Merge pull request 'v0.28.0 (#46 ): per-region stats — area×population-weighted-median Nation.stats (PR 1 of 2)' (#47 ) from feat/46-region-stats into master

v0.28.0 (#46 ): per-region stats — area×population-weighted-median Nation.stats (PR 1 of 2)
Merge pull request 'v0.27.0 (#44 ): LLM-placed named map point markers' (#45 ) from feat/44-llm-map-pointers into master
2026-10-15 02:20:55 +02:00 · 2026-10-15 00:17:19 +00:00 · 2026-10-15 00:40:52 +02:00 · 2026-10-14 22:37:29 +00:00
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@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ history/
 ├── eslint.config.js        # flat config (ESLint 9)
 ├── tsconfig.json           # strict; aliases @/ → src/, @shared/ → shared/
 ├── vite.config.ts          # dev server + proxy /api,/sse → :4321; @ / @shared aliases
-├── vitest.config.ts        # unit tests (server/**/*.test.ts + scripts/**/*.test.ts; 168 tests)
+├── vitest.config.ts        # unit tests (server/**/*.test.ts + scripts/**/*.test.ts; 225 tests)
 ├── playwright.config.ts    # deterministic e2e (webServer runs npm run dev, LLM_STUB=1)
 ├── index.html
 ├── presets/                # 5 scenario JSON files + index.json (manifest)
@@ -64,28 +64,36 @@ history/
 │   ├── countries.geo.json  # 177 countries, id=ISO_A3 (input to the region generator)
 │   ├── regions.geo.json    # 1,800 sub-regions, id=<ISO_A3>-<nn>, parent=ISO_A3 (the choropleth)
 │   ├── region-keys.json    # feature id -> region key, 1,800 entries (the ownership/LLM address space, #16 P1)
-│   └── region-adjacency.json # region key -> bordering region keys, 1,800 entries (the getNeighbours data, #16 P2)
+│   ├── region-adjacency.json # region key -> bordering region keys, 1,800 entries (the getNeighbours data, #16 P2)
+│   ├── region-centroids.json # region key -> {lat,lon,spread} anchor for map markers, 1,800 entries (#44)
+│   ├── region-geo.json     # region key -> {area (km²), population}, 1,800 entries (the area×population weighting for per-region stats, #46)
+│   └── ne-admin0-pop.json  # ISO_A3 -> admin-0 POP_EST, 249 codes (the committed population SOURCE for region-geo.json — a small derived table, the 13 MB Natural Earth source is NOT committed, #46)
 ├── scripts/                # the geo/manifest data pipeline — .mjs (turf allowed HERE only;
 │   │                       #   never imported by .ts): generate → coarsen → cleanup → smooth →
 │   │                       #   fill-gaps → split-arkhangel → split-arkhangel-band → build-region-keys
-│   │                       #   → build-region-adjacency
-│   └── *.test.ts           # turf-free vitest tests pinning the dataset + both manifests
+│   │                       #   → build-region-adjacency → build-region-centroids → build-region-geo
+│   │                       #   (build-region-geo reads the COMMITTED ne-admin0-pop.json; that small
+│   │                       #   table is distilled once from the 13 MB Natural Earth admin-0 source by
+│   │                       #   extract-admin0-pop.mjs — the raw source is never committed, #46)
+│   └── *.test.ts           # turf-free vitest tests pinning the dataset + the manifests
 ├── shared/                 # NO runtime deps — the single source of truth
 │   ├── types.ts            #   domain types (Nation, GameState, RoundItem, Preset, …)
 │   └── protocol.ts         #   LLM TurnResult schema (incl. `unowned`, v0.22 #16 P3, and
 │                           #     `nationOps`, v0.23 #16 P4a; v0.24 #16 P4b) + AddAction/AddDiplomacy/RemoveQueueItem/
 │                           #     Jump + NationOp confirm/reject request types + pure helpers
+│                           #     (incl. per-region stats, v0.28 #46: weightedMedian / deriveNationStats /
+│                           #     seedRegionStats / migrateRegionStats)
 ├── server/
 │   ├── index.ts            # Express: /api/* (health|action|diplomacy|queue/remove|jump|advisor|
 │   │                       #   nation-op/confirm|nation-op/reject|games|map|presets), /sse/:id; reads
 │   │                       #   PORT/LLM_*/DATA_DIR
-│   ├── engine.ts           # pure: prompts / parse+validate / applyTurnResult (sole-ownership + no-man's-land releases, v0.22 #16 P3) / runTurn (tool path + plain fallback) / getNeighbours tool + executor / playerFrontier / queue ops / advisor / nation-op ops (resolveNationRef / freshNationId / NEW_NATION_STATS / applyNationOp rename+split+merge / confirmNationOp / rejectNationOp, v0.23 #16 P4a; v0.24 #16 P4b)
+│   ├── engine.ts           # pure: prompts / parse+validate / applyTurnResult (sole-ownership + no-man's-land releases, v0.22 #16 P3; per-region stats maintenance + derived recompute, v0.28 #46) / runTurn (tool path + plain fallback) / getNeighbours tool + executor / playerFrontier / queue ops / advisor / nation-op ops (resolveNationRef / freshNationId / NEW_NATION_STATS / applyNationOp rename+split+merge / confirmNationOp / rejectNationOp, v0.23 #16 P4a; v0.24 #16 P4b)
 │   ├── llm.ts              # LlmClient: chat() + chatWithTools() (bounded function-calling loop), injectable transport, retry+backoff, logging + env config
-│   ├── regions.ts          # turf-free region-key data access: load manifest/geo/adjacency (public/ then dist/), country→keys expansion, reference table, neighboursOf/hasAdjacency
+│   ├── regions.ts          # turf-free region-key data access: load manifest/geo/adjacency/centroids/geo-manifest (public/ then dist/), country→keys expansion, reference table, neighboursOf/hasAdjacency, centroidOf/hasCentroids, geoOf/hasGeo (#46)
 │   ├── stub.ts             # deterministic LLM transport (tests/e2e): one frontier conquest per turn + ADVISOR_MARKER
 │   ├── map.ts              # GameState → RegionMap (region key → owner + stable color)
 │   ├── presets.ts          # load preset JSON files from disk
-│   ├── db.ts               # SQLite open/save/load
+│   ├── db.ts               # SQLite open/save/load (+ legacy regionStats migration on load, v0.28 #46)
 │   └── *.test.ts           # unit tests (vitest)
 └── src/
    ├── App.tsx             # screen router (home → pick → game) + manual hash router (#/game/<id>); owns game/regions/advisors/busy
@@ -115,13 +123,15 @@ history/
 | `npm run dev` | Express on :4321 (tsx watch) + Vite on :5173 (proxies `/api`,`/sse`) concurrently |
 | `npm run build` | `vite build` (client → `dist/`) then `tsup server/index.ts` → `server/dist/index.js` |
 | `npm start` | run the compiled server (`node server/dist/index.js`) on :4321 |
-| `npm test` | vitest unit tests (`server/` + `scripts/`; 168 tests) |
+| `npm test` | vitest unit tests (`server/` + `scripts/`; 225 tests) |
 | `npm run typecheck` | `tsc --noEmit` (strict) across src/server/shared/e2e/configs |
 | `npm run lint` | ESLint flat config |
 | `npm run e2e` | Playwright, fully deterministic (`LLM_STUB=1`); **runs in CI on every PR** (see below) |
 | `npm run split:regions` | (re)apply the #31 Arkhangel'sk split (`RU-ARK` → mainland + `RU-ARK-NE` + `RU-ARK-SZ`) — idempotent no-op once applied |
 | `npm run split:regions:band` | (re)apply the #41 Arctic-coast-band split (`RU-ARK` mainland's 28-part lat ≥ 68 band → `RU-PEO` + `RU-YAM`) — idempotent no-op once applied |
-| `npm run build:region-keys` / `build:region-adjacency` | (re)generate the `public/region-keys.json` / `region-adjacency.json` manifests — deterministic + idempotent (byte-identical re-run) |
+| `npm run build:region-keys` / `build:region-adjacency` / `build:region-centroids` | (re)generate the `public/region-keys.json` / `region-adjacency.json` / `region-centroids.json` manifests — deterministic + idempotent (byte-identical re-run) |
+| `npm run build:region-geo` | (re)generate `public/region-geo.json` (region key → area km² + population) from `regions.geo.json` + `region-keys.json` + the committed `ne-admin0-pop.json` — deterministic + idempotent (byte-identical re-run; #46) |
+| `npm run extract:admin0-pop` | one-time distillation of the 13 MB Natural Earth admin-0 source → the committed `public/ne-admin0-pop.json` (ISO_A3 → `POP_EST`, 249 codes); the raw source is never committed (#46) |
 | `docker compose up -d --build` | prod image on :4321, routed via Traefik at `history.dev.kkhost.pl` |

 **Local verification (before every PR):** `npm run typecheck` + `npm run lint` + `npm test` (unit) + `npm run build`. The full **e2e** suite (`npm run e2e`) is verified by **CI on every PR** (the Playwright config boots its own dev webServer with `LLM_STUB=1`) — locally you only need the four checks above; e2e is the CI source of truth.
