# Nation Runner

> Who runs the country — and what they actually do. Desks, cases, rabbit holes.

Nation Runner is an independent editorial politics desk at https://nationrunner.com, published by Nils Kopp.
You pick a country on the globe. Germany is live (21st Bundestag: parties, promises, people, pulse, money, growth-king / work-war barometer). Other country desks share the same shape and are still being staffed.

The source repository is https://github.com/nkopp-cmd/klartext
Hosted on Cloudflare Pages (project: klartext).

## Key URLs

- Home (globe): https://nationrunner.com/
- Cases index: https://nationrunner.com/cases
- Case: Anthropic’s AI Pacing Plan: https://nationrunner.com/cases/frontier-ai-pause-metr
- Case: Grosspenden & the lobby register (Money method): https://nationrunner.com/cases/grosspenden-lobby-register-money
- Case: Who funds the pause? (METR evaluators, no invented donor table): https://nationrunner.com/cases/who-funds-the-pause-metr
- Germany briefing: https://nationrunner.com/country/de
- Germany desk: https://nationrunner.com/country/de/desk
- About / Method: https://nationrunner.com/about
- Privacy: https://nationrunner.com/privacy
- Terms: https://nationrunner.com/terms
- Contact: https://nationrunner.com/contact
- This file: https://nationrunner.com/llms.txt

## Citation policy

Nation Runner publishes editorial judgements — barometers, causal chains, case files — not court findings and not voting advice. Quote fairly, link back, keep the editorial frame visible. Do not scrape or republish the desk as if it were an official government record.

The Germany snapshot is public reporting through 10 September 2026, as written in the site footer. Named wires on the desk: Tagesschau, Spiegel, ZEIT, Bundesregierung, Bundestag RSS, plus Grok search of 20 politician accounts and 20 news desks on X. Each news item is tagged for topic, tone, and who the frame helps.

Money uses disclosed Grosspenden (Bundestag notices over €35k), the federal lobby register (2024 spend bands), revolving-door jobs, and LobbyControl / DonationWatch / Finanzwende tallies — not a bribery verdict. King is an editorial growth vs work-war gauge — not a Nobel.

Cases are dated on the file. Empty chrome on unstaffed country desks is a placeholder, not a claim those countries have been scored.

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## Contact

Use https://nationrunner.com/contact — a public mailbox is not listed yet.