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South Korea
#3 of 18 by healthy life years
Current employee: Lee Jae Myung
Official government site โโ๏ธ Military : ๐งช Trials Ratio
235.8:1
For every $1 spent finding out which medicines work, South Korea spends $236 on military.
๐ฎ Game Metrics
โค๏ธ Healthy Life Years (HALE)
73.1
Global avg: ยท Target:
Needs +11.9 years to hit treaty target
๐ฐ GDP Per Capita
$32.4K
Median income: $17.1K
World Bank 2023
๐ฃ Military vs ๐งช Medicine
๐ฃ Military Spending$47B/yr
๐งช Clinical Trials$201M/yr
Scaled to the same axis as military โ the bar is 0.42% of military spending
๐งฌ Total Medical Research$3B/yr
๐ฅ Health Spending / Capita$3.9K
๐ Spending Profile
๐ฅ
Health Spending/capita
$3.9K
OECD 2023
โณ
Life Expectancy
83.7 yrs
WHO 2023
โ๏ธ
Military : Trials Ratio
236:1
Weapons per $1 of government clinical trials
๐ฌ
Military : Research Ratio
15.8:1
Weapons per $1 of total government medical research
๐งฌ
Gov Medical Research/yr
$3B
Total research budget (basic science + overhead + admin)
KHIDI + NRF health research ~KRW 4T โ๐งช
Gov Clinical Trials/yr
$201M
Actual interventional trials, not total research overhead
Estimated: ~6.7% of $3B medical research budget โ๐ณ
Debt
54% of GDP
IMF 2024
๐ Body Count
โข๏ธ
Nuclear Warheads
0
FAS
๐ฅ Countries Bombed
Vietnam
๐ Death Ledger
Sourced regime and conflict entries summed into the body-count total.
Vietnam massacres by South Korean forces
Documented minimum for massacres by South Korean troops in Vietnam.
Period
1964โ1973
Deaths
9,000
documented-minimum
โ๏ธ Justice & Domestic
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Homicide Rate /100K
0.6
UNODC 2023
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Murders Solved
97%
KNPA 2023
๐ณ๏ธ South Korea Politician Alignment
Every politician's votes scored against what citizens actually want via pairwise comparison. The gap between what they vote for and what you'd vote for, expressed as a single number.
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South Korea spends $47B/yr on military and $201M/yr testing which medicines work. The 1% Treaty redirects 1% of the first number to the second. The deposit funds the campaign to make it happen.