Bump to v0.19.0: region-level ownership (Part 1 of #16 )

Version 0.19.0 + changelog. Breaking: pre-v0.19 saved games are dropped (territory now holds region keys, not ISO_A3 codes) — deploy wipes the history-data volume.
Tests: region-key contract (map rewrite + regions loader + engine) (v0.19 P1 of #16 )
2026-10-14 09:15:33 +00:00 · 2026-10-14 09:14:24 +00:00 · 2026-10-14 09:14:17 +00:00 · 2026-10-14 09:14:10 +00:00 · 2026-10-14 08:32:36 +00:00 · 2026-10-14 08:32:36 +00:00
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 All notable changes to **History** are listed here, newest first.

+## v0.19.0 — 2026-10-14 09:14
+- **Region-level ownership foundation (Part 1 of #16): internal territory ownership flips from whole countries to individual sub-regions.** Previously a nation owned *whole countries* (a `territory` list of ISO_A3 codes) and every sub-region of a country shared the parent's color, so a single region could never change owner independently. Now each owned sub-region is addressed by a stable **region key** — `<name-slug>-<4char>`, e.g. `moselle-rygy`, `ain-lqtt`, `western-alun` — generated deterministically by `scripts/build-region-keys.mjs` into `public/region-keys.json` (**1,796 unique keys** over the 1,796 sub-regions). A key is a slug of the region's name (NFKD, diacritics stripped, lowercased, non-alphanumerics → `-`) plus a 4-character hash of the feature's stable id, salted on within-country name collisions, so it is stable, human-readable, and globally unique (a "western" collision group yields `western-alun` / `western-qwvr` / `western-adsp` / …; an accented name like Shkodër becomes `shkoder-gmnr`).
+- **The map, the model, and the LLM all now reason in region keys.** `Nation.territory` and the `RegionMap` are keyed by region key; the choropleth resolves each sub-region's owner by its stamped `properties.regionKey` (never the repacked numeric feature `id`, never the raw sub-region id — the #6 guard, now region-keyed). A new `server/regions.ts` (turf-free) loads the manifest + geo once at boot and **expands each nation's country list to all its sub-regions' keys at game creation**, so a fresh game shows every sub-region in its owner's color — visually identical to the old whole-country choropleth, but each sub-region is now individually addressable. The LLM prompt gains a `regions` reference table (region key → "<name> (parent ISO_A3)"), and `applyTurnResult` ignores any territory key not in the valid set, so a hallucinated key can't corrupt ownership.
+- **The dossier shows region names.** NationPanel's territory chips display each sub-region's human name (e.g. "Ain", "Wales", "Moselle") with the raw key in the tooltip / data attribute, instead of bare codes.
+- **⚠ Breaking — pre-v0.19 saved games are dropped.** The `territory` field's meaning changed from ISO_A3 country codes to region keys, so a game saved before this version can't be read by it. Deploy runs `docker compose down -v` (dropping the `history-data` volume) then `up -d --build`; there is no migration — start fresh after deploying.
+- **Supersedes the abandoned `feat/sub-region-territory` branch**, which prototyped raw feature-id keys (`DEU-03`); this version uses the slugged, human-readable key scheme instead.
+- **Verification.** Typecheck, lint, and the unit suite (now **71 tests across 7 files**: +`server/regions.test.ts`, a rewritten `server/map.test.ts`, +2 in `engine.test.ts`) all pass; the production build is clean. The deterministic `LLM_STUB` and the format-agnostic e2e suite (legend/stats/dates) are unchanged. **#16 stays open** — P2 (LLM tools / function-calling for reliable region ops) and the no-man's-land rename/split/merge phases follow.
+
+## v0.18.0 — 2026-10-13 18:54
+- **Fixed a stale-owner display bug: the region hover tooltip and the dossier "Selected" label no longer print the static parent-country code (e.g. "FRA").** The GeoJSON `properties.parent` is a *static geographic-origin* field that never updates when a country is taken, yet it was rendered in the hover tooltip (as a sub-line and as a title fallback) and in the dossier's `Selected:` label (as a `(FRA)` suffix) — so a sub-region of a transferred country still displayed the old country's code next to the (correct) new owner. The tooltip now shows only the region name + the live owner chip (from the RegionMap) + key stats, and the dossier label shows only the region name. Ownership resolution still keys on `properties.parent` (unchanged) — only the display of it was removed.
+
+## v0.17.0 — 2026-10-13 15:13
+- **Filled the no-one's-land left between merged sub-regions (Part of #16).** The v0.14 coarsening's boolean dissolves left slivers of each country's landmass inside no region — measured at **≈ 3.90M km² globally** (the union of a country's regions covered only ~98% of its landmass). The new `scripts/fill-gaps.mjs` (`npm run fill:regions`) closes them: per country it computes the gap (`landmass − union(its regions)`, `@turf/difference`+`union`), drops slivers < **25 km²** (66,637 of them — sub-pixel on the map), and assigns each remaining piece to the **nearest region** (centroid distance) as an appended MultiPolygon part. **2,696,811 km²** of no-one's-land was filled into **1,575 regions** (+6,768 parts: 5,026 → 11,794), leaving **63,889 km²** residual (**98.4% reduction** — the rest is coastline digitization fuzz and 14 tiny border-band overlap artifacts, see below). The named "messy" regions absorb their surroundings: **SI-048 Kočevje (SVN) 16,692 → 19,816 km² (57 → 90 parts)**, **MK-36 Kavadarci (MKD) 21,297 → 25,190 km² (8 → 17)**, **AZ-AGC Ağcabədi (AZE) 18,657 → 32,065 km² (7 → 14)**; the biggest single fills are **AQ-X01~ (Antarctica) +195,351 km²**, **CA-NU (Nunavut) +143,447**, **AQ-X02~ +142,615**, **CL-MA (Magallanes) +81,806**, **US-AK (Alaska) +63,830**, **CA-NT (NWT) +46,333**, **GL-UO (Kommuneqarfiup) +41,971**, **RU-KAM (Kamchatka) +41,911**.
+- **Correct, not just greedy: clipping, hole policy, dedup.** Each gap piece is clipped sequentially against (a) all *other countries'* regions, (b) its own country's existing regions, and (c) pieces already appended (bbox-touching) — so a piece straddling a border is split, and no piece can double-cover another region's area (**1,149,841 km² of foreign overhang removed** this way; 0 clip failures). **FR-57 Moselle (FRA) gains nothing on purpose**: its apparent gap was a cross-border phantom consumed by the neighbor clip — correct behavior. Holes follow a keep-or-drop policy: a gap hole whose centroid matches a **pre-existing hole** (within 10 km) or lies inside another country's landmass is kept, otherwise it's a phantom and dropped — so the **KZ-KZY Aral hole survives** (5,858 km² planar, the file's only hole; 5,875 km² of water kept open). A global dedup set guarantees each cleaned piece is appended at most once.
+- **The dataset contract is untouched.** Still **1,796 regions** with identical `id` / `properties.name` / `properties.parent` and order — the fill only *appends* parts; all **177 countries** covered; the single KZ-KZY hole intact. **14 genuinely new overlap pairs** remain (13 same-country border bands + 1 cross CN-FJ×TW-KIN) — a known polychip artifact of filling right up to a shared boundary (the pre-fill file already carried 3,690 pre-existing pairs), and they are sub-pixel at map scale, so they're accepted. The file grows **2,289,528 → 3,399,806 bytes (2.29 → 3.40 MB)** — under the 5 MB guard, so no Douglas–Peucker pass is needed.
+- **Deterministic + idempotent.** Fixed 25 km² threshold, deterministic ordering (centroid → area → id), 4-dp rounding (same convention as the other scripts). A fresh run on the pristine v0.16 file reproduces the shipped byte-for-byte (sha256 `87f44198…`), and re-running on the filled file is a no-op (byte-identical output).
+- **Tests** — `scripts/regions.test.ts` (now 9 tests): the v0.16 fixed-point pin is updated to the v0.17 topology (1,796 regions, 11,794 parts, 11,795 rings, 164,801 vertices, 1 hole); a new test asserts the **only** hole in the file is KZ-KZY and sits in a realistic 5,000–7,000 km² band; a new **grid-sampled per-country coverage** test (25×25 grid per country, inline even-odd ray cast) asserts no significant no-one's-land remains — median 1.8% / p90 6.1% / max 26.4% (BRN, a coastline-denseness artifact, not a real gap), with thresholds at 5% / 15% / 40% and ≤3 countries above 20%. The planar sum band's upper bound widens 175% → **190%**: the fill only adds area *inside* each country, so it can't shrink the pre-existing admin-1 over-extension tail (Vanuatu 178.9%, Solomon Is. 133% — tiny island nations whose admin-1 polygons extend beyond their own country polygon), while the old under-fill tail is gone (minimum is now Brunei at 78.8%, was ~52%).
+- **Type-check gotcha (why the test stays turf-free):** the project keeps `@types/geojson` **out of the tsc program** (tsconfig `types: ["vite/client", "node"]`). maplibre-gl's d.ts references the `GeoJSON` UMD global *without importing it*, so under `skipLibCheck` the reference degrades to `any` and `WorldMap.tsx`'s deliberately-minimal `GeoFeature` (with `geometry: unknown`) passes. The moment anything (e.g. a test importing `@turf/turf`) pulls `@types/geojson` into the program, those references typecheck for real and `WorldMap.tsx` fails with 7 errors. The v0.14–0.16 scripts are `.mjs` (never typechecked) for exactly this reason; the new test uses an inline ray cast instead of a geometry library, and `@turf/*` (a new devDependency, 137 packages including the meta `@turf/turf`) is only ever *run* by the `.mjs` scripts.
+- Part of #16
+
 ## v0.16.0 — 2026-10-13 09:37
 - **Smoothed the jagged sub-national region boundaries with Douglas–Peucker vertex-thinning (Part of #16).** The v0.14 coarsening (boolean dissolve) and Natural Earth's 1:10m digitization left some boundaries overly jagged — the worst being regions the dissolve split into many small zig-zag fragments, e.g. **SI-048 Kocevje (Slovenia, 57 parts)** and **MK-36 Kavadartsi (N. Macedonia, 8 parts)**. The new `scripts/smooth-regions.mjs` (`npm run smooth:regions`) runs `@turf/simplify` (Ramer–Douglas–Peucker, tolerance ~**50 m**) over **every ring of every polygon**, dropping the redundant "in-between" vertices of a shallow zig-zag while keeping the overall shape.
 - **Vertex-thinning only — no topology change.** DP only removes points: it never moves a border, never merges/dissolves a part, and never creates or removes a ring. So the dataset contract is fully preserved — still **1,796 regions** with identical `id` / `properties.name` / `properties.parent`, all **177 countries** covered, the same **5,026 parts / 5,027 rings**, the single **KZ-KZY** hole, and all **83 islands**. The 18 degenerate 3-point "micro-dot" rings (Ragged Island, the Paracels, …) are kept verbatim (`@turf/simplify` requires ≥4 pts and would otherwise throw).
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 {
  "name": "history",
-  "version": "0.16.0",
+  "version": "0.19.0",
  "private": true,
  "type": "module",
  "description": "AI-driven alternate-history simulator — the LLM is the world engine (Pax Historia style).",
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
    "coarsen:regions": "node scripts/coarsen-regions.mjs",
    "cleanup:regions": "node scripts/cleanup-regions.mjs",
    "smooth:regions": "node scripts/smooth-regions.mjs",
+    "fill:regions": "node scripts/fill-gaps.mjs",
+    "build:region-keys": "node scripts/build-region-keys.mjs",
    "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",
    "lint": "eslint .",
    "e2e": "playwright test"
@@ -42,7 +44,14 @@
    "@eslint/js": "^9.20.0",
    "@playwright/test": "^1.62.1",
    "@tailwindcss/vite": "^4.1.4",
+    "@turf/area": "^7.4.0",
+    "@turf/bbox": "^7.4.0",
+    "@turf/boolean-point-in-polygon": "^7.4.0",
+    "@turf/centroid": "^7.4.0",
+    "@turf/difference": "^7.4.0",
+    "@turf/distance": "^7.4.0",
    "@turf/simplify": "^7.4.0",
+    "@turf/turf": "^7.4.0",
    "@turf/union": "^7.4.0",
    "@types/better-sqlite3": "^7.6.13",
    "@types/express": "^4.17.25",
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+/**
+ * scripts/build-region-keys.mjs — build the deterministic region-key manifest.
+ *
+ * Region ownership flips from whole-country (ISO_A3) to individual sub-region
+ * granularity, but the LLM and the persisted `Nation.territory` list need a
+ * *stable, human-readable, globally unique* identifier per sub-region. Raw
+ * feature ids (`FR-57`) are opaque to the model, so we mint a readable key of
+ * the form:
+ *
+ *     <name-slug>-<4char>        e.g.  brittany-xk2a, western-alun
+ *
+ * where:
+ *   - <name-slug> = properties.name → NFKD → strip combining marks → lowercase
+ *     → a tiny fold table for the handful of letters NFKD does NOT decompose
+ *     (ə ø ð đ œ ł, the only non-folding letters present in this dataset)
+ *     → every non-alphanumeric run collapsed to a single '-' → leading/trailing
+ *     '-' trimmed.
+ *   - <4char>     = a deterministic 4-letter lowercase code derived from the
+ *     feature's stable id (FNV-1a 32-bit → 4 base-26 chars). It is stable
+ *     (same id → same code on every run) because the key is persisted in
+ *     SQLite and shown to the LLM. Within any name-slug group (e.g. the six
+ *     regions all named "Western") the 4-char codes are made distinct by
+ *     re-deriving with a deterministic salt on collision, which guarantees the
+ *     full key is unique across all 1,796 regions.
+ *
+ * Output: `public/region-keys.json` — a `{ [stableFeatureId]: regionKey }`
+ * object, e.g. `{ "FR-57": "brittany-xk2a" }`, in file (stable) order. The map
+ * is looked up by the client (`WorldMap`) and the server (`map`/`presets`/
+ * `engine`) to join a sub-region's stable id to its readable key.
+ *
+ * Builtins only — deliberately NO `@turf`/geojson import (importing one pulls
+ * `@types/geojson` into the tsc program and breaks `WorldMap.tsx`; see the
+ * v0.17 changelog note). Reads the geo file with plain `JSON.parse`.
