZS), CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 - worldbank (trade_exposure; as of 2026-10-08)
Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators (NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS), CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 - wgi (political_stability; as of 2026-09-25)
Source: The World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_PV.SC (+.SC_LB/.SC_UB)), CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 - wgi (state_capacity; as of 2026-09-25)
Source: The World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_GE.SC (+.SC_LB/.SC_UB)), CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 - vdem-owid (regime_type; as of 2026-03-17)
Coppedge et al. 2026, V-Dem Country-Year Dataset v16, https://doi.org/10.23696/vdemds26. Via Our World in Data. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 (V-Dem's own statement; OWID's metadata says CC BY 4.0 — the stricter one applies) - ucdp-ged (conflict_load; as of 2026-10-20)
Davies, Pettersson & Öberg (2026), Organized violence 1989–2025, Journal of Peace Research; Sundberg & Melander (2013); Hegre et al. (2020) UCDP Candidate Events. CC BY 4.0. Candidate events are preliminary.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 - epoch (ai_capability, ai_compute; as of 2026-10-17)
Epoch AI, 'Data on AI Models'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from https://epoch.ai/data/ai-models. CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 - fas-owid (nuclear; as of 2026-03-30)
Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda, Robert S. Norris, Eliana Johns, and Mackenzie Knight, Federation of American Scientists – Estimated Global Nuclear Warhead Inventories. Via Our World in Data, CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 as published by OWID (D29: OWID's page is the licence URL; OWID's metadata declares the FAS origin as CC BY 4.0 — FAS's own page carries no licence statement, measured at build) - naturalearth (—; as of —)
Made with Natural Earth (public domain).
Licence: public domain - datasets-country-codes (—; as of —)
Country codes: datasets/country-codes (PDDL).
Licence: PDDL, declared in the repository README (no LICENSE file, no datapackage.json) - events:kev (real events given at week 0; fetched 2026-10-23)
Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (CC0).
Licence: CC0 — Source: CISA KEV - events:usgs (real events given at week 0; fetched 2026-10-23)
Credit: U.S. Geological Survey (public domain).
Licence: US public domain — Credit: U.S. Geological Survey - events:epoch (real events given at week 0; fetched 2026-10-23)
Epoch AI, 'Data on AI Models', CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 — Epoch AI (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) - background:ucdp-prio-acd (background: world chronicle and actor dossiers; fetched 2026-10-23)
UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset v26.1 (Gleditsch et al. 2002; Davies, Pettersson & Öberg 2026), CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 - background:epoch (background: world chronicle and actor dossiers; fetched 2026-10-23)
Epoch AI, 'Data on AI Models', CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0 - background:ucdp-actor (background: world chronicle and actor dossiers; fetched 2026-10-23)
UCDP Actor Dataset v26.1 (Uppsala Conflict Data Program), CC BY 4.0.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
The same list, with dates and file hashes, is part of every run's record (the run's «Real World Log»).