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| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Federal Student Aid | A U.S. Department of Education office administering federal grants, loans, loan servicing oversight, borrower tools, and student-aid information. Federal Student Aid has public-service value, but it scores low because it administers a bankruptcy-resistant student-debt system with assigned servicing and default-collection leverage. | U.S. Department of Education student-aid office | High confidence (AI) | United States Department of Education / United States Federal Government | Policy-capture concerns; see Policy Capture. | Developed (AI) | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -9 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | -1 | ||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Hamas | An armed Islamist organization and de facto governing authority in Gaza, scored separately from Palestinian civilians and from the Palestinian Authority because it has distinct command responsibility, ideology, and documented abuses including attacks on civilians and hostage-taking. Hamas scores low because of coercive violence, documented human harm, and person-dependent governance, with weak worker power and poor loss-bearing fidelity reinforcing the negative evaluation. | armed group / de facto authority | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Extensive (AI) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -20 | -30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -2 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Israel Defense Forces | Israel’s military institution, scored separately from the civilian government because its ordinary function is coercive force and its recent conduct has generated extensive war-crimes and civilian-harm findings and allegations. Israel Defense Forces scores low because of coercive violence, documented human harm, and person-dependent governance, with extractive economics and poor loss-bearing fidelity reinforcing the negative evaluation. | military | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -20 | -30 | -7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -4 | -3 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Kingdom of Norway | A high-capacity constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy with strong civil liberties and social protections, but materially complicated by state-linked oil and gas wealth. Kingdom of Norway scores well because governance has stronger accountability than peers and ownership is comparatively aligned, though ecological harm and person-dependent governance still limits the evaluation. | government | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 8 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | -5 | -1 | -1 | -7 | 0 | 0 | -10 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Palestinian Authority | A limited self-government authority in parts of the occupied West Bank, with constrained sovereignty and documented accountability problems including arbitrary detention, torture allegations, and restrictions on expression and assembly. Palestinian Authority scores low because of coercive violence, documented human harm, and person-dependent governance, with extractive economics and centralized governance reinforcing the negative evaluation. | government / limited self-government authority | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -8 | -10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -2 | -2 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | People’s Republic of China | A one-party state with highly centralized political control, pervasive surveillance capacity, severe restrictions on dissent, and documented large-scale abuses against minority groups and civil society. People’s Republic of China scores low because of coercive violence, documented human harm, and ecological harm, with centralized governance and weak stakeholder ownership reinforcing the negative evaluation. | government | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -18 | -24 | -10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -5 | -3 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Republic of Finland | A high-capacity parliamentary democracy with strong civil liberties, public services, and rule-of-law constraints, included as a high-scoring national-government calibration anchor rather than as a shopping recommendation. Republic of Finland scores well because governance has stronger accountability than peers and ownership is comparatively aligned, though person-dependent governance and ecological harm still limits the evaluation. | government | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 8 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | -5 | -1 | -1 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Russian Federation | An authoritarian state with concentrated executive power, severe repression of dissent, pervasive security-service capacity, and ongoing responsibility for aggression and war crimes in Ukraine. Russian Federation scores low because of coercive violence, documented human harm, and ecological harm, with centralized governance and weak stakeholder ownership reinforcing the negative evaluation. | government | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -20 | -30 | -10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -5 | -3 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | State of Israel government | A state with democratic institutions for many citizens but also entrenched occupation, unequal rights across controlled populations, severe Gaza-war harms, and intensive security and surveillance systems. State of Israel government scores low because of coercive violence, documented human harm, and ecological harm, with poor loss-bearing fidelity reinforcing the negative evaluation. | government | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | -20 | -28 | -7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -3 | -5 | -3 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | United Nations | A global intergovernmental institution chartered for peace, rights, and cooperation, with meaningful humanitarian and norm-setting functions but limited democratic control, Security Council veto paralysis, and accountability failures including peacekeeping abuse scandals. United Nations remains weak because of documented human harm, person-dependent governance, and coercive violence, even where the product or service has practical value. | intergovernmental organization | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -5 | -5 | -4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | -2 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | United States federal government | A wealthy constitutional democracy with real electoral and civil-liberties constraints, but also global military reach, carceral and border harms, weak social guarantees, ecological burden, and extensive intelligence and law-enforcement surveillance capacity. United States federal government scores low because of coercive violence, documented human harm, and ecological harm, with weak accountability reinforcing the negative evaluation. | government | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -5 | -14 | -15 | -8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -4 | -3 | |||||
| No vegan or vegetarian badge | Bill Clinton presidency (1993-2001) | A bounded public-leader listing for Bill Clinton's U.S. presidency from 1993 to 2001. It remains under review because reviewers need source-backed public-policy, civil-liberties, labor, welfare, criminal-justice, foreign-policy, corruption, and harm evidence before adapting the group rubric to an individual administration. | public-leader role snapshot | Low confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No vegan or vegetarian badge | George W. Bush presidency (2001-2009) | A bounded public-leader listing for George W. Bush's U.S. presidency from 2001 to 2009. It remains under review because reviewers need source-backed evidence on war, detention, surveillance, disaster response, tax policy, labor, civil liberties, public health, and institutional accountability before assigning any adapted public-leader score. | public-leader role snapshot | Low confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No vegan or vegetarian badge | Barack Obama presidency (2009-2017) | A bounded public-leader listing for Barack Obama's U.S. presidency from 2009 to 2017. It remains under review because reviewers need source-backed evidence on healthcare, labor, financial-crisis response, deportation, drone warfare, surveillance, climate, civil liberties, and institutional accountability before adapting the rubric to the administration. | public-leader role snapshot | Low confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No vegan or vegetarian badge | Donald Trump presidency (2017-2021) | A bounded public-leader listing for Donald Trump's first U.S. presidency from 2017 to 2021. It remains under review because reviewers need source-backed evidence on constitutional norms, immigration, public health, corruption, civil liberties, identity scapegoating, violence, policy capture, and institutional accountability before assigning any adapted public-leader score. | public-leader role snapshot | Low confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No vegan or vegetarian badge | Joe Biden presidency (2021-2025) | A bounded public-leader listing for Joe Biden's U.S. presidency from 2021 to 2025. It remains under review because reviewers need source-backed evidence on labor, climate, infrastructure, student debt, immigration, foreign policy, civil liberties, public health, and institutional accountability before adapting the rubric to the administration. | public-leader role snapshot | Low confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No vegan or vegetarian badge | Donald Trump presidency (2025-present) | A bounded public-leader listing for Donald Trump's current U.S. presidency beginning January 20, 2025. It remains under review because current-office evidence changes quickly as of May 19, 2026, and reviewers need source-backed policy, constitutional, administrative, civil-liberties, corruption, violence, and harm evidence before assigning any adapted public-leader score. | public-leader role snapshot | Low confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No vegan or vegetarian badge | Adolf Hitler public leadership (1933-1945) | A bounded public-leader listing for Adolf Hitler's leadership of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, with 1942 as the genocide and war-power calibration snapshot. It remains under review as an individual entry because Nazi Germany already anchors the group-level floor, while this role snapshot needs sourced linkage between personal leadership, ideology, state violence, genocide, war, and institutional control. | public-leader role snapshot | Low confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No vegan or vegetarian badge | M. K. Gandhi public leadership (1930) | A bounded public-leader listing for Mohandas K. Gandhi's anti-colonial public leadership around the Salt March and Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930. It remains under review because reviewers need source-backed evidence on nonviolent resistance, mass-movement governance, caste, gender, race, religious politics, and the use or rejection of coercive violence before adapting the group rubric to the individual role. | public-leader role snapshot | Low confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) |