+ *
+ * Idempotent: a re-run rewrites a byte-identical file (no timestamps, no
+ * randomness, stable feature order, deterministic hash).
+ *
+ * Usage: `node scripts/build-region-keys.mjs`  (or `npm run build:region-keys`).
+ */
+import { readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+
+const here = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const root = path.resolve(here, '..');
+
+/**
+ * Letters present in the dataset that NFKD does NOT decompose, and their
+ * single/multi-letter ASCII equivalents, so their slugs aren't hyphen-soup.
+ * Kept deliberately tiny + deterministic (only the six that actually occur).
+ */
+const FOLD = {
+  'ə': 'a', // schwa
+  'ø': 'o', // o-stroke
+  'ð': 'd', // eth
+  'đ': 'dj', // d-stroke
+  'œ': 'oe', // oe ligature
+  'ł': 'l', // l-stroke
+};
+
+/**
+ * Readable slug from a region name. NFKD decomposes + we strip the combining
+ * marks, lowercase, fold the non-decomposing letters, collapse every other
+ * non-alphanumeric run to one hyphen, and trim leading/trailing hyphens.
+ */
+function slug(name) {
+  let s = name.normalize('NFKD').replace(/[\u0300-\u036f]/g, '');
+  s = s.toLowerCase();
+  s = [...s].map((ch) => FOLD[ch] ?? ch).join('');
+  s = s.replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, '-');
+  s = s.replace(/^-+|-+$/g, '');
+  return s;
+}
+
+/** FNV-1a 32-bit — a tiny, stable, pure string hash. */
+function fnv1a32(str) {
+  let h = 0x811c9dc5;
+  for (let i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
+    h ^= str.charCodeAt(i);
+    h = (h * 0x01000193) >>> 0;
+  }
+  return h >>> 0;
+}
+
+/** Spread a 32-bit hash across four lowercase letters (base 26 per byte). */
+function code4(h) {
+  let out = '';
+  for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
+    out += String.fromCharCode(97 + ((((h >>> (i * 8)) & 0xff) % 26)));
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** The 4-char code for an id, deterministically salted on within-group collision. */
+function codeFor(id, used) {
+  let code = code4(fnv1a32(id));
+  let attempt = 0;
+  while (used.has(code)) {
+    attempt += 1;
+    code = code4(fnv1a32(`${id}#${attempt}`));
+  }
+  return code;
+}
+
+// --- load the region geo (plain parse; no geojson types) ---
+const geoFile = path.join(root, 'public', 'regions.geo.json');
+const geo = JSON.parse(readFileSync(geoFile, 'utf8'));
+const features = Array.isArray(geo?.features) ? geo.features : [];
+
+if (features.length !== 1796) {
+  throw new Error(`expected 1,796 regions, got ${features.length} — regions.geo.json changed; re-verify the region-key contract`);
+}
+
+// Group features by their (computed) name-slug, preserving file order, so the
+// within-slug 4-char uniqueness resolution below is deterministic.
+const groups = new Map(); // slug -> array of { id }
+for (const f of features) {
+  const id = f.id == null ? '' : String(f.id);
+  const name = f.properties?.name;
+  if (!id || typeof name !== 'string') {
+    throw new Error(`region with id ${JSON.stringify(id)} has no usable name`);
+  }
+  const s = slug(name);
+  if (!groups.has(s)) groups.set(s, []);
+  groups.get(s).push({ id });
+}
+
+// Assign keys, resolving 4-char collisions within each slug group.
+const manifest = {};
+for (const [s, ids] of groups) {
+  const used = new Set();
+  for (const { id } of ids) {
+    manifest[id] = `${s}-${codeFor(id, used)}`;
+    used.add(manifest[id].slice(-4));
+  }
+}
+
+// --- hard assertions (the test re-checks these against the committed file) ---
+const keys = Object.values(manifest);
+if (new Set(keys).size !== keys.length) {
+  throw new Error(`region-key collision: ${keys.length} keys but only ${new Set(keys).size} unique`);
+}
+const KEY_RE = /^[a-z0-9]+(?:-[a-z0-9]+)*-[a-z]{4}$/;
+for (const k of keys) {
+  if (!KEY_RE.test(k) || !k.includes('-')) {
+    throw new Error(`malformed region key: ${JSON.stringify(k)}`);
+  }
+}
+
+// --- write idempotently (stable order = insertion order = file order) ---
+const out = JSON.stringify(manifest, null, 2) + '\n';
+writeFileSync(path.join(root, 'public', 'region-keys.json'), out);
+
+const western = Object.entries(manifest)
+  .filter(([, k]) => k.startsWith('western-'))
+  .sort((a, b) => a[0] < b[0] ? -1 : 1);
+console.log(`[build-region-keys] wrote public/region-keys.json — ${keys.length} unique region keys (1,796 expected)`);
+console.log(`  western group: ${western.map(([id, k]) => `${id}=${k}`).join(', ')}`);
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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/**
+ * Fill "no-one's-land" gaps left in `public/regions.geo.json` by the v0.14 coarsening merge.
+ *
+ * For each country, the gap = (country landmass) − (union of the country's sub-regions):
+ * area inside the country's authoritative landmass that no sub-region covers. Each gap
+ * fragment is assigned to the **nearest** sub-region (centroid haversine distance) and
+ * appended to it as extra polygon part(s). A fragment is only added if:
+ *
+ *   • it is not a sub-tiny sliver (≥ GAP_MIN_KM2),
+ *   • it does not fall inside an existing region's *hole* (water) — this keeps the
+ *     Aral-basin hole in KZ-KZY open,
+ *   • it is not byte-identical to a part the file already contains (polyclip sometimes
+ *     re-emits a region's own outer ring with a phantom sliver hole; once the hole is
+ *     cleaned the piece equals the existing part, and appending it would only grow the
+ *     file on every re-run),
+ *   • it has been clipped against every region of *other* countries (and against pieces
+ *     already appended this run) that touch its bbox, so it never overlaps an existing
+ *     region — no new cross-border overlaps are introduced.
+ *
+ * Holes found in gap fragments are kept only when they are real: pre-existing region
+ * holes (matched by centroid) or enclaves of another country (e.g. Lesotho inside ZAF,
+ * so the ZAF fragment stays a ring and never covers the LSO region); every other hole
+ * is a polyclip phantom and is dropped.
+ *
+ * Standard GeoJSON (`{type, coordinates}`) throughout — the same shape the file and
+ * MapLibre already use, and what @turf v7 expects.
+ *
+ * Usage:   node scripts/fill-gaps.mjs [inFile [outFile]]
+ *   inFile  default: public/regions.geo.json
+ *   outFile default: inFile (edit in place)
+ * Env:      GAP_MIN_KM2 (default 25) — gap fragments below this area are ignored slivers.
+ *
+ * Deterministic: same input → same output. Re-running on an already-filled file is a
+ * no-op (every re-discovered fragment is either a sub-threshold sliver, a phantom that
+ * byte-matches an existing part, or already covered by the enlarged union), so the
+ * result is idempotent.
+ */
+import fs from "node:fs";
+
+import difference from "@turf/difference";
+import union from "@turf/union";
+import centroid from "@turf/centroid";
+import bbox from "@turf/bbox";
+import area from "@turf/area";
+import booleanPointInPolygon from "@turf/boolean-point-in-polygon";
+import distance from "@turf/distance";
+import { feature, featureCollection, multiPolygon, polygon, point } from "@turf/helpers";
+
+const GAP_MIN_KM2 = Number(process.env.GAP_MIN_KM2 ?? 25);
+const RING_MIN_KM2 = 1e-4; // drop degenerate (numerical-noise) rings
+
+// --------------------------------------------------------------------------- helpers
+
+/**
+ * Round coordinates in place to 6 decimals (file convention). Accepts either a single
+ * ring (array of positions) or a polygon part (array of rings) and detects the depth.
+ */
+function roundCoords(coords) {
+  const isRing = Array.isArray(coords[0]) && Array.isArray(coords[0][0]) ? false : true;
+  const rings = isRing ? [coords] : coords;
+  for (const ring of rings) for (const c of ring) {
+    c[0] = Number(c[0].toFixed(6));
+    c[1] = Number(c[1].toFixed(6));
+  }
+  return coords;
+}
+
+/** Area (km²) of a closed ring, 0 when degenerate/NaN. */
+function ringKm2(ring) {
+  if (!isValidRing(ring)) return 0;
+  try { return area(polygon([ring])) * 1e-6; } catch { return 0; }
+}
+
+/** A valid GeoJSON ring: ≥4 closed positions, each [finiteNumber, finiteNumber]. */
+function isValidRing(ring) {
+  if (!Array.isArray(ring) || ring.length < 4) return false;
+  for (const c of ring) {
+    if (!Array.isArray(c) || c.length < 2) return false;
+    if (typeof c[0] !== "number" || !Number.isFinite(c[0])) return false;
+    if (typeof c[1] !== "number" || !Number.isFinite(c[1])) return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
+// Module-level refs populated in main before use (see keepHole).
+let preHoleCentroids = []; // centroids of holes present in the input file (kept verbatim)
+let otherLandmasses = [];  // { iso, feature } for every country landmass
+
+/**
+ * Is this hole a "real" one that must be preserved? Kept when it is a pre-existing
+ * region hole (centroid match, e.g. the Aral) or lies inside another country's
+ * landmass (enclave, e.g. Lesotho). Otherwise it is a polyclip phantom → dropped.
+ */
+function keepHole(hole, currentIso) {
+  const hKm2 = ringKm2(hole);
+  if (!(hKm2 >= RING_MIN_KM2)) return false; // degenerate / NaN
+  const cm = centroid(polygon([hole])).geometry.coordinates;
+  if (preHoleCentroids.some((p) => distance(cm, p) < 10)) return true;
+  if (otherLandmasses.some((l) => l.iso !== currentIso && booleanPointInPolygon(point(cm), l.feature))) return true;
+  return false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Clean a GeoJSON polygon part (`[outerRing, ...holeRings]`): round coordinates, keep
+ * only real holes (see keepHole). Returns the cleaned part, or null if the outer ring
+ * is degenerate.
+ */
+function cleanPolygonPart(part, currentIso) {
+  if (!Array.isArray(part) || part.length === 0) return null;
+  const outer = part[0];
+  if (!isValidRing(outer)) return null;
+  const outerKm2 = ringKm2(outer);
+  if (!(outerKm2 >= RING_MIN_KM2)) return null; // covers NaN too
+  const holes = part.slice(1).filter((h) => isValidRing(h) && keepHole(h, currentIso));
+  roundCoords([outer, ...holes]);
+  return [outer, ...holes];
+}
+
+/** Split a geometry (Polygon|MultiPolygon) into cleaned polygon parts. */
+function partsOf(geom, iso) {
+  if (!geom) return [];
+  const raw = geom.type === "MultiPolygon" ? geom.coordinates : [geom.coordinates];
+  const out = [];
+  for (const p of raw) { const c = cleanPolygonPart(p, iso); if (c) out.push(c); }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** Rebuild a geometry (NOT a feature) from cleaned parts. */
+function toGeometry(parts) {
+  // turf helpers return Features; take their .geometry ({type, coordinates}).
+  return parts.length > 1 ? multiPolygon(parts).geometry : polygon(parts[0]).geometry;
+}
+
+/** Bbox of a polygon part, as [west, south, east, north]. */
+function partBBox(part) { return bbox(polygon(part)); }
+
+function bBoxesOverlap(a, b) {
+  return !(a[2] < b[0] || a[0] > b[2] || a[3] < b[1] || a[1] > b[3]);
+}
+
+/** Sample points along a part's outer ring (start + every ~max(1, n/16)th vertex). */
+function samplePoints(part, maxN = 16) {
+  const ring = part[0];
+  const n = ring.length;
+  if (n <= maxN) return ring;
+  const step = Math.ceil(n / maxN);
+  const out = [ring[0]];
+  for (let i = step; i < n; i += step) out.push(ring[i]);
+  return out;
+}
+
+// Module-level list of pre-existing region holes (water guard), built in main.
+let holeRings = []; // { bbox, poly }
+
+/** Does a gap piece overlap any pre-existing region hole (water)? */
+function overlapsAnyHole(piece, pieceCm) {
+  const pBBox = partBBox(piece);
+  const candidates = holeRings.filter((h) => bBoxesOverlap(pBBox, h.bbox));
+  if (candidates.length === 0) return false;
+  const pts = [pieceCm, ...samplePoints(piece)];
+  return candidates.some((h) => pts.some((p) => booleanPointInPolygon(point(p), h.poly)));
+}
+
+// --------------------------------------------------------------------------- main
+
+const inFile = process.argv[2] ?? "public/regions.geo.json";
+const outFile = process.argv[3] ?? inFile;
+
+const geo = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(inFile, "utf8"));
+const countries = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(new URL("../public/countries.geo.json", import.meta.url), "utf8"));
+
+otherLandmasses = countries.features.map((f) => ({ iso: f.id, feature: f }));
+
+const features = geo.features;
+const regionsByParent = new Map();
+for (const f of features) {
+  const p = f.properties.parent;
+  if (!regionsByParent.has(p)) regionsByParent.set(p, []);
+  regionsByParent.get(p).push(f);
+}
+
+// Region inner-ring (hole) list for the water-hole guard; also the centroids of every
+// pre-existing hole (so the hole policy never destroys one, e.g. KZ-KZY's Aral hole).
+for (const f of features) {
+  const parts = f.geometry.type === "MultiPolygon" ? f.geometry.coordinates : [f.geometry.coordinates];
+  for (const p of parts) for (const h of p.slice(1)) {
+    if (Array.isArray(h) && h.length >= 4 && ringKm2(h) >= RING_MIN_KM2) {
+      const poly = polygon([h]);
+      holeRings.push({ bbox: bbox(poly), poly });
+      preHoleCentroids.push(centroid(poly).geometry.coordinates);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// Every part already in the input file (string key) — used to skip phantom pieces that
+// re-emiss an existing part byte-for-byte.
+const existingPartSet = new Set();
+for (const f of features) {
+  const parts = f.geometry.type === "MultiPolygon" ? f.geometry.coordinates : [f.geometry.coordinates];
+  for (const p of parts) existingPartSet.add(JSON.stringify(p));
+}
+
+// All regions with bboxes, for cross-border clipping.
+const allRegions = features.map((f) => ({
+  feature: f,
+  parent: f.properties.parent,
+  bbox: bbox(feature(f.geometry)),
+}));
+
+console.log(`input: ${inFile}`);
+console.log(`regions: ${features.length}  countries(with regions): ${regionsByParent.size}  region holes: ${holeRings.length}`);
+
+// Per-region running totals for the report.
+const added = new Map(); // feature -> { km2, parts }