@@ -249,6 +259,74 @@ history/
  three op shapes as a proposal queue (at most 1–2 per turn, each narrated in events). The stub
  never proposes a nation op (`nationOps: []`), so this path is covered by unit tests only
  (`server/engine.test.ts`).
+- **Map markers (v0.27, #44) — LLM-placed named points, region-anchored, canvas-icon rendered.**
+  The LLM can place named **point markers** on the map each turn: eight `MarkerType`s
+  (`city, factory, army, port, capital, fleet, rocket, gathering`; a **capital** is at most one
+  per nation, a **gathering** a political/social mass event that can enable a non-military
+  takeover). `TurnResult.markers = { add: MarkerSpec[]; remove: string[] }` (both required,
+  default `[]`; `MarkerSpec = { type, name, regionKey }`). A marker's stable `id` is the FNV-1a
+  32-bit hash of `` `${type}\u0000${name}\u0000${regionKey}` `` rendered as four lowercase
+  base-26 characters (mirroring the region-key scheme) — so a **re-add is idempotent** and a
+  **remove is unambiguous** (by id). `GameState.markers: MapMarker[]` is required (`[]` at game
+  creation; a legacy SQLite row without the field loads as `[]` — additive, never wipes).
+  `applyTurnResult` handles markers **after** territory claims: (1) remove by id (absent id →
+  no-op); (2) **recompute every surviving marker's `ownerNationId` from the final post-claim
+  ownership** — a marker always follows its region (a captured region follows its new owner; a
+  region released to no man's land, or a key with 0 or 2+ owners, becomes `null`); (3) add — each
+  new spec is placed at its region's centroid (from `public/region-centroids.json`, injected via
+  the optional `centroidOf` param on `applyTurnResult`) plus a deterministic per-axis jitter
+  (`spread ≈ 0.1 × the largest part's smallest bbox dimension`, so multiple markers of one region
+  scatter instead of stacking), owned by the region's post-turn owner, stamped with the acting
+  turn. Adds are **dropped, never thrown**, when the region key is unknown or has no centroid,
+  when the id already exists, or beyond the hard cap `MAX_MARKERS = 400`. The system prompt
+  documents the field + types + placement rules; `buildUserPrompt` carries the current markers
+  (as `MarkerInfo[]`) so the model can reference their ids in `remove`; a marker add/remove makes
+  a turn "meaningful". **Rendering is canvas-generated per-type ICON images, NOT text labels**
+  (`src/components/WorldMap.tsx`): every external glyph/font endpoint is a dead 404 (OpenFreeMap's
+  `fonts/{stack}/{range}.pbf` and `demotiles.maplibre.org/font/…`) and the OFM dark basemap only
+  renders because it is **raster** (labels baked into the tiles) — there is no working vector
+  font, so markers are drawn as self-contained, offline, deterministic per-type icons
+  (`drawMarkerIcon`: distinct shape per type, filled with the type color, outlined for legibility),
+  registered as named `ImageData` images that survive `styledata`. The marker **name shows in the
+  hover tooltip** (not a persistent on-map label), and **clicking a marker focuses its owning
+  nation's dossier**. There are **no separate marker event handlers** — MapLibre's per-layer event
+  delegates fire independently (no `stopPropagation`), so the region hover/click handlers instead
+  `queryRenderedFeatures` the marker layer under the cursor and act on the marker when present.
+  The **stub is marker-free** (`markers: { add: [], remove: [] }`) — e2e (CI, `LLM_STUB=1`) is
+  unaffected and the marker path is unit-tested only (`server/engine.test.ts`,
+  `scripts/region-centroids.test.ts`, `server/regions.test.ts`, `server/db.test.ts`).
+- **Per-region stats — `GameState.regionStats`, derived `Nation.stats` (v0.28, #46; PR 1 of 2 — the LLM lever is PR 2).**
+  Since v0.28 the four 0–100 stats live at **region-key** granularity: `GameState.regionStats`
+  (required; `{}` at game creation) maps each owned region key to its own `RegionStats`, and
+  `Nation.stats` is **derived** — the **area×population-weighted median** of the stats of the
+  regions the nation owns (`deriveNationStats`, pure in `shared/protocol.ts`). A region's weight
+  is `(area>0?area:1)×(population>0?population:1)` from the committed `public/region-geo.json`
+  manifest (1,800 entries; area in km² at 2dp, integer population) — which is built by
+  `scripts/build-region-geo.mjs` from `regions.geo.json` + `region-keys.json` + the committed
+  `public/ne-admin0-pop.json` (Natural Earth admin-0 `POP_EST`, 249 codes, one-time distilled by
+  `scripts/extract-admin0-pop.mjs`; each country's `POP_EST` is spread over its sub-regions
+  proportional to area by largest-remainder, so per-country totals are preserved exactly). A
+  released / 0-owner / 2+-owner key has **no** entry. A fresh game is seeded by
+  `seedRegionStats` (every owned region gets a **copy** of its owner's stats — identical values,
+  so the derived median equals the original and fresh-game numbers are unchanged). Legacy SQLite
+  rows are migrated once on load by `migrateRegionStats` (`db.load`, called without `geoOf` —
+  weight-invariant for the identical-value seed): a row that already has `regionStats` (v0.28+)
+  is returned **unchanged** (never recomputed on load → no drift), a legacy row is seeded +
+  recomputed (0-region guard keeps its stats). `applyTurnResult` takes an optional `geoOf`
+  (passed through `runTurn`; the jump route wires it via `hasGeo() ? (key) => geoOf(key) :
+  undefined`) and maintains the table inside the **load-bearing order events → relations →
+  territory → stateChanges → recompute → markers → nationOps**: a release deletes the key's
+  entry; a (re-)claim re-inits an absent entry as a copy of the gainer's current `stats`;
+  nation-level `stateChanges` (the only LLM lever for now — the prompt is **unchanged** in this
+  PR) write to `n.stats` **and** to every region the nation owns; then every nation with ≥1
+  entered region gets `stats` recomputed as its regions' weighted median (a 0-region — or no-
+  entered-region — nation keeps its directly-maintained `stats`, which is why the existing unit
+  and e2e assertions pass unchanged; without the geo manifest the recompute degrades to an
+  unweighted median, never throwing). The stub never touches per-region stats (`LLM_STUB=1`
+  e2e unaffected), and the path is unit-tested (`server/engine.test.ts`,
+  `server/protocol.test.ts`, `server/db.test.ts`, `server/regions.test.ts`,
+  `scripts/region-geo.test.ts`). **PR 1 of 2 — deliberately NOT deployed** (the user deploys
+  when PR 2, the per-region LLM lever, ships).
 - **Map click → dossier target (owner resolved from the RegionMap, by region key).**
  Clicking a sub-region does NOT open a popup — it switches the dossier to that sub-region's
  owning nation (`focusNation(ownerId, {name})` in `App.tsx`, which also records which region was
@@ -369,7 +447,8 @@ history/
  (works on `node:22-slim`/glibc). It's the sole `--external` in the tsup server bundle.
