Appendix: Model Pseudocode Skeleton
def compute_NPE(country_corpus):
dim = {}
dim['will'] = agency_density(corpus) * long_horizon_weight(corpus)
dim['sharp'] = rebound_elasticity(corpus, negative_events)
dim['quiet'] = (1 / tone_volatility(corpus)) * frame_consistency(corpus)
dim['confident'] = bind_strength(tech_industry_words, 'we')
dim['cohesive'] = 1 - in_group_hostility(corpus) + institutional_trust(corpus)
dim['meaning'] = neologism_rate(corpus) * meaning_frame_innovation(corpus)
return normalize(PCA(dim))
# Output: national NPE vector + decay rate + security stress-test scenarios

This is not the engineering of metaphysics. It is the translation of the ancient dictum that the great affairs of state are sacrifice and war into the observable engineering language of the artificial-intelligence era.