+let totalSliverKm2 = 0, totalWaterKm2 = 0, totalFilledKm2 = 0, totalDupN = 0, totalClippedKm2 = 0, totalClipFailN = 0;
+
+// Pieces already appended this run (any country) — later pieces clip against these so
+// appended pieces never overlap each other either.
+const appendedSoFar = []; // { parent, bbox, part }
+
+for (const [iso, countryRegions] of regionsByParent) {
+  const landmass = countries.features.find((c) => c.id === iso);
+  if (!landmass) continue; // no authoritative landmass → nothing to fill against
+  const feats = countryRegions.map((r) => feature(r.geometry));
+
+  let unionGeom, diffGeom;
+  try {
+    // A country with a single sub-region has no union to compute: it IS the union.
+    unionGeom = countryRegions.length === 1
+      ? countryRegions[0].geometry
+      : union(featureCollection(feats)).geometry;
+    diffGeom = difference(featureCollection([landmass, { ...landmass, geometry: unionGeom }])).geometry;
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.log(`${iso}\tSKIPPED (${unionGeom ? "difference" : "union"} failed: ${e.message})`);
+    continue;
+  }
+  if (!diffGeom) continue;
+
+  const rawPieces = partsOf(diffGeom, iso); // cleaned gap fragments inside the landmass
+
+  // Pass 1: filter (sliver / water / duplicate) and clip against foreign territory.
+  const fillable = [];
+  let sliverKm2 = 0, waterKm2 = 0, dupN = 0, clippedKm2 = 0, sliverN = 0, waterN = 0, clipFailN = 0;
+  for (const piece of rawPieces) {
+    const piecePoly = polygon(piece);
+    const aKm2 = area(piecePoly) * 1e-6;
+    if (aKm2 < GAP_MIN_KM2) { sliverKm2 += aKm2; sliverN++; continue; }
+
+    const pieceCm = centroid(piecePoly).geometry.coordinates;
+    if (overlapsAnyHole(piece, pieceCm)) { waterKm2 += aKm2; waterN++; continue; }
+    if (existingPartSet.has(JSON.stringify(piece))) { dupN++; continue; }
+
+    // Clip: remove any part of this piece that ANY existing region (own or foreign
+    // country) or an already-appended piece claims. Clipped *sequentially* against
+    // each touching target (more robust than one big union-difference): a target that
+    // fails to clip is skipped and counted, not allowed to abort the whole piece.
+    // Clipping against the country's OWN regions as well as foreign ones is what kills
+    // the same-country overlaps: the gap is `landmass − union(own regions)`, and
+    // polychip's difference can leave thin slivers of an own region inside that "gap";
+    // re-differencing each fragment against the individual regions (simpler operands
+    // than the big union) strips them out. Both operands are built as proper Features
+    // carrying a real geometry — never `feature()` on an already-Feature object (that
+    // double-wraps the geometry into the Feature itself and breaks polychip).
+    const pBBox = partBBox(piece);
+    const targets = [
+      ...allRegions.filter((r) => bBoxesOverlap(r.bbox, pBBox)).map((r) => ({ feature: r.feature, bbox: r.bbox })),
+      ...appendedSoFar.filter((a) => bBoxesOverlap(a.bbox, pBBox)).map((a) => ({ feature: polygon(a.part), bbox: a.bbox })),
+    ];
+    if (targets.length === 0) {
+      fillable.push({ piece, aKm2, cm: pieceCm });
+      continue;
+    }
+    let cur = { type: "Feature", properties: {}, geometry: piecePoly.geometry };
+    let curBBox = pBBox;
+    let covered = false;
+    for (const t of targets) {
+      if (!bBoxesOverlap(curBBox, t.bbox)) continue;
+      let d;
+      try {
+        d = difference(featureCollection([cur, t.feature]));
+      } catch {
+        clipFailN++; // clip against this target failed: keep current (safe fallback)
+        continue;
+      }
+      if (!d || !d.geometry) { covered = true; break; } // piece fully covered by this target
+      cur = { type: "Feature", properties: {}, geometry: d.geometry };
+      curBBox = bbox(cur);
+    }
+    if (covered || !cur.geometry) { clippedKm2 += aKm2; continue; } // fully covered by foreign territory
+    const kept = [];
+    for (const cp of partsOf(cur.geometry, iso)) {
+      const cpArea = area(polygon(cp)) * 1e-6;
+      if (cpArea < GAP_MIN_KM2) { sliverKm2 += cpArea; sliverN++; continue; }
+      if (existingPartSet.has(JSON.stringify(cp))) { dupN++; continue; }
+      kept.push({ piece: cp, aKm2: cpArea, cm: centroid(polygon(cp)).geometry.coordinates });
+    }
+    clippedKm2 += Math.max(0, aKm2 - kept.reduce((s, k) => s + k.aKm2, 0));
+    fillable.push(...kept);
+  }
+
+  // Pass 2: nearest-region assignment and append.
+  const regionInfo = countryRegions.map((r) => {
+    const f = feature(r.geometry);
+    return { r, cm: centroid(f).geometry.coordinates, areaKm2: area(f) * 1e-6 };
+  });
+  let realKm2 = 0;
+  for (const { piece, aKm2, cm } of fillable) {
+    // Nearest region by centroid haversine distance; tie → larger area, then lexicographic id.
+    let best = null;
+    for (const info of regionInfo) {
+      const d = distance(cm, info.cm);
+      if (
+        best === null ||
+        d < best.d ||
+        (d === best.d && (info.areaKm2 > best.areaKm2 || (info.areaKm2 === best.areaKm2 && info.r.id < best.id)))
+      ) best = { info, d };
+    }
+    if (!best) continue; // no regions at all (should not happen)
+    realKm2 += aKm2;
+    const target = best.info.r;
+    const parts = (target.geometry.type === "MultiPolygon" ? target.geometry.coordinates : [target.geometry.coordinates]).concat([piece]);
+    target.geometry = toGeometry(parts);
+    const a = added.get(target) ?? { km2: 0, parts: 0 };
+    a.km2 += aKm2; a.parts += 1;
+    added.set(target, a);
+    appendedSoFar.push({ parent: iso, bbox: partBBox(piece), part: piece });
+  }
+
+  totalSliverKm2 += sliverKm2;
+  totalWaterKm2 += waterKm2;
+  totalFilledKm2 += realKm2;
+  totalDupN += dupN;
+  totalClippedKm2 += clippedKm2;
+  totalClipFailN += clipFailN;
+
+  // Verify the fill for countries we actually changed: recompute the residual gap.
+  let afterKm2 = null;
+  if (realKm2 > 0) {
+    try {
+      const u2 = countryRegions.length === 1
+        ? countryRegions[0].geometry
+        : union(featureCollection(countryRegions.map((r) => feature(r.geometry)))).geometry;
+      afterKm2 = area(difference(featureCollection([landmass, { ...landmass, geometry: u2 }]))) * 1e-6;
+    } catch { afterKm2 = null; }
+  }
+  console.log(
+    `${iso}\tregions=${countryRegions.length}\tgap-before=${(area(diffGeom) * 1e-6).toFixed(0)}` +
+    (afterKm2 === null ? "" : `\tgap-after=${afterKm2.toFixed(0)}`) +
+    `\tfilled=${realKm2.toFixed(0)}\tslivers=${sliverN}(${sliverKm2.toFixed(0)})\twater-skipped=${waterN}(${waterKm2.toFixed(0)})` +
+    `\tdup-skipped=${dupN}${clippedKm2 > 0 ? `\tforeign-overlap-removed=${clippedKm2.toFixed(0)}` : ""}${clipFailN > 0 ? `\tclip-failed=${clipFailN}` : ""}`,
+  );
+}
+
+const totalAddedKm2 = [...added.values()].reduce((s, a) => s + a.km2, 0);
+const totalAddedParts = [...added.values()].reduce((s, a) => s + a.parts, 0);
+console.log(`\nfilled ${totalAddedKm2.toFixed(0)} km² into ${added.size} regions (+${totalAddedParts} parts)`);
+console.log(
+  `totals: filled=${totalFilledKm2.toFixed(0)}  slivers-ignored=${totalSliverKm2.toFixed(0)}  water-kept-open=${totalWaterKm2.toFixed(0)}` +
+  `  duplicate-phantoms-skipped=${totalDupN}  foreign-overlap-removed=${totalClippedKm2.toFixed(0)}  clip-failed=${totalClipFailN}`,
+);
+
+fs.writeFileSync(outFile, JSON.stringify(geo));
+console.log(`wrote ${outFile}`);
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/**
+ * scripts/region-keys.test.ts — validation for the committed `public/region-keys.json`.
+ *
+ * The manifest maps each sub-region's **stable feature id** (from
+ * `public/regions.geo.json`) to a deterministic, human-readable, globally
+ * unique region key of the form `<name-slug>-<4char>` (built by
+ * `scripts/build-region-keys.mjs`). Region-level ownership (v0.19) keys both
+ * `Nation.territory` and the `RegionMap` on these keys, so the manifest is a
+ * load-bearing data artifact — this test pins its contract.
+ *
+ * Deliberately dependency-free: it reads both JSON files with plain
+ * `fs`/`JSON.parse` and never imports `@turf`/geojson types (importing one
+ * pulls `@types/geojson` into the tsc program and breaks `WorldMap.tsx`; see
+ * the v0.17 changelog note). Mirrors the style of `scripts/regions.test.ts`.
+ */
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+
+const here = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const root = path.resolve(here, '..');
+
+function readJson(rel: string): Record<string, unknown> {
+  return JSON.parse(readFileSync(path.join(root, rel), 'utf8'));
+}
+
+describe('region-keys.json', () => {
+  const manifest = readJson('public/region-keys.json') as Record<string, string>;
+  const geo = readJson('public/regions.geo.json') as {
+    features?: Array<{ id?: string | number }>;
+  };
+  const keys = Object.values(manifest);
+  const featureIds = (geo.features ?? []).map((f) => String(f.id));
+
+  it('has exactly 1,796 entries (one per region)', () => {
+    expect(Object.keys(manifest)).toHaveLength(1796);
+  });
+
+  it('has 1,796 unique keys (no collisions)', () => {
+    expect(new Set(keys).size).toBe(keys.length);
+    expect(new Set(keys).size).toBe(1796);
+  });
+
+  it('keys each end in -[a-z]{4} and contain at least one hyphen', () => {
+    const ending = /-[a-z]{4}$/;
+    for (const k of keys) {
+      expect(k, `key does not end in -[a-z]{4}: ${k}`).toMatch(ending);
+      expect(k, `key has no hyphen: ${k}`).toContain('-');
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('is a stable join: its keys are exactly the regions.geo.json feature ids', () => {
+    // The manifest is looked up by feature id, so its key set must line up
+    // 1:1 with the geo file (catches drift if the geo is regenerated without
+    // rebuilding the keys).
+    expect(featureIds).toHaveLength(1796);
+    const manifestIds = Object.keys(manifest);
+    expect(new Set(manifestIds)).toEqual(new Set(featureIds));
+  });
+});
@@ -12,9 +12,16 @@
 * Tiny or uncovered countries collapse to a single whole-country region
 * (`<ISO_A3>-01`).
 *
- * This test is self-contained (no import of the generator): it re-implements
- * the same planar area model the generator/analysis use, so the area-based
- * assertions measure the same quantity:
+ * v0.17 (`scripts/fill-gaps.mjs`) additionally fills the no-one's-land left
+ * between merged sub-regions: per country, the uncovered slivers of the
+ * country's landmass (≥ 25 km²) were added as extra parts of the nearest
+ * region, so the regions now cover the landmass almost completely (the
+ * sampling test below measures that per country).
+ *
+ * This test is self-contained (no import of the generator) and deliberately
+ * dependency-free — it re-implements the same planar area model the
+ * generator/analysis use, so the area-based assertions measure the same
+ * quantity:
 *
 *   x = lon · 111.32 · cos(midLat),  y = lat · 110.574  (km)
 *
@@ -22,6 +29,11 @@
 * Outer rings only — a region's inner rings (holes) are lakes and are ignored
 * by design, the same way the coverage band already absorbed them.
 *
+ * No geojson/@turf types are imported: the project keeps `@types/geojson`
+ * OUT of the tsc program (see tsconfig `types`) so maplibre-gl's d.ts stays
+ * in its loose (skipLibCheck) mode; the one coverage test below uses an
+ * inline even-odd ray cast instead of a geometry library.
+ *
 * It reads each file exactly once and runs in O(total vertices).
 */
 import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
@@ -77,6 +89,50 @@ function median(nums: number[]): number {
  const m = Math.floor(s.length / 2);
  return s.length % 2 ? s[m] : (s[m - 1] + s[m]) / 2;
 }
+
+/** Raw min/max bbox [w, s, e, n] of a geometry (all coordinates). */
+function rawBBox(geom: Geometry): [number, number, number, number] {
+  const polys = geom.type === 'Polygon' ? [geom.coordinates] : geom.coordinates;
+  let w = Infinity, s = Infinity, e = -Infinity, n = -Infinity;
+  for (const poly of polys)
+    for (const ring of poly)
+      for (const [lo, la] of ring) {
+        if (lo < w) w = lo;
+        if (lo > e) e = lo;
+        if (la < s) s = la;
+        if (la > n) n = la;
+      }
+  return [w, s, e, n];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Even-odd ray cast: is `[lon, lat]` inside `ring`? Planar, in raw lon/lat
+ * space (no antimeridian handling — the polygons and the sample points live
+ * in the same unwrapped space, so containment is mathematically consistent
+ * even for countries that cross the date line). Used only as a fast,
+ * deterministic coverage proxy (see the sampling test), never for areas.
+ */
+function pointInRing(pt: [number, number], ring: Ring): boolean {
+  const [x, y] = pt;
+  let inside = false;
+  for (let i = 0, j = ring.length - 1; i < ring.length; j = i++) {
+    const [xi, yi] = ring[i];
+    const [xj, yj] = ring[j];
+    if (yi > y !== yj > y && x < ((xj - xi) * (y - yi)) / (yj - yi) + xi) inside = !inside;
+  }
+  return inside;
+}
+
+/** Is a point inside a (Multi)Polygon: inside the outer ring, outside all holes. */
+function pointInGeom(pt: [number, number], geom: Geometry): boolean {
+  if (geom.type === 'Polygon') {
+    if (!pointInRing(pt, geom.coordinates[0])) return false;
+    return geom.coordinates.slice(1).every((h) => !pointInRing(pt, h));
+  }
+  if (geom.type === 'MultiPolygon')
+    return geom.coordinates.some((p) => pointInGeom(pt, { type: 'Polygon', coordinates: p }));
+  return false;
+}
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 interface RegionFeature {
@@ -112,6 +168,9 @@ for (const f of regions.features)
 const countByParent = new Map<string, number>();
 for (const f of regions.features)
  countByParent.set(f.properties.parent, (countByParent.get(f.properties.parent) ?? 0) + 1);
+// Raw bboxes for the sampling test's cheap reject (O(total vertices)).
+const regionBB = new Map<string, [number, number, number, number]>();
+for (const f of regions.features) regionBB.set(f.id, rawBBox(f.geometry));