 - The `dist/` client is committed to the build output only; the `public/` data files
  (`regions.geo.json` — the choropleth — `region-keys.json` + `region-adjacency.json` — the
-  ownership/adjacency manifests — and `countries.geo.json`) are copied into `dist/` by Vite at
+  ownership/adjacency manifests — `region-centroids.json` — the marker anchors (#44) — and
+   `countries.geo.json`) are copied into `dist/` by Vite at
  build time, so the prod image serves them from `dist/` (no separate copy). The server's region
  loader (`server/regions.ts`) probes `public/` then `dist/` for the manifest pair, because the
  Docker image keeps only `dist/` (the v0.20 fix — before it, region-level ownership silently
@@ -2,6 +2,42 @@

 All notable changes to **History** are listed here, newest first.

+## v0.28.0 — 2026-10-15 00:12
+- **#46 (PR 1 of 2): per-region stats — a nation's four 0–100 stats become a *derived* aggregate.** Instead of storing `Nation.stats` as four independent per-nation numbers, they are now **derived** as the **area×population-weighted median** of the stats of the regions the nation owns. Each sub-region carries its own `RegionStats` in a new `GameState.regionStats: Record<regionKey, RegionStats>` table; a nation's displayed stats are the weighted median over its owned regions. This is the data foundation for the per-region LLM levers that land in **PR 2** — in this PR the LLM still only emits nation-level `stateChanges`, which are re-interpreted as applying to *all* of a nation's owned regions. A new `public/region-geo.json` manifest (area km² + population per region key) supplies the weighting. **Not deployed in this PR** — the production site updates when PR 2 ships (the change is additive and backward-compatible, so deferring the deploy is safe).
+  - **Data build (`scripts/`, turf-`.mjs` only; never imported by `.ts`).**
+    - `scripts/extract-admin0-pop.mjs` (`npm run extract:admin0-pop`) — **one-time** distillation of the 13 MB Natural Earth 1:10m admin-0 GeoJSON (a *source* file we do **not** commit) into the small committed `public/ne-admin0-pop.json` = `{ ADM0_A3 → max POP_EST }` (249 country codes, total 7,677,059,722). The 1:10m **admin-1** file the region generator uses carries no population, so the source is the **admin-0** `POP_EST` (a deliberate deviation, recorded here).
+    - `scripts/build-region-geo.mjs` (`npm run build:region-geo`) — builds `public/region-geo.json` = `{ regionKey → { area, population } }`: `area` = `@turf/area(finalFeature)/1e6` km² (2 dp); `population` = the parent country's `POP_EST` spread across its sub-regions **proportional to area via largest-remainder**, so every country's sub-regions sum **exactly** to its total (no rounding drift). Reads the committed `ne-admin0-pop.json` → fully reproducible in CI. **Deterministic + idempotent** (sorted keys; byte-identical re-run, pinned by the test). 1,800 entries; **total population 7,654,092,021** (the sum over the 177 repo countries).
+  - **Types (`shared/types.ts`, no runtime deps).** New `RegionStats = { military, economy, stability, population }` (0–100). `GameState.regionStats: Record<string, RegionStats>` is **required** (`{}` at game creation; a released / 0-owner / 2+owner region has **no** entry; a legacy SQLite row without the field is migrated on load, never wiped).
+  - **Pure helpers (`shared/protocol.ts`, no deps).**
+    - `weightedMedian(values, weights)` — sorts by value and returns the value at the first point the cumulative weight reaches half the total; non-finite/non-positive weights are excluded; empty / zero-total → 0. **Translation-invariant** (the median of identical values is that value — the invariant seeding and migration rely on).
+    - `deriveNationStats(regionKeys, regionStats, geoOf?)` — each stat is the weighted median over the nation's owned region keys; a region's weight is `(area>0?area:1)×(population>0?population:1)` (both fall back to 1 when the key has no geo entry, so missing geo degrades to a uniform median); a key with no `regionStats` entry is skipped; returns zero stats when no owned region has an entry (the caller's 0-region guard keeps `n.stats` in that case).
+    - `seedRegionStats(nations)` — seeds the table from nations: every owned key gets a **copy** of its owner's stats (first owner wins on a corrupt double-ownership), so a fresh nation's regions start identical (derived = seeded).
+    - `migrateRegionStats(state, geoOf?)` — **one-time** legacy migration: a row that already has `regionStats` is returned **unchanged** (no recompute on load → no drift); a legacy row (field absent) is seeded per region and each nation's stats recomputed (0-region guard). Never throws.
+  - **Server (`server/regions.ts`, turf-free).** Loads `region-geo.json` (probes `public/` then `dist/`) **optionally** — a missing/broken file degrades weighting to uniform (every region weight 1) while everything else keeps working. New `hasGeo()` and `geoOf(key)` accessors mirror the existing `hasCentroids`/`centroidOf`.
+  - **Server (`server/engine.ts`).** `applyTurnResult` gains an optional `geoOf` param and is reordered to: events → relations → **territory** → **stateChanges** → **recompute** → markers → nationOps.
+    - **Territory:** a **transferred** region **keeps its own** per-region stats (the conquest is what makes a nation's regions diverge); a **released** region's entry is **deleted** (no man's land carries none); a **re-claimed** region with no entry is **re-inited** to the gainer's current stats.
+    - **StateChanges (re-interpreted):** a nation-level `set`/`add` applies to `n.stats` **and** to every region the nation owns (clamped 0–100).
+    - **Recompute:** every nation's `stats` is re-derived via `deriveNationStats` (weighted by area×population when `geoOf` is present). Two guards: a **0-region** nation keeps its directly-maintained stats, and a nation **none of whose regions has an entry** keeps its stats too (avoids clobbering with zeros).
+    - `runTurn` threads the optional `geoOf` through to `applyTurnResult`.
+  - **Server (`server/index.ts`).** Game creation seeds `regionStats` via `seedRegionStats` **after** `expandCountriesToKeys` (so regions hold real keys) — a new game's derived stats equal its nation-level stats on turn 1. The `jump` route passes `geoOf: hasGeo() ? geoOf : undefined`.
+  - **Server (`server/db.ts`).** `load()` migrates a legacy row (regionStats absent) via `migrateRegionStats(state)` **without** `geoOf` (uniform weights — weight-invariant for the equal-value seeding, and avoids a `db`→`regions` import). v0.28+ rows load unchanged.
+  - **Prompt / client / stub unchanged.** `nationForPrompt`/`buildUserPrompt` still surface the (now derived) four stats; there is no per-region LLM lever yet (PR 2). The deterministic stub is unaffected (nation-level `stateChanges` flow through the re-interpretation; the median of identical values is that value, so e2e stat assertions hold).
+  - **Tests (189 → 225).** New `server/protocol.test.ts` (weightedMedian incl. translation-invariance / identical / zero / empty; deriveNationStats weighted vs uniform / skip-missing / zero / single / fallback-weight; seedRegionStats; migrateRegionStats v0.28+ no-op vs legacy / 0-region); `server/engine.test.ts` (transfer keeps region stats + aggregate blends, release deletes entry, re-claim re-inits, 0-region keeps stats, geoOf-weighted vs uniform recompute, nation-level change re-applies to regions, original not mutated); `server/db.test.ts` (legacy row → seeded + preserved stats; v0.28+ row loads unchanged); `server/regions.test.ts` (`hasGeo`/`geoOf` in dev + prod-`dist/` layouts, graceful degradation when absent); new `scripts/region-geo.test.ts` (1,800-entry key-set match, sorted, finite / ≤2dp area / integer population, total 7,654,092,021, per-country totals preserved vs admin-0, spot-checked values, byte-identical re-run).
+  - **Verification.** Typecheck, lint, **225 unit tests**, and the production build all pass (the build copies `region-geo.json` + `ne-admin0-pop.json` into `dist/` like the other manifests, so the prod container layout is covered). e2e is verified by CI on the PR (no local run).
+  - **Deploy:** **none** in this PR — the production site (`https://history.dev.kkhost.pl`) updates when **PR 2** ships. The change is additive + backward-compatible, so existing games migrate on load and no data wipe is needed.
+
+## v0.27.0 — 2026-10-14 22:34
+- **#44: the LLM can place named point markers on the map.** The model may now place up to a handful of named *point markers* per turn (a capital, city, factory complex, army deployment, port, fleet concentration, rocket launch site, or a political **gathering**), each anchored to a region key, persisted per game, and rendered on the choropleth as a MapLibre symbol layer.
