Chaunchnau coordinate

In, The Chaunchnau coordinate, also referred to as the Four-factor coordinate, and abbreviated as CC or 4C, is a categorization system designed to summarize the overall geopolitical posture of a sovereign state, dependency, or other state-like socio-political entity. The coordinate and its analysis system is named for Ianto Chaunchnau, an Ordrish statistician and sociologist.

The coordinate is determined on a set of four s. The scales, labelled A through D, correspond to the following concepts: the government's posture on the, the entity's , the entity's level of engagement with the , and the general means of utilized by the entity. The scales themselves are on a 0-10 scale, with a value of 0 representing 'closedness' and a value of 10 representing 'openness'. In traditional notation of the Chauchnau coordinate, the A value represents the entity along an x-axis of a graph, while an average is taken of the subsequent three values, which represents the overall openness of the nation. Alternate notations places the A and B values into an average, while another model, the 'modular Chaunchnau', has four different graphs using each of the values as the X axis on a graph, while averaging out the rest.

The Chaunchnau coordinate system was proposed to the World Forum by Ianto Chaunchnau in 1993 as a means of determining the overall 'temperature' of global geopolitics in as simple of terms as possible. This generally emerged as a response to the rapid differentiation in political and economic theories being put into practice in the latter half of the 20th Century, especially in Chaunchnau's native Ordrey, which struggled to restore normalized relations with a number of its surrounding nations as a result of the perceived 'aberrant' nature of the country's Noyonist politics. As a result, the CC system was meant to focus more on 'real factors' in what a given geopolitical entity's behavior is at a given recording.

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The system has come under some degree of controversy for its implications, as those typically associated with conservative or traditionalist politics tend to view it as predisposing those who utilize the measure towards perceiving non-progressive politics as 'regressive' rather than simply 'closed'. It also draws criticism from other statisticians for what may be thought of as attempting to 'objectify the subjective', with such detractors proposing that entities should be classified as acting within a generalized range of posture. Chaunchnau themselves has gone on to state that this was not so much an attempt to make a 'singular, perfect mathematical representation of entities in geopolitics', but rather, 'a reliable and accurate generalization that can be utilized by policymakers and everyday people alike...to look more closely at the actual behavior of players on the world stage beyond simple ideological lines.' Following this interview, Chaunchnau has suggested it be utilized as part of a wider 'suite' of geopolitical measures, primarily the, , and models to provide a clear picture of actual conditions within a given entity beyond monetary measures such as  or.