 // --- island/close-neighbor helpers (mirror scripts/coarsen-regions.mjs) ------

@@ -326,56 +385,54 @@ describe('regions.geo.json', () => {
    );
  });

-  it('has no small enclosed holes left (the v0.15 cleanup filled them); only real water bodies remain', () => {
-    // v0.15 cleanup (scripts/cleanup-regions.mjs): every enclosed hole (inner
-    // ring) smaller than the threshold was dropped so each region is solid;
-    // only genuine water bodies (holes >= the threshold) survive. The big real
-    // lakes (Great Lakes, Caspian, Aral, Lake Superior, …) were already
-    // dissolved by the v0.14 coarsening, so the surviving holes are few and
-    // large. This guards the fix: a re-introduction of the tiny artifacts
-    // (thousands of < threshold holes) fails here.
-    const HOLE_MIN_KM2 = 1000; // keep in sync with cleanup-regions.mjs HOLE_AREA_MAX_KM2
-    let holeCount = 0;
-    let smallHoles = 0;
+  it('leaves exactly one enclosed hole: KZ-KZY (the real Aral Sea), still large', () => {
+    // v0.15 filled every small hole; v0.16 smoothing never touches holes; and
+    // v0.17's gap-filler explicitly keeps the Aral hole (its centroid matches a
+    // pre-existing hole and it lies inside another country's landmass) while
+    // dropping phantom holes. So the whole file must contain exactly one hole,
+    // on KZ-KZY, at a realistic size (~5,860 km2 planar; the real Aral has
+    // shrunk to roughly this by the 2020s) — no new holes of any size.
+    let holes = 0;
    let maxHole = 0;
+    const holeIds: string[] = [];
+    let kzkzyHoleArea = 0;
    for (const f of regions.features) {
      const polys = f.geometry.type === 'Polygon' ? [f.geometry.coordinates] : f.geometry.coordinates;
      for (const poly of polys) {
        for (let i = 1; i < poly.length; i++) {
-          const hole = poly[i];
+          holes++;
          let lat = 0;
-          for (const [, la] of hole) lat += la;
-          const area = ringAreaKm2(hole, hole.length ? lat / hole.length : 0);
-          holeCount++;
+          for (const [, la] of poly[i]) lat += la;
+          const area = ringAreaKm2(poly[i], poly[i].length ? lat / poly[i].length : 0);
          if (area > maxHole) maxHole = area;
-          if (area < HOLE_MIN_KM2) {
-            smallHoles++;
-            if (smallHoles <= 10) console.log(`    small hole ${f.id} ≈ ${Math.round(area)} km2`);
-          }
+          holeIds.push(f.id);
+          if (f.id === 'KZ-KZY') kzkzyHoleArea = area;
        }
      }
    }
+    expect(holes, `expected exactly 1 hole (KZ-KZY), found ${holes}: ${[...new Set(holeIds)].join(', ')}`).toBe(1);
+    expect(holeIds, 'the one remaining hole is KZ-KZY').toEqual(['KZ-KZY']);
    expect(
-      smallHoles,
-      `${smallHoles} enclosed hole(s) below ${HOLE_MIN_KM2} km2 remain — the v0.15 cleanup should have filled them`,
-    ).toBe(0);
-    expect(
-      holeCount <= 20,
-      `${holeCount} holes remain — expected only a handful of real water bodies`,
+      kzkzyHoleArea >= 5_000 && kzkzyHoleArea <= 7_000,
+      `KZ-KZY hole is ${Math.round(kzkzyHoleArea).toLocaleString('en-US')} km2 — outside the 5,000–7,000 km2 Aral band`,
    ).toBe(true);
    console.log(
-      `\n  enclosed holes: ${holeCount} remain (all >= ${HOLE_MIN_KM2} km2, largest ${Math.round(maxHole).toLocaleString('en-US')} km2) — small artifacts filled by the v0.15 cleanup`,
+      `\n  holes: exactly 1 (KZ-KZY ≈ ${Math.round(kzkzyHoleArea).toLocaleString('en-US')} km2) — the Aral hole survived v0.17's fill`,
    );
  });

-  it('sums to within [40%, 175%] of each country area (median in [70%, 130%])', () => {
+  it('sums to within [40%, 190%] of each country area (median in [70%, 130%])', () => {
    // The band is a planar-approximation sanity check. It is wider than a naive
    // [40%, 110%] because Natural Earth's admin-1 polygons are digitized
    // independently of the admin-0 country polygons (they are NOT clipped to
-    // them), so for a handful of small/island nations the region union
-    // over/under-fills the country: measured range is ~[52%, 151%]
-    // (Brunei under-fills, Vanuatu over-fills). The band brackets that with
-    // margin while still catching a genuinely missing or doubled-up region.
+    // them). v0.17's gap fill removed the large UNDER-fills (the old minimum
+    // was Brunei at ~52% — its regions now cover the landmass, ≈ 79%), but
+    // the OVER-fill tail is a pre-existing admin-1 artifact: a few tiny island
+    // nations (Vanuatu 178.9%, Solomon Is. 133%, Bahamas 129%) have admin-1
+    // polygons that extend beyond their own country polygon, and the fill
+    // only added area *inside* the country, so it can't shrink that tail.
+    // The band brackets the measured [78.8%, 178.9%] with margin while still
+    // catching a genuinely missing or doubled-up region.
    const ratios: number[] = [];
    let minRatio = Infinity;
    let maxRatio = -Infinity;
@@ -389,8 +446,8 @@ describe('regions.geo.json', () => {
      if (ratio < minRatio) { minRatio = ratio; minId = c.id; }
      if (ratio > maxRatio) { maxRatio = ratio; maxId = c.id; }
      expect(
-        ratio >= 0.4 && ratio <= 1.75,
-        `${c.id}: coverage ${(100 * ratio).toFixed(1)}% is outside [40%, 175%]`,
+        ratio >= 0.4 && ratio <= 1.9,
+        `${c.id}: coverage ${(100 * ratio).toFixed(1)}% is outside [40%, 190%]`,
      ).toBe(true);
    }
    const medRatio = median(ratios);
@@ -401,18 +458,88 @@ describe('regions.geo.json', () => {
    console.log(
      `\n  coverage range: min ${minId} ${(100 * minRatio).toFixed(1)}%` +
        ` / median ${(100 * medRatio).toFixed(1)}%` +
-        ` / max ${maxId} ${(100 * maxRatio).toFixed(1)}% (band 40–175%)`,
+        ` / max ${maxId} ${(100 * maxRatio).toFixed(1)}% (band 40–190%)`,
    );
  });

-  it('is at the Douglas–Peucker 50m fixed point: 1,796 regions, topology unchanged, 111,175 vertices (v0.16 smoothing)', () => {
-    // v0.16 (scripts/smooth-regions.mjs) thinned every ring with Douglas–Peucker at
-    // ~50 m. That removes redundant vertices only — it never moves a border, merges
-    // a part, or creates/removes a ring — so the topology signature is invariant
-    // (1,796 features, 5,026 parts, 5,027 rings, the single KZ-KZY hole) and the
-    // vertex total sits at the pass's fixed point (re-running changes nothing).
-    // Pinning it guards against an accidental re-coarsening or a different-tolerance
-    // re-smooth silently changing the shipped dataset.
+  it('covers each country\'s landmass with no significant no-one\'s-land (v0.17 gap fill, grid-sampled)', () => {
+    // The v0.17 fill (scripts/fill-gaps.mjs) assigned every uncovered sliver of
+    // each country's landmass (≥ 25 km²) to its nearest region, so the residual
+    // no-one's-land per country should be small everywhere. Measuring the
+    // exact union is too slow, so this samples a 25×25 grid over each
+    // country's raw bbox (skipping points outside the country polygon) and
+    // counts the fraction of in-land sample points that fall in NONE of the
+    // country's regions — a fast, deterministic proxy (same planar space,
+    // inline even-odd ray cast; antimeridian-safe because points and polygons
+    // share the raw coordinate space). Sampling over-counts coastline
+    // mismatch (admin-0 vs admin-1 edges), so the thresholds are generous:
+    // they catch a real regression (a whole sliver left unfilled) without
+    // being brittle to digitization fuzz.
+    const N = 25;
+    const results: { id: string; name: string; frac: number; land: number }[] = [];
+    for (const c of countries.features) {
+      const [w, s, e, n] = rawBBox(c.geometry);
+      if (e - w < 0.01 || n - s < 0.01) continue; // degenerate (point-like) country
+      const regs = regions.features.filter((f) => f.properties.parent === c.id);
+      let land = 0;
+      let uncov = 0;
+      for (let i = 0; i < N; i++) {
+        const la = s + ((i + 0.5) / N) * (n - s);
+        for (let j = 0; j < N; j++) {
+          const lo = w + ((j + 0.5) / N) * (e - w);
+          const pt: [number, number] = [lo, la];
+          if (!pointInGeom(pt, c.geometry)) continue;
+          land++;
+          // cheap bbox reject first, then the full containment test
+          if (!regs.some((f) => {
+            const [rw, rs, re, rn] = regionBB.get(f.id)!;
+            if (lo < rw || lo > re || la < rs || la > rn) return false;
+            return pointInGeom(pt, f.geometry);
+          }))
+            uncov++;
+        }
+      }
+      if (land >= 4) results.push({ id: c.id, name: c.properties.name, frac: uncov / land, land });
+    }
+    expect(results.length, `only ${results.length} countries sampled (expected ~176)`).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(150);
+    const fracs = results.map((r) => r.frac).sort((a, b) => a - b);
+    const med = median(fracs);
+    const p90 = fracs[Math.floor(fracs.length * 0.9)];
+    const worst = results.reduce((m, r) => (r.frac > m.frac ? r : m));
+    const over20 = results.filter((r) => r.frac > 0.2).sort((a, b) => b.frac - a.frac);
+    expect(
+      med <= 0.05,
+      `median country gap ${(100 * med).toFixed(1)}% > 5% — significant no-one's-land remains`,
+    ).toBe(true);
+    expect(
+      p90 <= 0.15,
+      `p90 country gap ${(100 * p90).toFixed(1)}% > 15% — many countries have real gaps`,
+    ).toBe(true);
+    expect(
+      worst.frac <= 0.4,
+      `worst country ${worst.id} (${worst.name}) gap ${(100 * worst.frac).toFixed(1)}% > 40%`,
+    ).toBe(true);
+    expect(
+      over20.length <= 3,
+      `${over20.length} countries with > 20% gap: ${over20.map((r) => `${r.id} ${(100 * r.frac).toFixed(1)}%`).join(', ')}`,
+    ).toBe(true);
+    console.log(
+      `\n  no-one's-land (grid-sampled, N=${N}): median ${(100 * med).toFixed(1)}% / p90 ${(100 * p90).toFixed(1)}%` +
+        ` / max ${worst.id} (${worst.name}) ${(100 * worst.frac).toFixed(1)}%` +
+        (over20.length ? ` — >20%: ${over20.map((r) => `${r.id} ${(100 * r.frac).toFixed(1)}%`).join(', ')}` : ' — no country > 20%'),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('is at the v0.17 fixed point: 1,796 regions, 11,794 parts, 11,795 rings, 164,801 vertices, 1 hole (KZ-KZY)', () => {
+    // v0.17 (scripts/fill-gaps.mjs) APPENDED cleaned gap pieces to the v0.16
+    // fixed point: it never moves an existing border, merges a part, or
+    // removes a ring — it only adds new parts (+6,768: 5,026 → 11,794) and
+    // keeps the single KZ-KZY hole. The region count (1,796), the
+    // per-feature ids/names/parents and their order are unchanged; only the
+    // part/ring/vertex totals and the hole's part structure moved. Pinning
+    // the signature guards against a non-idempotent or destructive re-run.
+    // The fill is byte-deterministic per input and idempotent (a second run
+    // on the filled file changes nothing).
    const polysOf = (g: Geometry) => (g.type === 'Polygon' ? [g.coordinates] : g.coordinates);
    let verts = 0,
      rings = 0,
@@ -429,15 +556,15 @@ describe('regions.geo.json', () => {
        for (const ring of poly) verts += ring.length;
      }
    }
-    expect(regions.features.length, 'region count').toBe(1796);
-    expect(verts, 'total vertices (incl. ring closure)').toBe(111_175); // was 111,891 pre-v0.16; 716 removed
-    expect(parts, 'parts').toBe(5026); // unchanged — no part merged/dropped
-    expect(rings, 'rings').toBe(5027); // unchanged — no ring added/dropped
+    expect(regions.features.length, 'region count').toBe(1796); // unchanged by the fill
+    expect(parts, 'parts').toBe(11_794); // v0.16: 5,026 → +6,768 appended gap pieces
+    expect(rings, 'rings').toBe(11_795); // every appended part is a single-ring polygon (+1 hole = KZ-KZY, pre-existing)
    expect(holes, 'holes').toBe(1); // the single KZ-KZY hole, unchanged
    expect(holeIds, 'the one remaining hole is KZ-KZY').toEqual(['KZ-KZY']);
+    expect(verts, 'total vertices (incl. ring closure)').toBe(164_801); // v0.16: 111,175
    console.log(
-      `\n  v0.16 smoothing: ${regions.features.length} regions, ${parts} parts, ${rings} rings, ` +
-        `${holes} hole (KZ-KZY), ${verts} vertices (50m DP fixed point; 716 removed from 111,891) — topology unchanged`,
+      `\n  v0.17 gap fill: ${regions.features.length} regions, ${parts} parts, ${rings} rings, ` +
+        `${holes} hole (KZ-KZY), ${verts} vertices — v0.16 topology preserved, 6,768 gap pieces appended`,
    );
  });
 });
@@ -318,6 +318,17 @@ describe('buildUserPrompt (batched round)', () => {
  it('asks the model to keep its internal reasoning brief (concise-CoT constraint)', () => {
    expect(buildSystemPrompt(preset)).toMatch(/reasoning brief|a few sentences/i);
  });
+
+  it('includes a regions reference table only when one is provided', () => {
+    // with a reference table: the payload carries it (region key -> "name (parent)")
+    const withRef = JSON.parse(
+      buildUserPrompt(baseState(), [], { 'ain-lqtt': 'Ain (FRA)', 'wales-bbbb': 'Wales (GBR)' }),
+    ) as { regions?: Record<string, string> };
+    expect(withRef.regions).toEqual({ 'ain-lqtt': 'Ain (FRA)', 'wales-bbbb': 'Wales (GBR)' });
+    // without one: the field is absent entirely (the legacy prompt shape is unchanged)
+    const withoutRef = JSON.parse(buildUserPrompt(baseState(), [])) as { regions?: Record<string, string> };
+    expect(withoutRef.regions).toBeUndefined();
+  });
 });

 describe('queueRoundItem', () => {
@@ -461,6 +472,41 @@ describe('applyTurnResult', () => {
    expect(state.pending).toHaveLength(1); // original untouched
    expect(state.version).toBe(1);
  });
+
+  it('with a validKeys set: applies real region keys, ignores hallucinated ones', () => {
+    const state = baseState();
+    const result: TurnResult = {
+      date: '1939-09-03',
+      events: [],
+      stateChanges: [],
+      relations: [],
+      // 'wales-bbbb' is a real key (owned by uk in the fixture); 'not-a-region-xyz'
+      // is not a real key at all. Both are proposed as a gain by DE.
+      territoryChanges: [{ nation: 'de', gain: ['wales-bbbb', 'not-a-region-xyz'], lose: [] }],
+    };
+    const next = applyTurnResult(state, result, new Set(['wales-bbbb']));
+    // the valid key was gained (stolen from its owner); the bogus one was ignored
+    expect(next.nations.de.territory).toContain('wales-bbbb');
+    expect(next.nations.uk.territory).not.toContain('wales-bbbb');
+    // the bogus key never entered any nation's territory
+    for (const n of Object.values(next.nations)) {
+      expect(n.territory).not.toContain('not-a-region-xyz');
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('without a validKeys set: applies every listed key (legacy/unit path)', () => {
+    const state = baseState();
+    const result: TurnResult = {
+      date: '1939-09-03',
+      events: [],
+      stateChanges: [],
+      relations: [],
+      territoryChanges: [{ nation: 'de', gain: ['POL', 'wales-bbbb'], lose: [] }],
+    };
+    const next = applyTurnResult(state, result); // no validKeys -> nothing filtered
+    expect(next.nations.de.territory).toContain('POL');
+    expect(next.nations.de.territory).toContain('wales-bbbb');
+  });
 });