+  - **Types (`shared/types.ts` + `shared/protocol.ts`).** Eight `MarkerType`s — `city, factory, army, port, capital, fleet, rocket, gathering` — with a shared `MARKER_TYPE_INFO` map (display label + color + glyph). A `MapMarker = { id, type, name, regionKey, lat, lon, ownerNationId, placedTurn }`; `GameState.markers: MapMarker[]` is **required** (`[]` at game creation, and a legacy SQLite row without the field loads as `[]` — additive, never wipes existing markers). `TurnResult.markers = { add: MarkerSpec[]; remove: string[] }` (both required, default `[]`); `MarkerSpec = { type, name, regionKey }`.
+  - **Stable ids (`shared/protocol.ts`).** A marker's `id` is the FNV-1a 32-bit hash of `` `${type}\u0000${name}\u0000${regionKey}` `` rendered as four lowercase base-26 characters (mirroring the region-key scheme). This makes a **re-add idempotent** (the same type+name+region never creates a second marker) and a **remove unambiguous** (by id).
+  - **Centroid data (`public/region-centroids.json`, new).** ~1,800 entries keyed identically to `region-keys.json`, each `{ lat, lon, spread }`: the anchor is the **centroid of the region's largest-area part** (a single representative point, not an average across disjoint parts), and `spread` ≈ **0.1 × that part's smallest bbox dimension** (in degrees). A new idempotent pipeline stage `scripts/build-region-centroids.mjs` (`npm run build:region-centroids`) regenerates it deterministically (byte-identical re-run, sha256-pinned by the test). The engine uses the centroid as the marker's base position and the `spread` to jitter multiple markers of one region around it (a deterministic per-axis FNV-1a-derived offset, so markers scatter instead of stacking).
+  - **Engine (`server/engine.ts`).** `applyTurnResult` processes markers **after** territory claims, in three steps: (1) remove by id (a listed-but-absent id is a no-op); (2) **recompute every surviving marker's `ownerNationId` from the final post-claim ownership** — a captured region follows its new owner, a region released to no man's land (or a key with 0 or 2+ owners) becomes `null` (a marker always follows its region); (3) add — each new spec is placed at its region's centroid (injected via a new optional `centroidOf` param) plus the per-axis jitter, owned by the region's post-turn owner, stamped with the acting turn. Adds are dropped (never thrown) when their region key is unknown / has no centroid, when the id already exists (idempotent re-add), or beyond the hard cap `MAX_MARKERS = 400` (later adds dropped). The system prompt documents the field, the eight types, and the placement rules; `buildUserPrompt` carries the current markers (as `MarkerInfo[]`) so the model can reference their stable ids in `remove`; `isMeaningful` treats a marker add/remove as a real world change.
+  - **Client (`src/components/WorldMap.tsx`).** A second GeoJSON source + a symbol layer sits above the choropleth. **Deliberate deviation from the original "name as a text label" design:** every external glyph endpoint is a dead 404 (OpenFreeMap's `fonts/{stack}/{range}.pbf` and `demotiles.maplibre.org/font/…`), and the OFM dark basemap only renders at all because it is **raster** (labels baked into the PNG tiles) — there is no working vector font. So markers are drawn as **self-contained, offline, canvas-generated per-type icons** (`drawMarkerIcon`: a distinct shape per type — circle / rounded-square / triangle / diamond / star / center-dotted circles / up-arrow — filled with the type color, outlined for legibility on the dark basemap), registered as named `ImageData` images that survive `styledata`. The marker **name is shown in the hover tooltip** (region name + owner chip + marker name) instead of a persistent on-map label, and **clicking a marker focuses its owning nation's dossier** (a marker's owner is its region's owner). There are no separate marker event handlers: MapLibre's per-layer event delegates fire independently (no `stopPropagation`), so the region hover/click handlers instead `queryRenderedFeatures` the marker layer under the cursor and act on the marker when present.
+  - **Stub (`server/stub.ts`) stays marker-free** — it returns `markers: { add: [], remove: [] }` — so the e2e suite (CI, `LLM_STUB=1`) is unaffected and fully deterministic; the full marker path is covered by unit tests only.
+- **Tests (168 → 189).** New `scripts/region-centroids.test.ts` (1,800 entries, key-set match, finite/world-bounds, each centroid inside its feature's bbox via turf-free coordinate iteration, spot-checked anchors, byte-identical re-run determinism); `server/regions.test.ts` (`hasCentroids`/`centroidOf` in dev + prod-`dist/` layouts, graceful degradation when absent); `server/db.test.ts` (legacy row → `markers: []`); and an `engine.test.ts` marker suite (valid add → id/position/owner/placedTurn, idempotent re-add, region-validity/centroid drops, the 400 cap, remove by id / no-op, owner-follows-region incl. release→null and re-claim, `buildUserPrompt`/system-prompt contract, `validateMarkerOps` raw cleaner, and the `runTurn` centroid wiring).
+- **Verification.** Typecheck, lint, **189 unit tests**, and the production build all pass (the build copies `region-centroids.json` into `dist/` like the other manifests, so it works in the prod container layout).
+- **Deploy:** manual `docker compose up -d --build` on the host — **no `down -v`** (markers are additive; legacy games load with `markers: []`).
+
 ## v0.26.0 — 2026-10-14 19:24
 - **#41: the `RU-ARK` mainland's Arctic-coast band is re-coarsened into two new regions** — a pure re-partition of the existing polygon parts: no new geometry, no coordinate change (the feature union stays byte-identical). After #31 the mainland `RU-ARK` was a 33-part MultiPolygon; its 28-part band (parts whose centroid lat ≥ 68 — the Arctic-coast strip) is now split into:
  - `RU-PEO` — Pechora (13 parts, ~37,678 km²) → new region key `pechora-qwhs`. The southwestern band (around the Pechora delta / Nenets border).
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
  "name": "history",
-  "version": "0.26.0",
+  "version": "0.28.0",
  "private": true,
  "type": "module",
  "description": "AI-driven alternate-history simulator — the LLM is the world engine (Pax Historia style).",
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
    "split:regions:band": "node scripts/split-arkhangel-band.mjs",
    "build:region-keys": "node scripts/build-region-keys.mjs",
    "build:region-adjacency": "node scripts/build-region-adjacency.mjs",
+    "build:region-centroids": "node scripts/build-region-centroids.mjs",
+    "build:region-geo": "node scripts/build-region-geo.mjs",
+    "extract:admin0-pop": "node scripts/extract-admin0-pop.mjs",
    "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",
    "lint": "eslint .",
    "e2e": "playwright test"
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@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+/**
+ * scripts/build-region-centroids.mjs — build the precomputed region-centroid
+ * manifest: `public/region-centroids.json` = `{ "<regionKey>": { "lat": <number>, "lon": <number>, "spread": <number> }, ... }`.
+ *
+ * For every sub-region (region key, see `public/region-keys.json`) this records
+ * the point the LLM's map markers (v0.27, #44) will be anchored to: the
+ * **centroid of the region's largest-area part** (a MultiPolygon's biggest
+ * island/lake-piece rather than an area-weighted average of all parts), plus
+ * a `spread` value ≈ 0.1 × the smallest bbox dimension of that part (in
+ * degrees) — the engine scatters markers of one region within ±(spread/2)
+ * around the centroid using a deterministic per-marker offset, so several
+ * markers of the same region do not stack on one pixel.
+ *
+ * Method — plain turf on the pre-generated geo file (turf is allowed in .mjs
+ * scripts; it is deliberately kept OUT of the TS typecheck program, see the
+ * v0.17 note). For each feature we (1) split a MultiPolygon into its parts
+ * (a plain Polygon is its own single part), (2) pick the part with the
+ * greatest `@turf/area`, (3) take `@turf/centroid` of that part and
+ * `@turf/bbox` of that part, and (4) round everything to 6 decimal places
+ * (≈ 0.1 m at this scale — far below the map's visual precision).
