> Quantify things like political stability, information availability, cultural problems, etc Good luck. It's a worthy goal, but we are very far away from being

> Quantify things like political stability, information availability, cultural problems, etc Good luck. It's a worthy goal, but we are very far away from being able to do this in a rigorous fashion. There is a reason academia has the distinctions of "hard science", "soft science", and "not science". Cultural and political dynamics, by their inherent nature, might never be objectively quantified.