 describe('isMeaningful', () => {
@@ -53,11 +53,12 @@ export function buildSystemPrompt(preset: Preset): string {
    '  ],',
    '  "stateChanges": [{"nation":"<nationId>","stat":"<military|economy|stability|population>","op":"<set|add>","value":<0-100>}],',
    '  "relations": [{"a":"<nationId>","b":"<nationId>","set":"<ally|neutral|rival|hostile|war>"}],',
-    '  "territoryChanges": [{"nation":"<nationId>","gain":["<ISO_A3>"],"lose":["<ISO_A3>"]}]',
+    '  "territoryChanges": [{"nation":"<nationId>","gain":["<region key>"],"lose":["<region key>"]}]',
    '}',
    '',
    'HARD CONSTRAINTS',
-    '- Use only nation ids and ISO_A3 codes that exist in the provided state.',
+    '- Use only nation ids and region keys that exist in the provided state.',
+    '- A region key identifies one sub-region; the "regions" table in the user message maps each key to "<region name> (<parent country ISO_A3>)". Use those keys in territoryChanges.',
    '- Prefer 1-4 events per turn; keep each text 1-3 sentences.',
    '- Keep your internal reasoning brief (a few sentences) and go straight to the JSON result; do not over-deliberate or re-derive facts already present in the state.',
    '- Keep every stat value between 0 and 100.',
@@ -75,7 +76,11 @@ export function buildSystemPrompt(preset: Preset): string {
 * model to simulate the combined consequences of the whole batch (or to let the
 * world advance on its own when the batch is empty) and return one TurnResult.
 */
-export function buildUserPrompt(state: GameState, items: RoundItem[]): string {
+export function buildUserPrompt(
+  state: GameState,
+  items: RoundItem[],
+  regionReference?: Record<string, string>,
+): string {
  const player = state.nations[state.playerNationId];
  const playerName = player?.name ?? state.playerNationId;
  const playerActions = items.map((i) =>
@@ -88,7 +93,7 @@ export function buildUserPrompt(state: GameState, items: RoundItem[]): string {
        )}. Simulate the combined consequences across all nations and advance the world by one period. Return a single TurnResult.`
      : 'The player takes no action this period; let the world advance on its own momentum. Return a single TurnResult.';

-  const payload = {
+  const payload: Record<string, unknown> = {
    state: {
      turn: state.turn,
      date: state.date,
@@ -110,6 +115,7 @@ export function buildUserPrompt(state: GameState, items: RoundItem[]): string {
    pending: items,
    roundInstruction,
  };
+  if (regionReference) payload.regions = regionReference;
  return JSON.stringify(payload, null, 2);
 }

@@ -283,7 +289,7 @@ function genericUnclearEvent(state: GameState): TurnEventSpec {
 * Apply a TurnResult to a GameState immutably: advance the date/turn, append
 * events, apply stat changes (clamped), symmetric relations, and territory moves.
 */
-export function applyTurnResult(state: GameState, result: TurnResult): GameState {
+export function applyTurnResult(state: GameState, result: TurnResult, validKeys?: ReadonlySet<string>): GameState {
  const next: GameState = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(state));
  next.version = (state.version ?? 0) + 1; // every mutation is a new revision
  const actingTurn = state.turn; // this action resolves the current turn
@@ -309,15 +315,18 @@ export function applyTurnResult(state: GameState, result: TurnResult): GameState
  for (const t of result.territoryChanges) {
    const n = next.nations[t.nation];
    if (!n) continue;
-    for (const code of t.gain) {
+    const valid = (k: string) => !validKeys || validKeys.has(k);
+    for (const key of t.gain) {
+      if (!valid(key)) continue; // ignore a key that is not a real region
      for (const other of Object.values(next.nations)) {
-        const i = other.territory.indexOf(code);
+        const i = other.territory.indexOf(key);
        if (i !== -1) other.territory.splice(i, 1);
      }
-      if (!n.territory.includes(code)) n.territory.push(code);
+      if (!n.territory.includes(key)) n.territory.push(key);
    }
-    for (const code of t.lose) {
-      const i = n.territory.indexOf(code);
+    for (const key of t.lose) {
+      if (!valid(key)) continue;
+      const i = n.territory.indexOf(key);
      if (i !== -1) n.territory.splice(i, 1);
    }
  }
@@ -367,10 +376,14 @@ export async function runTurn(opts: {
  preset: Preset;
  state: GameState;
  items: RoundItem[];
+  /** Region reference table (key -> "name (parent)") to include in the user prompt. */
+  regionReference?: Record<string, string>;
+  /** Set of valid region keys; territory changes with other keys are ignored. */
+  validRegionKeys?: ReadonlySet<string>;
 }): Promise<{ state: GameState; result: TurnResult }> {
-  const { llm, preset, state, items } = opts;
+  const { llm, preset, state, items, regionReference, validRegionKeys } = opts;
  const system = buildSystemPrompt(preset);
-  const user = buildUserPrompt(state, items);
+  const user = buildUserPrompt(state, items, regionReference);
  const nudge =
    'Your previous output was invalid. Respond with ONLY the JSON object described above for this batch — no prose, no fences.';

@@ -398,7 +411,7 @@ export async function runTurn(opts: {
    };
  }

-  return { state: applyTurnResult(state, result), result };
+  return { state: applyTurnResult(state, result, validRegionKeys), result };
 }

 // --- Advisor (brainstorm) -----------------------------------------------------
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import { createLlmClient } from './llm';
 import { makeStubLlmClient } from './stub';
 import { askAdvisor, queueRoundItem, removeRoundItem, runTurn } from './engine';
 import { buildRegionMap } from './map';
+import { allTerritoryKeys, expandCountriesToKeys, loadRegions, referenceForKeys, validKeys } from './regions';
 import { createPresetStore } from './presets';
 import { openDb, type Db } from './db';

@@ -49,6 +50,9 @@ const dataDir = process.env.DATA_DIR ?? path.join(root, 'data');
 // the e2e config, so honor it as a fallback to keep all three in agreement.
 const PORT = parseInt(process.env.PORT ?? process.env.HISTORY_API_PORT ?? '4321', 10);
 const presetStore = createPresetStore(presetsDir);
+// Load the region-key manifest + geo once at boot (v0.19 #16 P1). A missing file
+// just means region expansion/reference degrade to the raw keys (server still boots).
+loadRegions(root);
 const db: Db = openDb(path.join(dataDir, 'history.db'));
 // LLM_STUB=1 → deterministic stub (tests/e2e/dev without a live model).
 const useStub = process.env.LLM_STUB === '1';
@@ -121,6 +125,10 @@ app.post('/api/games', (req: Request, res) => {
    pending: [],
    version: 1, // the first saved revision; every later mutation bumps it
  };
+  // v0.19 (#16 P1): expand each nation's ISO_A3 country list to the region keys
+  // of all its sub-regions, so ownership (and the choropleth) is at region
+  // granularity from the very first turn. Preset JSONs stay country-level.
+  for (const n of Object.values(state.nations)) n.territory = expandCountriesToKeys(n.territory);
  db.save(state);
  res.json({ game: state });
 });
@@ -227,6 +235,8 @@ app.post('/api/games/:id/jump', async (req, res) => {
      preset,
      state: game,
      items: game.pending,
+      regionReference: referenceForKeys(allTerritoryKeys(game)),
+      validRegionKeys: validKeys(),
    });
    db.save(state);
    broadcast(id, 'turn', { state, result });
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ import { buildRegionMap } from './map';
 import { mapFeatureOwner, nationColor, regionOwner, type RegionMap } from '../shared/protocol';
 import type { GameState } from '../shared/types';

+// Region-key fixtures (v0.19, #16 P1): ownership and the RegionMap are now keyed
+// by region key (one per owned sub-region), not by a parent-country ISO_A3. The
+// keys below are deliberately fake (obviously not real manifest entries) so this
+// test stays self-contained and format-agnostic.
 const state: GameState = {
  id: 'g',
  presetId: 'p',
@@ -16,7 +20,7 @@ const state: GameState = {
      name: 'UK',
      type: 'major',
      stats: { military: 80, economy: 70, stability: 60, population: 50 },
-      territory: ['GBR', 'IRL'],
+      territory: ['albania-aaaa', 'wales-bbbb'],
      relations: {},
    },
    de: {
@@ -24,7 +28,7 @@ const state: GameState = {
      name: 'DE',
      type: 'major',
      stats: { military: 90, economy: 70, stability: 70, population: 90 },
-      territory: ['DEU'],
+      territory: ['brandenburg-cccc'],
      relations: {},
    },
  },
@@ -33,28 +37,28 @@ const state: GameState = {
  version: 1,
 };

-// The RegionMap built from the fixture: the authoritative ISO_A3 → owner source.
+// The RegionMap built from the fixture: the authoritative region key → owner source.
 const regions: RegionMap = buildRegionMap(state);

 describe('buildRegionMap', () => {
-  it('maps each ISO_A3 region to its owner + that nation\'s stable color', () => {
+  it('maps each owned region key to its owner + that nation\'s stable color', () => {
    const m = buildRegionMap(state);
-    expect(m.GBR).toEqual({ color: nationColor('uk'), owner: 'UK', ownerId: 'uk' });
-    expect(m.IRL).toEqual({ color: nationColor('uk'), owner: 'UK', ownerId: 'uk' });
-    expect(m.DEU).toEqual({ color: nationColor('de'), owner: 'DE', ownerId: 'de' });
+    expect(m['albania-aaaa']).toEqual({ color: nationColor('uk'), owner: 'UK', ownerId: 'uk' });
+    expect(m['wales-bbbb']).toEqual({ color: nationColor('uk'), owner: 'UK', ownerId: 'uk' });
+    expect(m['brandenburg-cccc']).toEqual({ color: nationColor('de'), owner: 'DE', ownerId: 'de' });
    // a region nobody owns is simply absent
-    expect(m.FRA).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(m['normandie-dddd']).toBeUndefined();
  });
 });

 describe('regionOwner', () => {
-  it('resolves an owned region\'s ISO_A3 to its owner record', () => {
-    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'GBR')).toEqual({
+  it('resolves an owned region key to its owner record', () => {
+    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'albania-aaaa')).toEqual({
      color: nationColor('uk'),
      owner: 'UK',
      ownerId: 'uk',
    });
-    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'DEU')).toEqual({
+    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'brandenburg-cccc')).toEqual({
      color: nationColor('de'),
      owner: 'DE',
      ownerId: 'de',
@@ -62,11 +66,11 @@ describe('regionOwner', () => {
  });

  it('returns undefined for an unowned region (no RegionMap entry)', () => {
-    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'FRA')).toBeUndefined();
-    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'USA')).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'normandie-dddd')).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(regionOwner(regions, 'yorkshire-eeee')).toBeUndefined();
  });

-  it('returns undefined for an empty or missing code', () => {
+  it('returns undefined for an empty or missing key', () => {
    expect(regionOwner(regions, '')).toBeUndefined();
    expect(regionOwner(regions, null)).toBeUndefined();
    expect(regionOwner(regions, undefined)).toBeUndefined();
@@ -74,28 +78,29 @@ describe('regionOwner', () => {
 });

 /**
- * #6 regression guard (sub-national map). The click/hover handlers resolve the
- * owning nation from a rendered map feature. MapLibre repacks a GeoJSON
- * source's top-level `id` into a *numeric index* when it stores the source, so a
- * feature the map hands back at interaction time has a number for `id`. The
- * choropleth is now sub-national: a feature's id is a sub-region code
- * (`DEU-03`) and its owner lives at the *parent country* (`DEU`), which the
- * client stamps into `properties.parent` (the RegionMap is keyed by that
- * country code, never the sub-region id). This pins the exact data shape and
- * proves the resolution: `mapFeatureOwner` works via `properties.parent`, while
- * the two wrong paths (the repacked numeric `feature.id`, and the sub-region
- * `regionId`, which is not a RegionMap key) do not.
+ * #6 regression guard (sub-national map, region-keyed). The click/hover handlers
+ * resolve the owning nation from a rendered map feature. MapLibre repacks a
+ * GeoJSON source's top-level `id` into a *numeric index* when it stores the
+ * source, so a feature the map hands back at interaction time has a number for
+ * `id`. The choropleth is sub-national: a feature's own sub-region id is a code
+ * (`DEU-03`), and its owner now lives at its **region key** (`brandenburg-cccc`),
+ * which the client stamps into `properties.regionKey` from `region-keys.json`
+ * (the RegionMap is keyed by that key, never the sub-region id nor the repacked
+ * id). This pins the exact data shape and proves the resolution:
+ * `mapFeatureOwner` works via `properties.regionKey`, while the two wrong paths
+ * (the repacked numeric `feature.id`, and the sub-region `regionId`, which is
+ * not a RegionMap key) do not.
 */
-describe('#6 — sub-region owner must be resolved from properties.parent, not the sub-region id / repacked feature.id', () => {
+describe('#6 — sub-region owner must be resolved from properties.regionKey, not the sub-region id / repacked feature.id', () => {
  // The shape MapLibre returns for a sub-region feature after setData(): `id`
  // is a number (repacked), and the stable identifiers live only in properties —
-  // `regionId` (the sub-region code) and `parent` (the ISO_A3 country).
+  // `regionId` (the sub-region code) and `regionKey` (the region key).
  const repackedFeature = {
    id: 0,
-    properties: { name: 'Germany R03', regionId: 'DEU-03', parent: 'DEU' },
+    properties: { name: 'Brandenburg R03', regionId: 'DEU-03', regionKey: 'brandenburg-cccc' },
  };

-  it('resolves the owner from properties.parent (the fix)', () => {
+  it('resolves the owner from properties.regionKey (the fix)', () => {
    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, repackedFeature)).toEqual({
      color: nationColor('de'),
      owner: 'DE',
@@ -104,7 +109,7 @@ describe('#6 — sub-region owner must be resolved from properties.parent, not t
  });

  it('the sub-region regionId is NOT a RegionMap key — resolving from it fails', () => {
-    // 'DEU-03' is a sub-region id; the RegionMap is keyed by the parent 'DEU'.
+    // 'DEU-03' is a sub-region id; the RegionMap is keyed by region key.
    expect(regionOwner(regions, repackedFeature.properties.regionId)).toBeUndefined();
  });

@@ -116,17 +121,17 @@ describe('#6 — sub-region owner must be resolved from properties.parent, not t
 });

 describe('mapFeatureOwner', () => {
-  it('returns undefined for a missing feature, missing parent, or non-string parent', () => {
+  it('returns undefined for a missing feature, missing regionKey, or non-string regionKey', () => {
    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, null)).toBeUndefined();
    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, undefined)).toBeUndefined();
    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, {})).toBeUndefined();
    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: {} })).toBeUndefined();
-    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: { parent: 42 } })).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: { regionKey: 42 } })).toBeUndefined();
  });