+ *
+ * Output contract (asserted by scripts/region-centroids.test.ts):
+ *   - one entry for **every** region key, keyed identically to
+ *     `public/region-keys.json` (same key set, 1,800 entries);
+ *   - each centroid lies inside its region's (largest part's) bbox;
+ *   - `spread` is a non-negative number of degrees (0 for degenerate parts);
+ *   - values are rounded to at most 6 decimal places.
+ *
+ * Deterministic + idempotent: the input files are fixed, turf is a pure
+ * geometric computation, the output keeps the geo file's (stable) feature
+ * order and rounds to fixed precision — so a re-run rewrites a byte-identical
+ * file (the test re-runs this script and compares bytes).
+ *
+ * Usage: `node scripts/build-region-centroids.mjs`  (or `npm run build:region-centroids`).
+ */
+import { readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import area from '@turf/area';
+import bbox from '@turf/bbox';
+import centroid from '@turf/centroid';
+import { feature } from '@turf/helpers';
+
+const here = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const root = path.resolve(here, '..');
+
+const round6 = (v) => Math.round(v * 1e6) / 1e6;
+
+// --- load the geo + region-key manifest (plain parse; keys join feature->key) --
+const geo = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path.join(root, 'public', 'regions.geo.json'), 'utf8'));
+const idToKey = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path.join(root, 'public', 'region-keys.json'), 'utf8'));
+
+/**
+ * The polygon parts of a geometry: a MultiPolygon's individual polygons, a
+ * plain Polygon as its own single part, anything else as an empty list (the
+ * caller falls back to the whole-feature centroid).
+ */
+function partsOf(geometry) {
+  if (geometry?.type === 'MultiPolygon') return geometry.coordinates ?? [];
+  if (geometry?.type === 'Polygon') return [geometry.coordinates];
+  return [];
+}
+
+const manifest = {};
+let skipped = 0;
+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 parts = partsOf(f.geometry);
+  if (parts.length === 0) {
+    // Degenerate geometry (a point/line region): anchor at the feature's own
+    // centroid. Can't happen with the current 1,800-polygon dataset, but the
+    // fallback keeps the manifest complete if the generator ever changes.
+    skipped += 1;
+    const c = centroid(feature(f.geometry));
+    const b = bbox(feature(f.geometry));
+    manifest[key] = {
+      lat: round6(c.geometry.coordinates[1]),
+      lon: round6(c.geometry.coordinates[0]),
+      spread: round6(Math.min(b[2] - b[0], b[3] - b[1]) * 0.1),
+    };
+    continue;
+  }
+  // Pick the part with the greatest area (km²) and anchor to IT, so a
+  // multi-part region's markers cluster on its main mass, not between parts.
+  let best = 0;
+  let bestArea = -1;
+  for (let i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {
+    const a = area(feature({ type: 'Polygon', coordinates: parts[i] }));
+    if (a > bestArea) {
+      bestArea = a;
+      best = i;
+    }
+  }
+  const part = feature({ type: 'Polygon', coordinates: parts[best] });
+  const c = centroid(part);
+  const b = bbox(part);
+  manifest[key] = {
+    lat: round6(c.geometry.coordinates[1]),
+    lon: round6(c.geometry.coordinates[0]),
+    spread: round6(Math.min(b[2] - b[0], b[3] - b[1]) * 0.1),
+  };
+}
+
+// --- hard assertions (the test re-checks these against the committed file) ---
+const expectedKeys = Object.values(idToKey);
+if (Object.keys(manifest).length !== expectedKeys.length) {
+  throw new Error(
+    `expected ${expectedKeys.length} centroid entries (one per region key), got ${Object.keys(manifest).length}`,
+  );
+}
+for (const k of expectedKeys) {
+  if (!(k in manifest)) throw new Error(`missing centroid for region key ${JSON.stringify(k)}`);
+}
+for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(manifest)) {
+  if (!Number.isFinite(v.lat) || !Number.isFinite(v.lon) || !Number.isFinite(v.spread)) {
+    throw new Error(`non-finite centroid for ${k}: ${JSON.stringify(v)}`);
+  }
+  if (v.spread < 0) throw new Error(`negative spread for ${k}: ${v.spread}`);
+}
+
+// --- write idempotently (stable order = insertion order = geo file order) ---
+writeFileSync(path.join(root, 'public', 'region-centroids.json'), JSON.stringify(manifest, null, 2) + '\n');
+
+// --- summary ------------------------------------------------------------------
+const spreads = Object.values(manifest).map((v) => v.spread);
+console.log(
+  `[build-region-centroids] wrote public/region-centroids.json — ${Object.keys(manifest).length} region keys` +
+    (skipped ? ` (${skipped} non-polygon fallbacks)` : '') +
+    `, spread min/max ${Math.min(...spreads)} / ${Math.max(...spreads)} deg`,
+);
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+/**
+ * scripts/build-region-geo.mjs — build the region **geo** manifest:
+ * `public/region-geo.json` = `{ "<regionKey>": { "area": <number>, "population": <number> }, ... }`.
+ *
+ * For every sub-region (region key, see `public/region-keys.json`) this records
+ * two facts the v0.28 per-region stats model (and its area×population weighting)
+ * needs:
+ *   - `area`       — the region's **total** surface area in km², from
+ *                    `@turf/area` on the FINAL generated feature
+ *                    (`public/regions.geo.json`) — turf reports square metres,
+ *                    so the raw value is divided by 1e6 — rounded to 2 decimals.
+ *   - `population` — the region's share of its **parent country's** real
+ *                    population (Natural Earth 1:10m admin-0 `POP_EST`, from the
+ *                    committed `public/ne-admin0-pop.json`), distributed across
+ *                    the country's sub-regions **proportional to each region's
+ *                    area** (a first-order "uniform population density within a
+ *                    country" approximation — Natural Earth admin-1, which the
+ *                    region generator uses, carries no per-unit population).
+ *
+ * Population distribution uses **largest remainder** per country, so the sum of
+ * a country's sub-region populations is EXACTLY the country's POP_EST, and the
+ * sum over all 1,800 regions is EXACTLY the sum of the 177 repo countries'
+ * POP_EST (7,654,092,021) — no rounding drift.
+ *
+ * Method — plain turf on the pre-generated geo file (turf is allowed in .mjs
+ * scripts; it is deliberately kept OUT of the TS typecheck program, see the
+ * v0.17 note). The population source is the COMMITTED `public/ne-admin0-pop.json`
+ * (a small derived table produced once by `scripts/extract-admin0-pop.mjs` from
+ * the 13 MB Natural Earth admin-0 file, which we do NOT commit) — so this build
+ * is fully reproducible in CI.
+ *
+ * Output contract (asserted by scripts/region-geo.test.ts):
+ *   - one entry for **every** region key, keyed identically to
+ *     `public/region-keys.json` (same key set, 1,800 entries);
+ *   - `area` is a finite number >= 0 (km², <= 2 decimals);
+ *   - `population` is a non-negative integer;
+ *   - the total population across all entries is a non-negative integer.
+ *
+ * Deterministic + idempotent: fixed inputs (the geo file, the key manifest, and
+ * the committed population table), pure turf, largest-remainder with a
+ * (remainder desc, key asc) tie-break, and stable sorted key order → a re-run
+ * rewrites a byte-identical file (the test re-runs this script and compares
+ * bytes).
+ *
+ * Usage: `node scripts/build-region-geo.mjs`  (or `npm run build:region-geo`).
+ */
+import { readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import area from '@turf/area';
+import { feature } from '@turf/helpers';
+
+const here = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const root = path.resolve(here, '..');
+
+const round2 = (v) => Math.round(v * 100) / 100;
+
+// --- load the inputs (plain parse) ------------------------------------------
+const geoPath = path.join(root, 'public', 'regions.geo.json');
+const keysPath = path.join(root, 'public', 'region-keys.json');
+const popPath = path.join(root, 'public', 'ne-admin0-pop.json');
+
+let geo, idToKey, popByCountry;
+try {
+  geo = JSON.parse(readFileSync(geoPath, 'utf8'));
+  idToKey = JSON.parse(readFileSync(keysPath, 'utf8'));
+  popByCountry = JSON.parse(readFileSync(popPath, 'utf8'));
+} catch (err) {
+  console.error(
+    `[build-region-geo] could not load the inputs (${geoPath}, ${keysPath}, ${popPath}). ` +
+      `Is public/ne-admin0-pop.json present? Regenerate it with scripts/extract-admin0-pop.mjs.`,
+  );
+  throw err;
+}
+
+/**
+ * One pass over the geo features: for each region key record its (unrounded)
+ * turf area and its parent ISO_A3, then group the keys by parent so the
+ * population can be distributed per country.
