{
  "id": "wounded-nation.damaged",
  "term": "wounded nation",
  "sense": "damaged",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 20,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A collective self reporting that a sudden change or a drift moved its parameters to a wall or over it, felt as loss by members it did not touch.",
  "folk_gloss": "a country felt to be in collective pain after an attack, loss or hardship",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "belonging.member",
      "report.information",
      "sudden.temporal",
      "change.process",
      "drift.aimless",
      "motion.movement",
      "parameter.condition",
      "wall.range-end",
      "feel.sensory",
      "loss.economic",
      "member.social",
      "touch.together"
    ],
    "interaction": "Belonging makes a crossing suffered by some members read as suffered by the whole; the self model then reports its own window as damaged, and members who lost nothing report the loss.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "pain held by those not hit",
      "a wall crossing read as done to the whole"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "After the September 11, 2001 attacks, commentators across the political spectrum described the United States as a wounded nation.",
      "domain": "politics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "sense-of-grievance.collective",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a wounded nation reports damage; grievance adds that another set it wrongly"
    },
    {
      "id": "national-pride.collective",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the same group self-read, near a wall rather than far from it"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "country is hurting",
    "the country is hurting",
    "the nation is hurting",
    "wounded nation",
    "wounded nations"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wounded-nation.damaged"
}