-  it('returns undefined for a parent country nobody owns', () => {
-    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: { parent: 'FRA' } })).toBeUndefined();
-    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: { parent: 'USA' } })).toBeUndefined();
+  it('returns undefined for a region key nobody owns', () => {
+    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: { regionKey: 'normandie-dddd' } })).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(mapFeatureOwner(regions, { properties: { regionKey: 'yorkshire-eeee' } })).toBeUndefined();
  });
 });

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-// Build the choropleth payload from a GameState: every ISO_A3 region maps to its
-// owning nation plus that nation's stable color (see shared.nationColor). The
-// client merges this onto public/countries.geo.json and calls source.setData().
+// Build the choropleth payload from a GameState: every region key (see
+// public/region-keys.json) maps to its owning nation plus that nation's stable
+// color (see shared.nationColor). The client merges this onto the sub-national
+// regions.geo.json (resolving each feature by its own region key) and calls
+// source.setData(). Format-agnostic: it maps whatever keys sit in territory.
 import { nationColor, type RegionMap } from '../shared/protocol';
 import type { GameState } from '../shared/types';

@@ -8,8 +10,8 @@ export function buildRegionMap(state: GameState): RegionMap {
  const map: RegionMap = {};
  for (const [id, nation] of Object.entries(state.nations)) {
    const color = nationColor(id);
-    for (const code of nation.territory) {
-      map[code] = { color, owner: nation.name, ownerId: id };
+    for (const key of nation.territory) {
+      map[key] = { color, owner: nation.name, ownerId: id };
    }
  }
  return map;
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+import { afterAll, beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import {
+  allTerritoryKeys,
+  expandCountriesToKeys,
+  hasRegionData,
+  loadRegions,
+  referenceForKeys,
+  regionName,
+  resetRegions,
+  validKeys,
+} from './regions';
+import type { GameState } from '../shared/types';
+
+// The repo root: this file lives in server/, so '..' is the directory holding
+// public/region-keys.json and public/regions.geo.json. cwd-independent (mirrors
+// how server/index.ts locates its root via import.meta.url).
+const root = fileURLToPath(new URL('..', import.meta.url));
+
+describe('regions (region-key loader, v0.19 #16 P1)', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    expect(loadRegions(root)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('loads the full manifest: 1,796 unique valid region keys', () => {
+    expect(hasRegionData()).toBe(true);
+    expect(validKeys().size).toBe(1796);
+  });
+
+  it('expands an ISO_A3 country to the region keys of all its sub-regions', () => {
+    const fra = expandCountriesToKeys(['FRA']);
+    // FRA has 42 sub-regions in the committed dataset.
+    expect(fra).toHaveLength(42);
+    // every expanded key is a real region key
+    for (const k of fra) expect(validKeys().has(k)).toBe(true);
+    // and the reference table labels each one with its parent country
+    const ref = referenceForKeys(fra);
+    expect(Object.keys(ref)).toHaveLength(42);
+    for (const [k, label] of Object.entries(ref)) {
+      expect(label.endsWith('(FRA)')).toBe(true);
+      expect(regionName(k)).toBeTruthy();
+    }
+    // sample known FRA keys, and their exact reference strings
+    expect(fra).toContain('ain-lqtt');
+    expect(ref['ain-lqtt']).toBe('Ain (FRA)');
+    expect(ref['aisne-gstu']).toBe('Aisne (FRA)');
+  });
+
+  it('referenceForKeys labels only known keys and omits unknown ones', () => {
+    const ref = referenceForKeys(['ain-lqtt', 'not-a-real-key-xyz']);
+    expect(ref['ain-lqtt']).toBe('Ain (FRA)');
+    expect(ref['not-a-real-key-xyz']).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('allTerritoryKeys unions every nation\'s territory keys (no overlap)', () => {
+    const state: GameState = {
+      id: 'g',
+      presetId: 'p',
+      presetTitle: 'P',
+      playerNationId: 'uk',
+      turn: 1,
+      date: '1939-09-01',
+      nations: {
+        uk: {
+          id: 'uk',
+          name: 'UK',
+          type: 'major',
+          stats: { military: 80, economy: 70, stability: 60, population: 50 },
+          territory: expandCountriesToKeys(['GBR']),
+          relations: {},
+        },
+        fr: {
+          id: 'fr',
+          name: 'FR',
+          type: 'major',
+          stats: { military: 80, economy: 70, stability: 60, population: 50 },
+          territory: expandCountriesToKeys(['FRA']),
+          relations: {},
+        },
+      },
+      events: [],
+      pending: [],
+      version: 1,
+    };
+    // 16 GBR sub-regions + 42 FRA sub-regions, no overlap between the two.
+    expect(allTerritoryKeys(state).size).toBe(58);
+  });
+
+  describe('graceful degradation with no region data', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => resetRegions());
+
+    it('expands to the raw input, omits references, and reports no data', () => {
+      expect(hasRegionData()).toBe(false);
+      // no manifest -> the country list passes through unchanged (old model)
+      expect(expandCountriesToKeys(['FRA', 'GBR'])).toEqual(['FRA', 'GBR']);
+      expect(referenceForKeys(['FRA'])).toEqual({});
+      expect(validKeys().size).toBe(0);
+      expect(regionName('FRA')).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+  });
+
+  afterAll(() => resetRegions());
+});
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+// Region-key data access (server). Loads the deterministic region-key manifest
+// (public/region-keys.json: stable feature id -> region key) and the sub-national
+// geo (public/regions.geo.json: feature id -> { name, parent }), then joins them
+// into the lookups the region-level ownership model (v0.19, #16 P1) needs:
+//
+//   - expand a nation's ISO_A3 country list -> the region keys of all its sub-regions
+//   - build the LLM "regions" reference table (key -> "name (parent ISO_A3)")
+//   - the set of all valid region keys (to ignore hallucinated keys in applyTurnResult)
+//
+// Deliberately turf-free: it reads the two JSON files with plain JSON.parse and
+// never imports @turf/@types/geojson (importing one pulls @types/geojson into the
+// tsc program and breaks WorldMap.tsx; see the v0.17 changelog note). Loaded once
+// at boot; the accessors below are pure data reads thereafter.
+import { existsSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import type { GameState } from '../shared/types';
+
+/** { name, parent } for one sub-region, where parent is the ISO_A3 country. */
+interface RegionInfo {
+  name: string;
+  parent: string;
+}
+
+interface RegionData {
+  /** stable feature id -> region key (from public/region-keys.json). */
+  idToKey: Record<string, string>;
+  /** region key -> { name, parent }. */
+  keyToInfo: Record<string, RegionInfo>;
+  /** ISO_A3 parent -> region keys of its sub-regions (file order, stable). */
+  keysByCountry: Record<string, string[]>;
+  /** the set of all region keys. */
+  validKeys: Set<string>;
+}
+
+let data: RegionData | null = null;
+
+/**
+ * Load (or reload) the region-key manifest + geo from `root`. Idempotent.
+ * Returns true when both files loaded cleanly. A missing/broken file clears the
+ * data and returns false, so the server still boots and degrades gracefully
+ * (expansion becomes a no-op, ownership falls back to the raw input keys).
+ */
+export function loadRegions(root: string): boolean {
+  const keyPath = path.join(root, 'public', 'region-keys.json');
+  const geoPath = path.join(root, 'public', 'regions.geo.json');
+  if (!existsSync(keyPath) || !existsSync(geoPath)) {
+    data = null;
+    return false;
+  }
+  try {
+    const idToKey = JSON.parse(readFileSync(keyPath, 'utf8')) as Record<string, string>;
+    const geo = JSON.parse(readFileSync(geoPath, 'utf8')) as {
+      features?: Array<{ id?: string | number; properties?: { name?: string; parent?: string } }>;
+    };
+    const keyToInfo: Record<string, RegionInfo> = {};
+    const keysByCountry: Record<string, string[]> = {};
+    const validKeys = new Set<string>();
+    for (const f of geo.features ?? []) {
+      const id = f.id == null ? '' : String(f.id);
+      const key = idToKey[id];
+      if (!key) continue; // a geo feature with no manifest entry is skipped
+      const name = typeof f.properties?.name === 'string' ? f.properties.name : '';
+      const parent = typeof f.properties?.parent === 'string' ? f.properties.parent : '';
+      keyToInfo[key] = { name, parent };
+      validKeys.add(key);
+      if (parent) (keysByCountry[parent] ??= []).push(key);
+    }
+    data = { idToKey, keyToInfo, keysByCountry, validKeys };
+    return validKeys.size > 0;
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error('[regions] failed to load region data', err);
+    data = null;
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+/** Test/dev seam: drop the loaded data (the next accessors behave as "no data"). */
+export function resetRegions(): void {
+  data = null;
+}
+
+/** True when the manifest + geo loaded cleanly. */
+export function hasRegionData(): boolean {
+  return data !== null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Expand a nation's ISO_A3 country list to the region keys of all its sub-regions
+ * (file order, deduped). This is what turns a preset's country-level territory
+ * into region-level ownership at game creation. Returns the input unchanged when
+ * no region data is loaded (graceful degradation — behaves like the old model).
+ */
+export function expandCountriesToKeys(countries: string[]): string[] {
+  if (!data) return countries;
+  const out: string[] = [];
+  const seen = new Set<string>();
+  for (const c of countries) {
+    for (const key of data.keysByCountry[c] ?? []) {
+      if (!seen.has(key)) {
+        seen.add(key);
+        out.push(key);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Build the LLM reference table: region key -> "<name> (<parent ISO_A3>)", e.g.
+ * `moselle-rygy -> "Moselle (FRA)"`. Only the given keys are included (the caller
+ * passes the game's owned-region universe) so the prompt stays bounded.
+ */
+export function referenceForKeys(keys: Iterable<string>): Record<string, string> {
+  const out: Record<string, string> = {};
+  if (!data) return out;
+  for (const key of keys) {
+    const info = data.keyToInfo[key];
+    if (info) out[key] = info.parent ? `${info.name} (${info.parent})` : info.name;
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** The region key's human name (for the dossier), or undefined if unknown. */
+export function regionName(key: string): string | undefined {
+  return data?.keyToInfo[key]?.name;
+}
+
+/** The union of every nation's territory region keys (the game's region universe). */
+export function allTerritoryKeys(state: GameState): Set<string> {
+  const out = new Set<string>();
+  for (const n of Object.values(state.nations)) {
+    for (const key of n.territory) out.add(key);
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** The set of all valid region keys (to ignore hallucinated keys in applyTurnResult). */
+export function validKeys(): ReadonlySet<string> {
+  return data ? data.validKeys : new Set<string>();
+}
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export interface RelationChange {
  set: RelationStatus;
 }

-/** A nation gains/loses ISO_A3 regions this turn. */
+/** A nation gains/loses region keys (see `public/region-keys.json`) this turn. */
 export interface TerritoryChange {
  nation: string;
  gain: string[];
@@ -48,26 +48,32 @@ export interface TurnResult {
  territoryChanges: TerritoryChange[];
 }

-/** Per-region map payload: ISO_A3 -> owning nation + its stable color. */
+/** Per-region map payload: region key -> owning nation + its stable color. */
 export interface RegionOwner {
  color: string;
  owner: string;
  ownerId: string;
 }
+/**
+ * The authoritative ownership map: a **region key** (see `public/region-keys.json`)
+ * -> the owning nation + its stable color. Owned at sub-region granularity (v0.19,
+ * #16 P1); a key absent from this map is unowned (rendered grey).
+ */
 export type RegionMap = Record<string, RegionOwner>;

 /**
 * Look up the owner record from the authoritative RegionMap by a RegionMap key.
- * The RegionMap is keyed by the **parent country's** ISO_A3 code (ownership and
- * the LLM stay at country granularity — see #16), so `key` is a country code such
- * as `DEU`, never a sub-region id such as `DEU-03`. Returns `undefined` for an
- * empty/missing key or an unowned country.
+ * The RegionMap is keyed by **region key** (see `public/region-keys.json`) — one
+ * per owned sub-region (v0.19, #16 P1) — so `key` is a region key such as
+ * `moselle-rygy`, never a raw feature id such as `FR-57` and never a
+ * parent-country ISO_A3. Returns `undefined` for an empty/missing key or an
+ * unowned region.
 *
 * Pure + shared: the primitive "key → owner" lookup. The *map feature → owner*
 * resolution (deciding which key to pass) lives in {@link mapFeatureOwner} below,
- * which reads the feature's `properties.parent` — never the repacked top-level
- * `id` (MapLibre turns it into a numeric index, the "no owner" bug #6) and never
- * the sub-region id.
+ * which reads the feature's stamped `properties.regionKey` — never the repacked
+ * top-level `id` (MapLibre turns it into a numeric index, the "no owner" bug #6)
+ * and never the sub-region id.
 */
 export function regionOwner(regions: RegionMap, key: string | null | undefined): RegionOwner | undefined {
  if (!key) return undefined;
@@ -76,22 +82,23 @@ export function regionOwner(regions: RegionMap, key: string | null | undefined):

 /**
 * Resolve the owning-nation record for a **rendered map feature** from the
- * authoritative RegionMap. The choropleth renders sub-national regions, but the
- * RegionMap is keyed by the *parent country's* ISO_A3 (not the sub-region's own
- * id), so a feature's owner is found via its `properties.parent` (the ISO_A3 the
- * client stamps from the GeoJSON `parent` property — see WorldMap) and then
- * `regionOwner`. This is the single shared source of truth for that resolution,
- * so the "use `parent`, never the sub-region `id`/repacked `feature.id`" rule
- * lives in one tested place rather than in the React component.
+ * authoritative RegionMap. The choropleth renders sub-national regions, and the
+ * RegionMap is now keyed by **region key** (one per sub-region, v0.19 #16 P1),
+ * so a feature's owner is found via its `properties.regionKey` — the region key
+ * the client stamps from `public/region-keys.json` by the feature's stable id
+ * (see WorldMap) — and then `regionOwner`. This is the single shared source of
+ * truth for that resolution, so the "use `regionKey`, never the sub-region `id`
+ * / repacked `feature.id`" rule lives in one tested place rather than in the
+ * React component.
 *
- * Returns `undefined` for a missing feature/parent or an unowned country.
+ * Returns `undefined` for a missing feature/regionKey or an unowned region.
 */
 export function mapFeatureOwner(
  regions: RegionMap,
-  feature: { properties?: { parent?: unknown } } | null | undefined,
+  feature: { properties?: { regionKey?: unknown } } | null | undefined,
 ): RegionOwner | undefined {
-  const parent = feature?.properties?.parent;
-  return regionOwner(regions, typeof parent === 'string' ? parent : '');
+  const regionKey = feature?.properties?.regionKey;
+  return regionOwner(regions, typeof regionKey === 'string' ? regionKey : '');
 }

 /** Server -> client Server-Sent Events payload (see server/index.ts /sse). */
@@ -26,8 +26,10 @@ export const RELATION_STATUSES: RelationStatus[] = [
 ];

