General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Security of private property rights — formal recognition, expropriation risk, titling systems.
CECOT is the 166-hectare maximum-security prison complex in Tecoluca (San Vicente department) inaugurated 31 Jan 2023 and operational since 24 Feb 2023. Designed for 40,000 inmates in eight pavilions with 32 cells each (roughly 100 inmates per cell), it is the largest prison in the Americas and a centrepiece of Plan Control Territorial Phase VII. CECOT holds alleged MS-13 and Barrio 18 members detained under the régimen de excepción; detainees are kept incommunicado with minimal outside communication, no family visits, and limited judicial review. Government staging (head-shaven mass transfers filmed for state media) became a defining image of Bukele-era security policy. CPI and CPT raised repeated concerns about conditions; Cristosal documented 300+ in-custody deaths across the prison system through 2024. Nominal construction cost $115m.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.