+ */
+const regionArea = new Map(); // key -> unrounded area (km²)
+const regionParent = new Map(); // key -> parent ISO_A3
+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
+  // @turf/area reports square METRES; the manifest stores km².
+  const a = area(feature(f.geometry)) / 1e6;
+  regionArea.set(key, a);
+  regionParent.set(key, typeof f.properties?.parent === 'string' ? f.properties.parent : '');
+}
+
+// Group region keys by parent country (file order is stable, but we sort for
+// deterministic population distribution).
+const keysByCountry = new Map(); // parent -> string[] of keys
+for (const [key, parent] of regionParent) {
+  if (!parent) continue; // a region with no parent has no population source
+  const list = keysByCountry.get(parent);
+  if (list) list.push(key);
+  else keysByCountry.set(parent, [key]);
+}
+
+const population = new Map(); // key -> integer population
+for (const [parent, keys] of keysByCountry) {
+  keys.sort(); // deterministic ordering for the tie-break
+  const P = Number.isFinite(popByCountry[parent]) ? Math.max(0, popByCountry[parent]) : 0;
+  const totalArea = keys.reduce((s, k) => s + (regionArea.get(k) || 0), 0);
+  if (P <= 0 || totalArea <= 0) {
+    for (const k of keys) population.set(k, 0);
+    continue;
+  }
+  // Largest remainder: floor each share, then hand out the leftover 1s to the
+  // regions with the largest fractional remainders (ties broken by key asc).
+  const shares = keys.map((k) => {
+    const a = regionArea.get(k) || 0;
+    const ideal = (P * a) / totalArea;
+    return { k, floor: Math.floor(ideal), rem: ideal - Math.floor(ideal) };
+  });
+  const distributed = shares.reduce((s, x) => s + x.floor, 0);
+  let deficit = P - distributed; // 0 <= deficit < keys.length
+  const order = shares
+    .map((x, i) => ({ i, rem: x.rem, k: x.k }))
+    .sort((a, b) => (b.rem - a.rem) || (a.k < b.k ? -1 : a.k > b.k ? 1 : 0));
+  for (let i = 0; i < order.length && deficit > 0; i++) {
+    shares[order[i].i].floor += 1;
+    deficit -= 1;
+  }
+  for (const x of shares) population.set(x.k, x.floor);
+}
+
+// --- assemble the manifest (sorted keys) -------------------------------------
+const expectedKeys = Object.values(idToKey);
+const manifest = {};
+for (const k of [...expectedKeys].sort()) {
+  const a = regionArea.get(k);
+  const p = population.get(k);
+  if (a === undefined || p === undefined) {
+    throw new Error(`region key ${JSON.stringify(k)} has no computed area/population`);
+  }
+  manifest[k] = { area: round2(a), population: p };
+}
+
+// --- hard assertions (the test re-checks these against the committed file) ----
+if (Object.keys(manifest).length !== expectedKeys.length) {
+  throw new Error(
+    `expected ${expectedKeys.length} region-geo entries (one per region key), got ${Object.keys(manifest).length}`,
+  );
+}
+let totalPop = 0;
+let zeros = 0;
+for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(manifest)) {
+  if (!Number.isFinite(v.area) || v.area < 0) throw new Error(`bad area for ${k}: ${JSON.stringify(v)}`);
+  if (!Number.isInteger(v.population) || v.population < 0) throw new Error(`bad population for ${k}: ${JSON.stringify(v)}`);
+  if (v.area === 0) zeros += 1;
+  totalPop += v.population;
+}
+
+// --- write idempotently (sorted keys, 2-space indent, trailing newline) ------
+writeFileSync(path.join(root, 'public', 'region-geo.json'), JSON.stringify(manifest, null, 2) + '\n');
+
+// --- summary ------------------------------------------------------------------
+console.log(
+  `[build-region-geo] wrote public/region-geo.json — ${Object.keys(manifest).length} region keys` +
+    `${zeros ? ` (${zeros} zero-area regions)` : ''}, total population ${totalPop.toLocaleString('en-US')}`,
+);
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+/**
+ * scripts/extract-admin0-pop.mjs — one-time extraction of the population
+ * SOURCE for the region-geo manifest: `public/ne-admin0-pop.json`.
+ *
+ * Output = `{ "<ADM0_A3>": <POP_EST>, ... }` — the estimated population
+ * (POP_EST) of every Natural Earth 1:10m **admin-0 country** code, keeping
+ * the **maximum** POP_EST seen for each code (Natural Earth ships a few
+ * duplicated / broken-out features per code, e.g. the `TLC` stubs, whose
+ * POP_EST is 0; the real country always wins by having the larger value).
+ * Only codes with a finite, positive POP_EST are recorded (a 0/null POP_EST
+ * has nothing to distribute). Keys are sorted; the file is written with
+ * 2-space indent + trailing newline (deterministic, committed).
+ *
+ * Why a separate committed file: `public/region-geo.json` (built by
+ * `build-region-geo.mjs`) needs a per-country population, but the raw
+ * Natural Earth GeoJSON (13 MB) is a *source* file we deliberately do NOT
+ * commit (see the AGENTS.md data-pipeline note). This script distils it
+ * into a tiny (a few KB) derived table that IS committed, so the region-geo
+ * builder stays fully reproducible in CI without the source present.
+ * Re-run only when the underlying Natural Earth data changes.
+ *
+ * The 1:10m admin-1 file (the one the region generator uses) carries NO
+ * population; the 1:10m admin-0 file does (uppercase `POP_EST` / `ADM0_A3`).
+ *
+ * Usage:
+ *   NE_ADMIN0=/path/to/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson node scripts/extract-admin0-pop.mjs
+ * (default source: /tmp/ne10m_admin0.geojson)
+ */
+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, '..');
+
+const src = process.env.NE_ADMIN0 || '/tmp/ne10m_admin0.geojson';
+let raw;
+try {
+  raw = readFileSync(src, 'utf8');
+} catch (err) {
+  console.error(
+    `[extract-admin0-pop] could not read the Natural Earth admin-0 source at ${src}. ` +
+      `Download it (ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson) and re-run with NE_ADMIN0 pointing at it.`,
+  );
+  throw err;
+}
+
+const geo = JSON.parse(raw);
+
+/** ADM0_A3 -> max finite, positive POP_EST. */
+const byCode = new Map();
+for (const f of geo.features ?? []) {
+  const p = f.properties ?? {};
+  const code = typeof p.ADM0_A3 === 'string' ? p.ADM0_A3 : '';
+  const pop = typeof p.POP_EST === 'number' ? p.POP_EST : NaN;
+  if (!code || !Number.isFinite(pop) || pop <= 0) continue;
+  const prev = byCode.get(code);
+  if (prev === undefined || pop > prev) byCode.set(code, Math.round(pop));
+}
+
+if (byCode.size === 0) {
+  throw new Error('[extract-admin0-pop] no finite positive POP_EST found in the source — wrong file?');
+}
+
+// Deterministic: sorted keys, 2-space indent, trailing newline.
+const keys = [...byCode.keys()].sort();
+const manifest = {};
+for (const k of keys) manifest[k] = byCode.get(k);
+
+const out = path.join(root, 'public', 'ne-admin0-pop.json');
+writeFileSync(out, JSON.stringify(manifest, null, 2) + '\n');
+
+let sum = 0;
+for (const v of byCode.values()) sum += v;
+console.log(
+  `[extract-admin0-pop] wrote public/ne-admin0-pop.json — ${byCode.size} country codes, ` +
+    `total population ${sum.toLocaleString('en-US')} (Natural Earth 1:10m admin-0, max POP_EST per code)`,
+);
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+/**
+ * scripts/region-centroids.test.ts — validation for the committed
+ * `public/region-centroids.json` (built by `scripts/build-region-centroids.mjs`).