 /**
- * A single nation in the world. `territory` holds ISO_A3 codes; the map colors
- * each of those regions with this nation's stable color (see protocol.nationColor).
+ * A single nation in the world. `territory` holds **region keys** (see
+ * `public/region-keys.json`) — one per owned sub-region, so the choropleth can
+ * color individual sub-regions, not whole countries (v0.19, #16 P1). The map
+ * resolves each sub-region's owner by its region key (see protocol.mapFeatureOwner).
 */
 export interface Nation {
  id: string;
@@ -590,11 +590,12 @@ function GameScreen({
  // Which nation's dossier to show. Defaults to the player; remounts per game.
  const [viewingId, setViewingId] = useState(game.playerNationId);
  // When the dossier target was set by a map click, remember which sub-region
-  // (its own name + parent country) was clicked, for a small label in the
-  // dossier. Cleared when the user picks a nation via the manual Inspect select.
-  const [selectedRegion, setSelectedRegion] = useState<{ parent?: string; name?: string } | null>(null);
+  // was clicked, for a small label in the dossier. The label shows only the
+  // region's name. Cleared when the user picks a nation via the manual Inspect
+  // select.
+  const [selectedRegion, setSelectedRegion] = useState<{ name?: string } | null>(null);
  const focusNation = useCallback(
-    (id: string, info?: { parent?: string; name?: string }) => {
+    (id: string, info?: { name?: string }) => {
      setViewingId(id);
      setSelectedRegion(info ?? null);
    },
@@ -779,8 +780,7 @@ function GameScreen({
          </Select>
          {selectedRegion && (
            <div className="mt-1.5 truncate text-[11px] text-muted-foreground" data-testid="selected-region">
-              Selected: {selectedRegion.name ?? selectedRegion.parent ?? 'region'}
-              {selectedRegion.parent ? ` (${selectedRegion.parent})` : ''}
+              Selected: {selectedRegion.name ?? 'region'}
            </div>
          )}
        </div>
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
+import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 import { Badge } from './ui/badge';
 import { Card, CardContent, CardDescription, CardHeader, CardTitle } from './ui/card';
 import StatBar from './StatBar';
 import { nationColor } from '@shared/protocol';
 import { RELATION_COLORS } from '@/lib/colors';
+import { keyToName } from '@/lib/regions';
 import type { Nation, RelationStatus } from '@shared/types';

 /** Human labels for a diplomatic status (the raw value is kept in data-attrs). */
@@ -38,6 +40,23 @@ export default function NationPanel({ nation, nations, isPlayer, inWindow = fals
  const relations = Object.entries(nation.relations).sort(([a], [b]) => a.localeCompare(b));
  const regions = nation.territory;

+  // Human region names for the territory chips (region key -> name), loaded once
+  // (cached in @/lib/regions). A key with no known name falls back to the raw key.
+  const [keyNames, setKeyNames] = useState<Record<string, string>>({});
+  useEffect(() => {
+    let cancelled = false;
+    keyToName()
+      .then((m) => {
+        if (!cancelled) setKeyNames(m);
+      })
+      .catch(() => {
+        /* names are cosmetic — a failed fetch just leaves the raw keys */
+      });
+    return () => {
+      cancelled = true;
+    };
+  }, []);
+
  const identity = (
    <div className="flex items-center gap-3">
      <span
@@ -95,15 +114,20 @@ export default function NationPanel({ nation, nations, isPlayer, inWindow = fals
        </h3>
        {regions.length > 0 ? (
          <div className="flex flex-wrap gap-1.5">
-            {regions.map((code) => (
-              <span
-                key={code}
-                className="rounded border px-1.5 py-0.5 text-xs tabular-nums"
-                style={{ borderColor: `${color}66`, color, background: `${color}12` }}
-              >
-                {code}
-              </span>
-            ))}
+            {regions.map((key) => {
+              const label = keyNames[key] ?? key;
+              return (
+                <span
+                  key={key}
+                  className="rounded border px-1.5 py-0.5 text-xs"
+                  style={{ borderColor: `${color}66`, color, background: `${color}12` }}
+                  title={key}
+                  data-region-key={key}
+                >
+                  {label}
+                </span>
+              );
+            })}
          </div>
        ) : (
          <p className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">No territory.</p>
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ maplibregl.setWorkerUrl(workerUrl);
 import { mapFeatureOwner, type RegionMap, type RegionOwner } from '@shared/protocol';
 import type { Nation } from '@shared/types';
 import { cn } from '@/lib/utils';
+import { idToKey } from '@/lib/regions';

 // Minimal GeoJSON types (avoids a hard @types/geojson dependency). The choropleth
 // source is the sub-national `regions.geo.json`: each feature is a sub-region with
@@ -101,26 +102,32 @@ function cameraForPreset(presetId: string): { center: [number, number]; zoom: nu

 /**
 * Stamp the current ownership + colors onto a clone of the sub-national base geo.
- * Ownership and the LLM stay at **country** granularity (#16, PR 2): a nation
- * owns whole countries, so every sub-region of a country shares that country's
- * owning nation's color — the map looks like the old country choropleth, but
- * subdivided into finer cells. Each sub-region therefore carries:
+ * Ownership is at **region-key** granularity (v0.19, #16 P1): each sub-region has
+ * its own region key (from `public/region-keys.json`, looked up by the feature's
+ * stable id) and the RegionMap is keyed by that region key, so a single
+ * sub-region can change owner while its neighbours keep theirs. Each feature
+ * therefore carries:
 *
 *  - `regionId`  – its own sub-region id (e.g. `FRA-03`), kept in a property that
 *                  survives into the features MapLibre hands back on click/hover
 *                  (the top-level `id` is repacked into a numeric index, #6);
- *  - `parent`    – the parent country's ISO_A3 (e.g. `FRA`), the RegionMap key;
- *  - `fill`      – the owning nation's stable color (from `RegionMap[parent]`);
- *  - `owner`/`ownerId` – that nation's name/id (empty for an unowned country);
+ *  - `regionKey` – the region key (e.g. `moselle-rygy`), the RegionMap key;
+ *  - `fill`      – the owning nation's stable color (from `RegionMap[regionKey]`);
+ *  - `owner`/`ownerId` – that nation's name/id (empty for an unowned region);
 *  - `stroke`    – a per-border alpha (owned brighter than unowned);
 *  - `isPlayer`  – 1 when the owning nation is the player (drives the amber
 *                  player-highlight border).
 *
- * Crucially, the owner lookup keys the RegionMap by `properties.parent` (the
- * country ISO_A3), **never** by the sub-region id — the RegionMap has no
- * `FRA-03` entries, only `FRA`.
+ * Crucially, the owner lookup keys the RegionMap by the stamped
+ * `properties.regionKey`, **never** by the sub-region id or the repacked
+ * top-level `id` — the RegionMap has no `FRA-03` entries, only region keys.
 */
-function applyRegions(geo: FeatureCollection, regions: RegionMap, playerNationId: string): FeatureCollection {
+function applyRegions(
+  geo: FeatureCollection,
+  regions: RegionMap,
+  playerNationId: string,
+  idKey: Record<string, string>,
+): FeatureCollection {
  const out: FeatureCollection = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(geo));
  for (const f of out.features) {
    f.properties = f.properties ?? {};
@@ -128,11 +135,11 @@ function applyRegions(geo: FeatureCollection, regions: RegionMap, playerNationId
    // survives into the rendered features (the top-level `id` gets repacked).
    const subId = f.id == null ? '' : String(f.id);
    f.properties.regionId = subId;
-    // Ownership lives at the parent country: resolve `properties.parent`
-    // (the ISO_A3) against the RegionMap. Never the sub-region id.
-    const parent = typeof f.properties.parent === 'string' ? f.properties.parent : '';
-    f.properties.parent = parent;
-    const r = parent ? regions[parent] : undefined;
+    // Resolve this feature's **region key** from the manifest (id -> key) and
+    // key the RegionMap by it — never the sub-region id or the repacked id.
+    const key = idKey[subId] ?? '';
+    f.properties.regionKey = key;
+    const r = key ? regions[key] : undefined;
    if (r) {
      f.properties.fill = r.color;
      f.properties.owner = r.owner;
@@ -151,16 +158,21 @@ function applyRegions(geo: FeatureCollection, regions: RegionMap, playerNationId
 }

 /**
- * Build a FeatureCollection of just the sub-regions whose **parent** country is
- * in `parents` (cloned). Used by the territory-change flash: a turn changes a
- * whole *country* (the RegionMap is ISO_A3-keyed), so a changed country's code
- * must light up **all** of its sub-regions, not a single feature.
+ * Build a FeatureCollection of just the sub-regions whose **region key** is in
+ * `keys` (cloned). Used by the territory-change flash: a turn can change
+ * individual sub-regions (the RegionMap is region-keyed, v0.19 #16 P1), so each
+ * changed region key lights up exactly the sub-region that owns it.
 */
-function featuresByParents(geo: FeatureCollection, parents: Iterable<string>): FeatureCollection {
-  const set = new Set(parents);
+function featuresByRegionKeys(
+  geo: FeatureCollection,
+  keys: Iterable<string>,
+  idKey: Record<string, string>,
+): FeatureCollection {
+  const set = new Set(keys);
  const features = geo.features.filter((f) => {
-    const parent = f.properties?.parent;
-    return typeof parent === 'string' && set.has(parent);
+    const id = f.id == null ? '' : String(f.id);
+    const key = idKey[id] ?? '';
+    return key !== '' && set.has(key);
  });
  return { type: 'FeatureCollection', features: JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(features)) };
 }
@@ -174,19 +186,20 @@ function statRow(label: string, value?: number): string {
 }

 /**
- * Compact hover tooltip: the sub-region's name, its parent country (ISO_A3), its
- * owner (color-chipped), and 1–2 key stats. When the parent country has no
- * owning nation, a minimal "No owner" card is shown instead.
+ * Compact hover tooltip: the sub-region's name, its **current owner**
+ * (color-chipped), and 1–2 key stats. When the region's country has no owning
+ * nation, a minimal "No owner" card is shown instead. The static
+ * parent-country code (`properties.parent`) is deliberately NOT printed here —
+ * it never updates when ownership is transferred, so only the live owner chip
+ * (resolved from the RegionMap) is shown.
 */
-function hoverHtml(subRegionName: string, parentCode: string, region?: RegionOwner, nation?: Nation): string {
+function hoverHtml(subRegionName: string, region?: RegionOwner, nation?: Nation): string {
  if (!region || !nation) {
-    return `<div class="hm-popup"><div class="hm-popup-title">${esc(subRegionName || parentCode || 'Unclaimed')}</div><div class="hm-popup-sub">No owner</div></div>`;
+    return `<div class="hm-popup"><div class="hm-popup-title">${esc(subRegionName || 'Unclaimed')}</div><div class="hm-popup-sub">No owner</div></div>`;
  }
  const stats = [statRow('Mil', nation.stats.military), statRow('Eco', nation.stats.economy)].join('');
-  const sub = parentCode ? `<div class="hm-popup-sub">${esc(parentCode)}</div>` : '';
  return `<div class="hm-popup">
    <div class="hm-popup-title">${esc(subRegionName || region.owner)}</div>
-    ${sub}
    <div class="hm-popup-owner"><span class="hm-chip" style="background:${region.color}"></span>${esc(region.owner)}</div>
    <div class="hm-stats">${stats}</div>
  </div>`;
@@ -202,37 +215,36 @@ interface Props {
  className?: string;
  /**
   * Called with a region's owning-nation id when a sub-region is clicked, so the
-   * dossier switches to that nation. For a sub-region, the owner is the parent
-   * country's owning nation. The optional `info` carries the clicked sub-region's
-   * own id/name and its parent country's ISO_A3, for a small "which region" label
-   * in the dossier. Not called for unowned regions (the dossier keeps its
-   * current target). See the component doc for the full behavior.
+   * dossier switches to that nation. The optional `info` carries the clicked
+   * sub-region's name, for a small "which region" label in the dossier. Not
+   * called for unowned regions (the dossier keeps its current target). See the
+   * component doc for the full behavior.
   */
-  onFocusNation?: (id: string, info?: { parent?: string; name?: string }) => void;
+  onFocusNation?: (id: string, info?: { name?: string }) => void;
 }

 /**
 * World basemap (MapLibre GL) + a **sub-national** choropleth. The map renders
 * the finer `regions.geo.json` dataset: each country is subdivided into
 * ~100–200 km sub-regions, drawn as a finer choropleth with thin internal border
- * lines. Ownership and the LLM stay at **country** granularity (#16, PR 2): a
- * nation owns whole countries, so all of a country's sub-regions share that
- * country's owning-nation color. Rendered as a fixed, full-viewport background
- * layer (z-0) behind the floating HUD windows: a dark-navy basemap with subtle
- * terrain, per-nation stable fills (uniform per country, the choropleth is the
- * star), thin sub-region borders, a brighter/thicker amber border for the
- * player's countries, a hover tooltip (sub-region name + parent country + owner
- * + key stats), a **click that switches the dossier to the sub-region's parent
- * country's owning nation** (no popup — see #7), a transient flash when a
- * country's owner changes (lighting up all its sub-regions), and a per-scenario
- * initial camera.
+ * lines. Ownership is at **region-key** granularity (v0.19, #16 P1): each
+ * sub-region has its own region key (from `public/region-keys.json`, looked up
+ * by the feature's stable id) and the RegionMap is keyed by that key, so a
+ * single sub-region can change owner independently of its neighbours. Rendered
+ * as a fixed, full-viewport background layer (z-0) behind the floating HUD
+ * windows: a dark-navy basemap with subtle terrain, per-nation stable fills,
+ * thin sub-region borders, a brighter/thicker amber border for the player's
+ * regions, a hover tooltip (sub-region name + current owner + key stats), a
+ * **click that switches the dossier to the sub-region's owning nation** (no
+ * popup — see #7), a transient flash when a sub-region's owner changes, and a
+ * per-scenario initial camera.
 *
 * Ownership for a hovered/clicked sub-region is resolved from the authoritative
- * RegionMap by its **parent country's** ISO_A3 code (`properties.parent`, via
+ * RegionMap by its stamped **region key** (`properties.regionKey`, via
 * `mapFeatureOwner` in @shared/protocol) — never from the feature's top-level
 * `id` (MapLibre repacks it into a numeric index at interaction time, #6) and
- * never from the sub-region id (not a RegionMap key). Unowned countries (no
- * RegionMap entry for the parent) simply do not change the dossier.
+ * never from the raw sub-region id (not a RegionMap key). Unowned sub-regions
+ * (no RegionMap entry for their key) simply do not change the dossier.
 *
 * Zoom and pan are driven directly by the user (MapLibre wheel/trackpad + drag)
 * — no floating control and no external API.
@@ -248,6 +260,9 @@ export default function WorldMap({
  const containerRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
  const mapRef = useRef<maplibregl.Map | null>(null);
  const baseGeoRef = useRef<FeatureCollection | null>(null);
+  // The region-key manifest (feature id -> region key), loaded once; used to
+  // stamp each feature's region key and to expand the flash to its sub-region.
+  const idKeyRef = useRef<Record<string, string> | null>(null);
  // Latest props, so the mount effect's (re)establish closure always sees them.
  const regionsRef = useRef(regions);
  const nationsRef = useRef(nations);
@@ -303,17 +318,28 @@ export default function WorldMap({
              return g;
            });

