Not opinions — factual links: who said or did what, and who it connects to. Every edge is a real event with a source link. This is a small seed of real stories — the base grows with every day processed, and older items move to the Archive automatically.
There is no single official "tension index." But several real, long-running indices measure conflict risk, instability and democratic health — here is what actually exists, who publishes it, and what it measures. World Pulse doesn't pull live numbers from any of these yet, so no per-country scores are shown here — only what each index is and a link to the real source. Hover (or tap, on mobile) a card for a one-line summary; the paragraph underneath has the full explanation.
The map's glow on the Activity view is our own transparent metric, computed live from this site's real, sourced edges — nothing borrowed or implied from the indices above. For each country we count how many edges (international + domestic) it has in the last 7 days, rank all countries with any activity by that count, then split them into quartiles: top 25% glow strongest (tier 1), next 25% weaker (tier 2), next 25% weakest (tier 3), bottom 25% don't glow. It measures how much World Pulse currently has on a country, not real-world tension or stability — with only 74 edges so far, it mostly reflects what we've curated, not the state of the world.
A prototype for tracking who said or did what in world politics, as fact — not opinion — with a link to the original source on every claim.
All 221 countries are on the map and clickable — most just don't have any data yet, and say so honestly rather than faking coverage. 154 real, sourced edges now span Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Africa, going back to January 2026. On top of that there are 13 active Chambers (international organizations, from the UN and NATO to BRICS, the EU, Mercosur, ASEAN, the African Union and the Arab League), 19 full political-system profiles and 16 person profiles (photo + bio from Wikipedia) — all hand-built so far, as a working prototype. Nothing here is an invented connection, date or quote. This is not an automated feed yet: it's a manually curated seed meant to prove out the format before investing in real infrastructure.
A news item belongs to whoever is the actor — the one speaking or acting — not whoever it's about. "Lithuania's president says the drone was Russian" is filed under Lithuania, not Russia, because Lithuania is who's speaking. People are tied to the country they represent (Putin, Lavrov → Russia), so their statements count as that country's international activity.
International — an edge that crosses between two different countries, people, or organizations (a statement, an action, a reaction). Domestic — an edge internal to one country's own politics (an election, a domestic policy move). Domestic items are tagged directly, not inferred.
Items from the last 3 days count as recent and show on the Map/Feed. Anything older moves to the Archive tab automatically — same data, just no longer "current."
Country System pages describe how a government is structured — head of state, legislature, how power changes hands. These are structural facts, not breaking news, and are not individually sourced per line the way news items are; treat them as a snapshot as of when they were written, not a live feed.
Chambers hold real, sourced statements from international organizations (UN, NATO, EU, G7, G20, WTO, BRICS, Mercosur, ASEAN, the African Union, the Arab League, OSCE, International IDEA), shown chronologically. Nothing is written on an organization's behalf that it didn't actually say — unfilled chambers are marked "coming soon" rather than guessed at. The WHO isn't included here since it's a health body rather than a political one.
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