In short, 2025 was a difficult year. New Zealand often scores well or shows improvement on global indexes, but look closer to home and the devil is in the detail. To borrow a phrase from old school reports: Shows great potential but needs to try harder.



I love how the image is just them pointing at New Zealand on the map to prove its there.
Trying to get other cartographers to take the hint
The other cartographers: Ooooooohhhhhhhhhh, that’s what New Zealand looks like…
First we have to convince them exists XD they keep leaving us off maps
I’m not good at linking communities on mobile but. MapsWithoutNZ on lemmy.nz (or Reddit, for far far far more examples, because IT KEEPS HAPPENING)