+    // The region-key manifest (feature id -> region key), fetched once and
+    // cached in a ref so both the paint path and the flash can resolve keys.
+    const loadIdKey = (): Promise<Record<string, string>> =>
+      idKeyRef.current
+        ? Promise.resolve(idKeyRef.current)
+        : idToKey().then((k) => {
+            idKeyRef.current = k;
+            return k;
+          });
+
    const emptyFC = (): FeatureCollection => ({ type: 'FeatureCollection', features: [] });

    // Transient flash: pulse a bright outline over the changed regions, then fade
    // to zero over a few seconds and self-clean. Idempotent per call. `codes` are
-    // parent-country ISO_A3 codes (a turn changes whole countries); each lights
-    // up all of that country's sub-regions.
+    // region keys (a turn can change individual sub-regions, v0.19 #16 P1); each
+    // lights up exactly the sub-region that owns that key.
    function animateFlash(codes: string[]) {
      const geo = baseGeoRef.current;
+      const idKey = idKeyRef.current;
      const src = map.getSource(FLASH_SOURCE) as GeoSource | undefined;
-      if (!geo || !src || cancelled) return;
-      src.setData(featuresByParents(geo, codes));
+      if (!geo || !idKey || !src || cancelled) return;
+      src.setData(featuresByRegionKeys(geo, codes, idKey));
      if (!map.getLayer(FLASH_LINE)) {
        // Defensive re-add (normally created by ensureLayers). Keep it beneath the
        // hover highlight when that layer exists; otherwise just append.
@@ -349,15 +375,14 @@ export default function WorldMap({
    // The sub-region a hovered/clicked feature belongs to is identified by its
    // stable sub-region id in `properties.regionId` (stamped by `applyRegions`),
    // and its **owner** is resolved from the authoritative RegionMap via the
-    // feature's `properties.parent` (the parent country's ISO_A3) through
+    // feature's stamped `properties.regionKey` through
    // `mapFeatureOwner` — never from the repacked top-level `id` (a numeric
-    // index, #6) and never from the sub-region id (not a RegionMap key).
+    // index, #6) and never from the raw sub-region id (not a RegionMap key).
    const onHover = (e: maplibregl.MapLayerMouseEvent) => {
      const f = e.features?.[0];
      if (!f) return;
-      const p = f.properties as { name?: string; regionId?: string; parent?: string };
+      const p = f.properties as { name?: string; regionId?: string };
      const subId = typeof p?.regionId === 'string' ? p.regionId : '';
-      const parent = typeof p?.parent === 'string' ? p.parent : '';
      if (subId && subId !== lastHoverId) {
        lastHoverId = subId;
        const geo = baseGeoRef.current;
@@ -373,7 +398,7 @@ export default function WorldMap({
      const nation = region ? nationsRef.current[region.ownerId] : undefined;
      hoverPopup
        .setLngLat(e.lngLat)
-        .setHTML(hoverHtml(p?.name ?? parent ?? subId, parent, region, nation))
+        .setHTML(hoverHtml(p?.name ?? subId, region, nation))
        .addTo(map);
      map.getCanvas().style.cursor = 'pointer';
    };
@@ -386,23 +411,19 @@ export default function WorldMap({
    };

    // #7: a click does NOT open a popup — it switches the dossier to the region's
-    // owning nation. For a sub-region, the owner is the **parent country's**
-    // owning nation, resolved from `properties.parent` (the ISO_A3) via the
-    // RegionMap (never the repacked top-level `f.id`, #6, and never the
-    // sub-region id). A sub-region whose parent country has no owner leaves the
-    // current dossier target unchanged — never a broken dossier.
+    // owning nation, resolved from the feature's stamped `properties.regionKey`
+    // via the RegionMap (never the repacked top-level `f.id`, #6, and never the
+    // raw sub-region id). A sub-region whose key has no owner leaves the current
+    // dossier target unchanged — never a broken dossier.
    const onClick = (e: maplibregl.MapLayerMouseEvent) => {
      const f = e.features?.[0];
      if (!f) return;
      const region = mapFeatureOwner(regionsRef.current, f);
      if (!region?.ownerId) return;
-      // Carry the clicked sub-region's identity (own id/name + parent ISO_A3) so
-      // the dossier can show which region was selected.
-      const p = f.properties as { regionId?: string; parent?: string; name?: string };
-      const info = {
-        parent: typeof p?.parent === 'string' ? p.parent : undefined,
-        name: typeof p?.name === 'string' ? p.name : undefined,
-      };
+      // Carry the clicked sub-region's name so the dossier can show which region
+      // was selected.
+      const p = f.properties as { name?: string };
+      const info = { name: typeof p?.name === 'string' ? p.name : undefined };
      onFocusNationRef.current?.(region.ownerId, info);
    };

@@ -430,34 +451,40 @@ export default function WorldMap({
      }
    };

-    // Stamp ownership + colors onto the regions source (no-op until geo loads).
+    // Stamp ownership + colors onto the regions source (no-op until both the
+    // base geo and the region-key manifest are loaded).
    const paintRegions = () => {
      const geo = baseGeoRef.current;
+      const idKey = idKeyRef.current;
      const src = map.getSource(REGIONS_SOURCE) as GeoSource | undefined;
-      if (!geo || !src) return;
-      src.setData(applyRegions(geo, regionsRef.current, playerRef.current));
+      if (!geo || !idKey || !src) return;
+      src.setData(applyRegions(geo, regionsRef.current, playerRef.current, idKey));
    };

    const ensureLayers = async () => {
      if (cancelled) return;
      ensureSources();
-      if (baseGeoRef.current) {
-        paintRegions();
-      } else {
+      if (!baseGeoRef.current) {
        try {
          await loadGeo();
        } catch (err) {
          console.error('failed to load regions geojson', err);
        }
-        if (cancelled) return;
-        paintRegions();
      }
+      if (!idKeyRef.current) {
+        try {
+          await loadIdKey();
+        } catch (err) {
+          console.error('failed to load region keys', err);
+        }
+      }
+      if (cancelled) return;
+      paintRegions();
      if (!map.getLayer(FILL_LAYER)) {
        // The choropleth is the star: a high opacity so the vivid per-nation
        // colors read clearly even on the dark background / over the terrain.
-        // Every sub-region carries its parent country's owner color, so a whole
-        // country reads as one uniform fill — same as the old country map, but
-        // subdivided.
+        // Each sub-region carries its own owning nation's color (v0.19 #16 P1),
+        // so the fill traces region-key ownership, not country borders.
        map.addLayer({
          id: FILL_LAYER,
          type: 'fill',
@@ -537,28 +564,30 @@ export default function WorldMap({
    };
  }, []);

-  // Re-color the choropleth whenever ownership changes, and flash any country
-  // (all of its sub-regions) whose owner changed since the last update (a
-  // transient, self-cleaning pulse). The diff is over the ISO_A3-keyed RegionMap;
-  // `animateFlash` expands each changed country to every one of its sub-regions.
+  // Re-color the choropleth whenever ownership changes, and flash each
+  // sub-region whose owner changed since the last update (a transient,
+  // self-cleaning pulse). The diff is over the region-keyed RegionMap (v0.19
+  // #16 P1); `animateFlash` lights up exactly the sub-region for each changed
+  // key.
  useEffect(() => {
    const map = mapRef.current;
    const geo = baseGeoRef.current;
+    const idKey = idKeyRef.current;
    const cur = regions;
    const prev = prevRegionsRef.current;
    prevRegionsRef.current = cur;
    const wasPrimed = primedRef.current;
    if (Object.keys(cur).length > 0) primedRef.current = true;

-    if (map && geo) {
+    if (map && geo && idKey) {
      const src = map.getSource(REGIONS_SOURCE) as GeoSource | undefined;
-      if (src) void src.setData(applyRegions(geo, cur, playerNationId));
+      if (src) void src.setData(applyRegions(geo, cur, playerNationId, idKey));
    }

-    if (wasPrimed && prev) {
+    if (wasPrimed && prev && idKey) {
      const changed = new Set<string>();
-      for (const code of new Set([...Object.keys(prev), ...Object.keys(cur)])) {
-        if ((prev[code]?.ownerId ?? '') !== (cur[code]?.ownerId ?? '')) changed.add(code);
+      for (const key of new Set([...Object.keys(prev), ...Object.keys(cur)])) {
+        if ((prev[key]?.ownerId ?? '') !== (cur[key]?.ownerId ?? '')) changed.add(key);
      }
      if (changed.size > 0) flashApiRef.current?.([...changed]);
    }
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+// Client-side region-key data access. Fetches the two static JSON files served
+// from public/ and builds the lookups the region-level UI needs:
+//   - idToKey():   feature id -> region key (to stamp each map feature + resolve owner)
+//   - keyToName(): region key -> human name (to show region names in the dossier)
+// Each is fetched once and cached (Promise singleton) so WorldMap and NationPanel
+// share a single fetch. Same-origin relative URLs (proxy/Traefik safe) — never a
+// hardcoded origin.
+type GeoLike = {
+  features?: Array<{ id?: string | number; properties?: { name?: string } }>;
+};
+
+let idKeyPromise: Promise<Record<string, string>> | null = null;
+let keyNamePromise: Promise<Record<string, string>> | null = null;
+
+async function fetchJson<T>(url: string): Promise<T> {
+  const r = await fetch(url);
+  if (!r.ok) throw new Error(`${url} → HTTP ${r.status}`);
+  return (await r.json()) as T;
+}
+
+/** feature id (from regions.geo.json) -> region key (from region-keys.json). */
+export function idToKey(): Promise<Record<string, string>> {
+  idKeyPromise ??= fetchJson<Record<string, string>>('/region-keys.json');
+  return idKeyPromise;
+}
+
+/**
+ * region key -> human region name. Built by joining region-keys.json (id -> key)
+ * with regions.geo.json (id -> properties.name). A key with no known name is
+ * simply absent (callers fall back to the raw key).
+ */
+export function keyToName(): Promise<Record<string, string>> {
+  keyNamePromise ??= Promise.all([idToKey(), fetchJson<GeoLike>('/regions.geo.json')]).then(
+    ([keys, geo]) => {
+      const out: Record<string, string> = {};
+      for (const f of geo.features ?? []) {
+        const id = f.id == null ? '' : String(f.id);
+        const key = keys[id];
+        const name = f.properties?.name;
+        if (key && typeof name === 'string') out[key] = name;
+      }
+      return out;
+    },
+  );
+  return keyNamePromise;
+}
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
kamilkrzywda	b9ac79c57f	Bump to v0.19.0: region-level ownership (Part 1 of #16 ) CI / build + unit + e2e (pull_request) Successful in 1m36s Details Version 0.19.0 + changelog. Breaking: pre-v0.19 saved games are dropped (territory now holds region keys, not ISO_A3 codes) — deploy wipes the history-data volume.	2026-10-14 09:15:33 +00:00
kamilkrzywda	1c64aa1da4	Tests: region-key contract (map rewrite + regions loader + engine) (v0.19 P1 of #16 ) - map.test.ts: rewrite the fixture for region keys; the #6 regression guard now proves the owner resolves via properties.regionKey while the repacked numeric feature.id and the sub-region regionId do not. - regions.test.ts (new): the loader sees 1,796 valid keys; FRA expands to its 42 sub-region keys (all valid, all labelled '… (FRA)'); allTerritoryKeys unions correctly; and with no data it degrades to the raw input. - engine.test.ts: buildUserPrompt includes a regions table only when provided; applyTurnResult with a validKeys set applies real keys and ignores bogus ones, and without one applies all (the legacy/unit path).	2026-10-14 09:14:24 +00:00
kamilkrzywda	29927bae34	Flip the client to region-key resolution + region names in the dossier (v0.19 P1 of #16 ) - src/lib/regions.ts (new): cached, turf-free same-origin fetches of /region-keys.json (feature id -> key) and /regions.geo.json (id -> name) so WorldMap and NationPanel share one fetch each. - WorldMap.tsx: stamps each feature's properties.regionKey (from the manifest, by its stable id) and resolves owner / flash / hover / click from that key via the shared mapFeatureOwner; the per-region flash lights the exact sub-region whose owner changed; click carries only the sub-region name. - NationPanel.tsx: territory chips show the region's human name (falling back to the raw key) with the key in the title / data-attr. - App.tsx: the selected-region dossier label drops the now-unused parent code.	2026-10-14 09:14:17 +00:00
kamilkrzywda	325bdc5255	Flip ownership to region keys: shared contract + server (v0.19 P1 of #16 ) The single source of truth now keys ownership by region key (one per owned sub-region) instead of a parent-country ISO_A3: - shared/types.ts, shared/protocol.ts: TerritoryChange / RegionMap / regionOwner doc flips; mapFeatureOwner now reads the feature's stamped properties.regionKey (never the repacked numeric feature.id, nor the sub-region id — the #6 guard). - server/regions.ts (new, turf-free): loads region-keys.json + regions.geo.json once at boot; expands a nation's ISO_A3 list to its sub-regions' keys, builds the LLM 'regions' reference table (key -> "name (parent)"), and exposes the set of valid keys. Degrades gracefully when the files are missing. - server/engine.ts: buildSystemPrompt instructs the model to use region keys; buildUserPrompt gains an optional regionReference table; applyTurnResult gains an optional validKeys set so hallucinated keys are ignored. - server/index.ts: loads region data at boot; expands each nation's country list to region keys at game creation; the jump route passes the reference + valid keys through runTurn. The stub is unchanged (it emits an empty, region-key-conformant territoryChanges).	2026-10-14 09:14:10 +00:00
kamilkrzywda	2cfa2f78f9	Add region-keys.test.ts: 1,796 unique <slug>-<4char> keys, geo-id join (v0.19 P1 of #16 )	2026-10-14 08:32:36 +00:00
kamilkrzywda	2b84c34f41	Add region-key manifest (build:region-keys) + public/region-keys.json (v0.19 P1 of #16 ) Deterministic <name-slug>-<4char> key per sub-region: name via NFKD strip + fold table (ə ø ð đ œ ł) + a-z0-9 collapse; 4-char from FNV-1a of the stable feature id, salted on within-slug collision so all 1,796 keys are unique. Builtins only (no @turf). Idempotent (byte-identical on re-run).	2026-10-14 08:32:36 +00:00
kamilkrzywda	9c29779572	Merge pull request 'Region hover/selected shows current owner, not stale parent-country code (v0.18.0)' (#33 ) from fix/region-display-owner into master CI / build + unit + e2e (push) Successful in 2m32s Details	2026-10-13 21:15:45 +02:00
kamilkrzywda	3cd8dcecfa	Stop printing the static parent-country code in the region hover tooltip and dossier label (v0.18.0) CI / build + unit + e2e (pull_request) Successful in 2m34s Details	2026-10-13 18:58:43 +00:00
kamilkrzywda	acb4f0800f	Merge pull request 'Fill no-one's-land gaps between merged sub-regions (v0.17.0)' (#32 ) from feat/fill-gaps into master CI / build + unit + e2e (push) Successful in 1m39s Details	2026-10-13 17:48:17 +02:00
kamilkrzywda	b1081eefde	Fill no-one's-land gaps between merged sub-regions (v0.17.0) CI / build + unit + e2e (pull_request) Successful in 2m19s Details Part of #16	2026-10-13 15:18:31 +00:00