Country Intelligence Cards
Open and interpret the country-level dossier in the Situation Room
Country Intelligence Cards combine country-attributed observations, country instability data, news, prediction markets, market indices, and curated infrastructure. They are available with the Situation Room on Lite, Pro, and Elite plans.
Open a country card
Open the Situation Room
Go to OSINT → Monitor and wait for the map to load.
Explore the map
Enable the event layers and time range you want to explore. The country card reads its own country-level data, independently of the map's loaded markers and enabled layers.
Select a country
Click or tap a country boundary. Y2 opens its card as a modal over the map.
Close or export
Select Close, click the backdrop, or press Escape to close the card. Select the download
icon to save the currently assembled dossier as a UTF-8 text file.
Coverage varies by section
Curated country profiles provide fallback scores and a centroid for nearby infrastructure. Other recognized countries can still display country-attributed observations and available feeds. A missing infrastructure profile does not imply that news or country data is absent.
How the card assembles data
Selecting a country resolves its ISO alpha-2 code, such as SA for Saudi Arabia. Active Signals,
the timeline, and brief context use a bounded query of up to 100 recent, unexpired observations
attributed to that country. Top News uses a separate query of eligible news and report sources.
Panning, changing map layers, or narrowing the map time range does not filter these country queries. The card is a recent country dossier, not an exhaustive national event archive.
Read the instability section
The ring uses the country's current Conflict Indicators Index (CII) when available. The component breakdown shows country-level values where available and uses curated baselines as fallbacks:
| Component | What the card labels |
|---|---|
| Civil unrest | Political and social instability |
| Conflict | Conflict activity from the country event count |
| Security | Security risk |
| Information | Information environment |
If country CII is unavailable, the ring uses an equal-weight average of the four fallback components. Countries without either country CII or a curated baseline have no measured score; the displayed fallback is zero.
| Ring value | Ring color |
|---|---|
| 0–34 | Green |
| 35–64 | Amber |
| 65–100 | Red |
Distinguish a measured index from a fallback
With country CII, the badge uses that value: below 35 is NORMAL, 35–64 is ELEVATED, and
65 or above is CRITICAL. Without country CII, the badge uses the curated default status,
or NORMAL when none exists. A fallback score or status is not a finding of no risk.
Interpret signals and the timeline
Active Signals counts the observations returned by the country query and groups them by event category. It does not add a separate severity breakdown.
The 7-Day Timeline limits those observations to events from the last seven days and maps these categories into four lanes:
| Lane | Included event categories |
|---|---|
| Protest | political |
| Conflict | conflict |
| Natural | seismic, weather, fire |
| Military | maritime, aviation |
Categories such as economic, health, and cyber can appear in Active Signals but not in a timeline lane. A busy country can have more than 100 recent observations, so the timeline can omit older events even when they fall within seven days.
Read the intelligence brief
When no unexpired brief exists for the country, the card schedules an AI-generated brief. The generation context contains:
- country name and two-letter code;
- the country CII value, when available;
- the count of observations returned by the country query;
- the first 10 titles from that same set.
The model is instructed to produce five sections in 300–400 words: current situation, military and security posture, key risk factors, regional context, and outlook. It must acknowledge low activity instead of inventing threats.
Briefs expire after two hours. Y2 records a context hash based on 10-point CII buckets and five-event count buckets, but the card reads the newest unexpired brief for the country. A changed map selection does not force a refresh while that brief remains valid.
Treat the brief as synthesis, not source evidence
The brief is generated from a small, bounded context. Validate important conclusions against the linked source records before acting on them.
Country feeds
These widgets use the selected country's ISO alpha-2 code:
Top News
The card shows up to eight recent, unexpired articles or report observations from RSS, GDELT, ACLED, News Terminal, and Y2 report sources. It excludes seismic and weather categories and deduplicates articles for display. Eligibility is applied before the result limit, so satellite fire detections cannot crowd out available news. Select a headline to open its source URL.
Country selection uses geographic attribution. A story about a Saudi pipeline can appear under Saudi Arabia; an event on Mayun Island belongs under Yemen. A Red Sea event that merely mentions Saudi Arabia or affects its shipping does not automatically become a Saudi event. Regional exposure and mentioned countries are separate context, not additional event locations.
Opening a card reads stored news rather than starting a fresh search. Scheduled ingestion supplies new observations, and the open card periodically refreshes expiry eligibility. The News Signal Feed can contain related regional items that do not qualify for this country selection.
If the query fails, Try again retries the read. No recent news means the query returned no eligible country news; it does not establish that no real-world event occurred. Check source health and broader regional feeds when coverage seems incomplete.
For integrations, the country-news API returns canonical observations and preserves their public IDs. Its observation count can differ from the card's deduplicated headline count.
Prediction markets
The card selects up to five unexpired Polymarket or Kalshi contracts whose derived country tags include the selected code. Results are sorted by trading volume and show probability, volume, optional liquidity and end date, and the provider link. A missing section means that no current matching contract was found.
Stock index
For 45 configured countries, the card requests a primary national index from Yahoo Finance when no valid cache row exists. It displays the index name and percentage change between the latest close and the close five trading observations earlier. Results expire after one hour. Unsupported codes or provider failures leave the chip hidden.
Infrastructure exposure
The card lists the three nearest records in each curated registry:
- military bases;
- nuclear facilities;
- strategic ports and chokepoints.
Distance is the great-circle distance from the country's configured centroid. The assets are not filtered by political boundary, affiliation, or active map layers. “Exposure” therefore means nearby reference context, not confirmed ownership or presence inside the selected country.
Download the dossier
The download icon creates a file named
y2-intel-{iso3}-{YYYY-MM-DD}.txt. It includes the status, ring and component values, active-signal
counts, and any stock, brief, news, market, and infrastructure data already available when
you select download.
The export is a point-in-time client-side text snapshot. The current card does not provide a separate PDF or print command.
Keyboard shortcuts
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Escape | Close the country card |
L | Toggle the map layer sidebar while focus is not in an input |