+ *
+ * The manifest maps each region key to the anchor point a map marker (v0.27,
+ * #44) is placed at: the centroid of the region's largest-area part, plus a
+ * `spread` (≈ 0.1 × that part's smallest bbox dimension, in degrees) that the
+ * engine uses to scatter multiple markers of one region around the centroid.
+ * It is a load-bearing data artifact for the marker placement path — this test
+ * pins its contract.
+ *
+ * Deliberately dependency-free: it reads the JSON with plain `fs`/`JSON.parse`
+ * and computes bbox checks by iterating coordinates directly (no `@turf`/
+ * geojson types, which would pull `@types/geojson` into the tsc program and
+ * break `WorldMap.tsx` — see the v0.17 note). Mirrors the style of
+ * `scripts/region-adjacency.test.ts`; the determinism test re-runs the (turf
+ * `.mjs`) builder and compares bytes, matching that the builder is idempotent.
+ */
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
+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'));
+}
+
+interface CentroidEntry {
+  lat: number;
+  lon: number;
+  spread: number;
+}
+
+/** All [lon, lat] coordinate pairs of a Polygon / MultiPolygon geometry. */
+function allCoords(geometry: { type?: string; coordinates?: unknown }): Array<[number, number]> {
+  const c = geometry?.coordinates as
+    | Array<Array<[number, number]>>
+    | Array<Array<Array<[number, number]>>>
+    | undefined;
+  if (!c) return [];
+  if (geometry?.type === 'Polygon') {
+    const rings = c as Array<Array<[number, number]>>;
+    const out: Array<[number, number]> = [];
+    for (const ring of rings) for (const p of ring) out.push(p);
+    return out;
+  }
+  if (geometry?.type === 'MultiPolygon') {
+    const polys = c as Array<Array<Array<[number, number]>>>;
+    const out: Array<[number, number]> = [];
+    for (const poly of polys) for (const ring of poly) for (const p of ring) out.push(p);
+    return out;
+  }
+  return [];
+}
+
+/** The bounding box [minLon, minLat, maxLon, maxLat] of a geometry. */
+function bboxOf(geometry: { type?: string; coordinates?: unknown }): [number, number, number, number] {
+  let minLon = Infinity;
+  let minLat = Infinity;
+  let maxLon = -Infinity;
+  let maxLat = -Infinity;
+  for (const [x, y] of allCoords(geometry)) {
+    if (x < minLon) minLon = x;
+    if (y < minLat) minLat = y;
+    if (x > maxLon) maxLon = x;
+    if (y > maxLat) maxLat = y;
+  }
+  return [minLon, minLat, maxLon, maxLat];
+}
+
+describe('region-centroids.json', () => {
+  const centroids = readJson('public/region-centroids.json') as Record<string, CentroidEntry>;
+  const manifest = readJson('public/region-keys.json') as Record<string, string>;
+  const geo = readJson('public/regions.geo.json') as {
+    features?: Array<{ id?: string | number; geometry?: { type?: string; coordinates?: unknown } }>;
+  };
+  const keys = Object.values(manifest);
+
+  // featureId -> feature, then regionKey -> feature (via the key manifest).
+  const featureByKey = new Map<string, { geometry?: { type?: string; coordinates?: unknown } }>();
+  for (const f of geo.features ?? []) {
+    const key = manifest[String(f.id)];
+    if (key) featureByKey.set(key, f);
+  }
+
+  it('has exactly one entry per region key (same key set as region-keys.json)', () => {
+    expect(new Set(Object.keys(centroids))).toEqual(new Set(keys));
+    expect(Object.keys(centroids)).toHaveLength(1800);
+  });
+
+  it('every entry is a finite { lat, lon, spread } with a non-negative spread, in world bounds', () => {
+    for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(centroids)) {
+      expect(Number.isFinite(v.lat), `non-finite lat for ${k}`).toBe(true);
+      expect(Number.isFinite(v.lon), `non-finite lon for ${k}`).toBe(true);
+      expect(Number.isFinite(v.spread), `non-finite spread for ${k}`).toBe(true);
+      expect(v.spread >= 0, `negative spread for ${k}`).toBe(true);
+      expect(v.lat >= -90 && v.lat <= 90, `lat out of range for ${k}: ${v.lat}`).toBe(true);
+      expect(v.lon >= -180 && v.lon <= 180, `lon out of range for ${k}: ${v.lon}`).toBe(true);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('each centroid lies inside its region feature bounding box', () => {
+    // The recorded point is the centroid of the LARGEST part, which is a subset
+    // of the whole feature, so it must fall inside the feature's overall bbox.
+    let checked = 0;
+    for (const [key, c] of Object.entries(centroids)) {
+      const feat = featureByKey.get(key);
+      if (!feat?.geometry) continue;
+      const [minLon, minLat, maxLon, maxLat] = bboxOf(feat.geometry);
+      const eps = 1e-4; // allow for the 6-dp rounding in the builder
+      expect(
+        c.lat >= minLat - eps && c.lat <= maxLat + eps,
+        `lat ${c.lat} outside bbox [${minLat}, ${maxLat}] for ${key}`,
+      ).toBe(true);
+      expect(
+        c.lon >= minLon - eps && c.lon <= maxLon + eps,
+        `lon ${c.lon} outside bbox [${minLon}, ${maxLon}] for ${key}`,
+      ).toBe(true);
+      checked++;
+    }
+    expect(checked).toBe(1800);
+  });
+
+  it('spot-checks a couple of well-known anchors land in the right place', () => {
+    // Region keys are sub-national (states/provinces), so we spot-check a few
+    // whose geography is unambiguous. A gross error in the centroid method
+    // (e.g. averaging across all parts of a large multi-part region, or a
+    // lon/lat swap) would land one of these far off.
+    const near = (k: string, lat: number, lon: number, tol: number) => {
+      const c = centroids[k];
+      expect(c, `missing centroid for ${k}`).toBeDefined();
+      expect(Math.abs(c!.lat - lat)).toBeLessThan(tol);
+      expect(Math.abs(c!.lon - lon)).toBeLessThan(tol);
+    };
+    near('ain-lqtt', 46.16, 4.8, 0.5); // FR-01 — eastern France
+    near('california-kikh', 36.87, -120.67, 0.7); // US-CA — central California
+    near('alberta-zopq', 52.09, -116.94, 1.5); // CA-AB — Alberta (large province)
+    near('acre-ekzw', -9.49, -71.11, 0.5); // BR-AC — western Brazil
+  });
+
+  it('is deterministic: re-running the builder rewrites a byte-identical file', () => {
+    const file = path.join(root, 'public', 'region-centroids.json');
+    const before = readFileSync(file, 'utf8');
+    // The builder is cwd-independent (it resolves the repo root from its own
+    // location) and idempotent: same input files + pure turf + fixed rounding
+    // + stable insertion order → identical bytes.
+    execFileSync(process.execPath, [path.join(root, 'scripts', 'build-region-centroids.mjs')], {
+      cwd: root,
+      stdio: 'pipe',
+    });
+    const after = readFileSync(file, 'utf8');
+    expect(after).toBe(before);
+  });
+});
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+/**
+ * scripts/region-geo.test.ts — validation for the committed
+ * `public/region-geo.json` (built by `scripts/build-region-geo.mjs`).
+ *
+ * The manifest maps each region key to its { area (km²), population } — the
+ * weighting source for the per-region stats model (v0.28, #46): a nation's
+ * four 0–100 stats are derived as the area×population-weighted median of the
+ * stats of the regions it owns. It is a load-bearing data artifact — this
+ * test pins its contract.
+ *
+ * The `area` is the turf area of the region's final geometry (km², 2 dp); the
+ * `population` is the country's Natural-Earth admin-0 `POP_EST` (from the
+ * committed `public/ne-admin0-pop.json`) distributed across its sub-regions
+ * proportional to area via largest-remainder, so every country's sub-regions
+ * sum EXACTLY to the country's total (and the global total is the sum over the
+ * 177 repo countries). This is a dependency-free test: it reads the JSON with
+ * plain `fs`/`JSON.parse` (no `@turf`/geojson types, which would pull
+ * `@types/geojson` into the tsc program and break `WorldMap.tsx` — see the
+ * v0.17 note). The determinism test re-runs the (turf `.mjs`) builder and
+ * compares bytes, matching that the builder is idempotent.
