Every flag holds 1,000,000 dots. Each dot is $1 and counts as one vote for the wealth of that people. No limit on how many you buy.
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A nation is a large group of people who share a common culture, language, history and territory. Every month they compete on one question: who showed up?
The standings measure dots bought — how many people turned out for a flag this month, and what they were willing to put behind it. A small people with a loud diaspora beats a large quiet one. That is the whole game.
Income and net worth are a footnote here, kept on the back of each flag for reference only. They never move the standings.
Reference income figures shown on a flag come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey detailed-ancestry tables. Figures that could not be traced to a Census or Pew table are marked unverified and are not used for ranking.
Country flags run alongside peoples and ancestries. A Nigerian-American can cast dots for the United States, for Nigerian and for Pan-African in the same month — all three are real, and all three count separately.
So the totals across flags add up to more than the number of people playing. Filter by group type to see countries, ancestries, broad categories or heritage banners on their own.
Groups tied to a country use that country's flag. Peoples without a state — Pan-African, Indigenous, Roma, Kurdish and others — use their recognised heritage banner. Broad census categories use a designed banner, not an official flag.