The library · The Country Baseline Series
Take stock before you build.
The Country Baseline Series assembles the evidence a nation and its partners need before designing regenerative communities, productive enterprise and the institutions that sustain them. Each volume describes the present with sources, assesses what is possible, and records what remains unknown.
The companion narrative · Editor’s edition, early release
The Wealth of Humanity: Together We Prosper
The oldest wealth we have is each other.
Long before money, the people of the Indus valley came through the ice ages with stone, fire, knowledge and each other. The Wealth of Humanity follows that inheritance across ten thousand years: from the first villages at Mehrgarh and the planned cities of the Indus, through Adam Smith, Elinor Ostrom and the waqf, to five kinds of wealth that money alone cannot measure.
It then brings that history to a country taking stock of itself, drawing on the five volumes of the series, and asks the questions any community must answer before it builds: what do people need, who decides, how do we know it works, and what survives after the founders are gone?
The chapters are nonfiction, and their sources are given in full. A story runs between them, labeled as fiction. By Mark Steven Hewitt, from The Tribernachi Foundation.
The Pakistan series
Five volumes and an introduction
The first Country Baseline Series covers Pakistan. The volumes are in editor’s review and are not yet released.
Nothing in the series or the book describes a community, mandate, partner or financing as existing or secured. The communities they describe are possibilities, not plans already made; choices of site, scale and finance remain with the people and institutions they concern. The books were researched and drafted with the assistance of AI under the author’s direction, and the watercolor plates were made with AI image tools.