Watchful State
§ The Map

What the state scrutinises itself about

276 topics roll into 59 superclusters into 11 families. The centre of gravity isn’t the biggest family but the hottest: Safeguarding & Harm Response burns at 71% severe, while Government Control Weaknesses owns the breadth, touching all 50 bodies. Select any family — on the plot or the list — for its live profile; the full multi-parent web lives in the Explorer.

The eleven families

Positioned by institutional reach against mean severity; bubble = report volume, colour = severity. Click a bubble or a row to open its live profile.

Severity × institutional reach
3.23.43.63.8440444850institutional reach — bodies (of 50)mean severitySafeguarding & Harm ResponsePublic IntegrityGovernment ControlProgram Governance & Value

Up-and-left = hot but narrow; bottom-right = broad but milder.

Bar = mean severity (of 5). Click for topics, superclusters and quotes pulled live.

The hottest mid-level themes

Below the families sit the superclusters. Ranked by mean severity (reports ≥15) — the specific fronts where findings run gravest. Click through to the family.

Hottest superclusters — mean severity

The universal failure modes

A handful of topics recur across almost every one of the 50 bodies — the connective tissue of the whole corpus. Click one for its live detail and cross-body quotes.

Topics by institutional reach — of 50 bodies