+ */
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
+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'));
+}
+
+interface GeoEntry {
+  area: number;
+  population: number;
+}
+
+// The 177 repo countries' admin-0 population totals (the committed derived
+// source). Only the countries actually present in the region dataset appear.
+const admin0 = readJson('public/ne-admin0-pop.json') as Record<string, number>;
+// feature id -> region key
+const manifest = readJson('public/region-keys.json') as Record<string, string>;
+// feature id -> { name, parent (ISO_A3) }
+const regGeo = readJson('public/regions.geo.json') as {
+  features?: Array<{ id?: string | number; properties?: { name?: string; parent?: string } }>;
+};
+
+// region key -> parent ISO_A3 (via the key manifest + the geo feature parent).
+const keyToParent: Record<string, string> = {};
+for (const f of regGeo.features ?? []) {
+  const key = manifest[String(f.id)];
+  const parent = f.properties?.parent;
+  if (key && parent) keyToParent[key] = parent;
+}
+
+const geo = readJson('public/region-geo.json') as Record<string, GeoEntry>;
+const keys = Object.values(manifest);
+
+describe('region-geo.json', () => {
+  it('has exactly one entry per region key (same key set as region-keys.json)', () => {
+    expect(new Set(Object.keys(geo))).toEqual(new Set(keys));
+    expect(Object.keys(geo)).toHaveLength(1800);
+  });
+
+  it('is keyed in sorted (deterministic) order', () => {
+    const ks = Object.keys(geo);
+    expect(ks).toEqual([...ks].sort());
+  });
+
+  it('every entry is a finite { area ≥ 0 with ≤ 2 dp, integer population ≥ 0 }', () => {
+    for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(geo)) {
+      expect(Number.isFinite(v.area), `non-finite area for ${k}`).toBe(true);
+      expect(Number.isFinite(v.population), `non-finite population for ${k}`).toBe(true);
+      expect(v.area >= 0, `negative area for ${k}: ${v.area}`).toBe(true);
+      // area is recorded to at most 2 decimal places (km²)
+      expect(Math.round(v.area * 100) / 100 === v.area, `area over 2dp for ${k}: ${v.area}`).toBe(true);
+      expect(Number.isInteger(v.population), `non-integer population for ${k}: ${v.population}`).toBe(true);
+      expect(v.population >= 0, `negative population for ${k}: ${v.population}`).toBe(true);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('the global population total equals the sum of the 177 repo countries\' admin-0 totals', () => {
+    // The distribution preserved each country's total exactly, so the grand
+    // total over all sub-regions is the sum over the repo countries only.
+    const total = Object.values(geo).reduce((s, v) => s + v.population, 0);
+    expect(total).toBe(7654092021);
+  });
+
+  it('preserves each country\'s population total across its sub-regions (largest-remainder)', () => {
+    // For every parent country present in the region dataset, the sum of its
+    // sub-regions' populations must equal that country's admin-0 POP_EST
+    // EXACTLY — this is the invariant the largest-remainder distribution
+    // guarantees (no population is created or lost by the split).
+    const byParent: Record<string, number> = {};
+    for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(geo)) {
+      const p = keyToParent[k];
+      if (!p) throw new Error(`no parent for region key ${k}`);
+      byParent[p] = (byParent[p] ?? 0) + v.population;
+    }
+    expect(Object.keys(byParent).length).toBe(177); // the 177 repo countries
+    for (const [p, sum] of Object.entries(byParent)) {
+      expect(admin0[p], `missing admin-0 population for ${p}`).toBeDefined();
+      expect(sum, `population drift for ${p}: sub-regions ${sum} vs admin-0 ${admin0[p]}`).toBe(admin0[p]);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('spot-checks well-known regions for exact area + population', () => {
+    const is = (k: string, area: number, population: number) => {
+      const v = geo[k];
+      expect(v, `missing geo for ${k}`).toBeDefined();
+      expect(v!.area, `area for ${k}`).toBe(area);
+      expect(v!.population, `population for ${k}`).toBe(population);
+    };
+    is('california-kikh', 413329.21, 14184195); // US-CA
+    is('arkhangel-sk-lhbk', 305257.7, 2579108); // RU-ARK mainland core
+    is('pechora-qwhs', 37399.76, 315989); // RU-PEO (Arctic-coast band, #41)
+    is('yamal-gosw', 50598.25, 427502); // RU-YAM (Arctic-coast band, #41)
+    is('new-earth-eikt', 15721.27, 132828); // RU-ARK-NE (island group, #31)
+    is('severnaya-zemlya-awqp', 1209.93, 10223); // RU-ARK-SZ (island group, #31)
+    is('ain-lqtt', 22557.77, 2304126); // FR-01 (Ain)
+  });
+
+  it('is deterministic: re-running the builder rewrites a byte-identical file', () => {
+    const file = path.join(root, 'public', 'region-geo.json');
+    const before = readFileSync(file, 'utf8');
+    // The builder is cwd-independent (it resolves the repo root from its own
+    // location) and idempotent: same input files (regions.geo.json +
+    // region-keys.json + ne-admin0-pop.json) + pure turf + fixed 2-dp rounding
+    // + stable (sorted) key order → identical bytes.
+    execFileSync(process.execPath, [path.join(root, 'scripts', 'build-region-geo.mjs')], {
+      cwd: root,
+      stdio: 'pipe',
+    });
+    const after = readFileSync(file, 'utf8');
+    expect(after).toBe(before);
+  });
+});
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ function makeState(id: string): GameState {
    version: 1,
    unowned: [],
    pendingNationOps: [],
+    markers: [],
+    // (v0.28, #46) a v0.28+ save carries per-region stats; the fake 'GBR'
+    // region here holds a copy of the uk's (single-region) stats.
+    regionStats: {
+      GBR: { military: 80, economy: 70, stability: 60, population: 50 },
+    },
  };
 }

@@ -97,6 +103,50 @@ describe('openDb', () => {
    db.close();
  });

+  it('(v0.27 #44) a legacy row saved before the markers field existed loads with it defaulted to []', () => {
+    const db = openDb(':memory:');
+    const legacy = makeState('legacy');
+    delete (legacy as { markers?: unknown[] }).markers; // a pre-v0.27 save (field absent)
+    db.save(legacy);
+    const loaded = db.load('legacy');
+    expect(loaded).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(loaded!.markers).toEqual([]);
+    db.close();
+  });
+
+  it('(v0.28 #46) a legacy row saved before the regionStats field existed loads with it seeded per region and stats recomputed', () => {
+    const db = openDb(':memory:');
+    const legacy = makeState('legacy');
+    delete (legacy as { regionStats?: Record<string, unknown> }).regionStats; // a pre-v0.28 save (field absent)
+    db.save(legacy);
+    const loaded = db.load('legacy');
+    expect(loaded).not.toBeNull();
+    // each owned region is seeded with a copy of its owner's stats…
+    expect(loaded!.regionStats).toEqual({
+      GBR: { military: 80, economy: 70, stability: 60, population: 50 },
+    });
+    // …and a single-region nation's derived stats equal the seeded ones
+    // (the weighted median of identical values is that value).
+    expect(loaded!.nations.uk.stats).toEqual({ military: 80, economy: 70, stability: 60, population: 50 });
+    db.close();
+  });
+
+  it('(v0.28 #46) a v0.28+ row (regionStats present) loads UNCHANGED — no recompute on load', () => {
+    const db = openDb(':memory:');
+    const s = makeState('current');
+    // Diverge one region's stats from the nation level to prove load does not
+    // recompute (a v0.28+ save keeps its stored derived stats exactly).
+    s.regionStats = { GBR: { military: 99, economy: 70, stability: 60, population: 50 } };
+    s.nations = { uk: { ...s.nations.uk, stats: { military: 42, economy: 70, stability: 60, population: 50 } } };
+    db.save(s);
+    const loaded = db.load('current');
+    expect(loaded).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(loaded!.regionStats).toEqual({ GBR: { military: 99, economy: 70, stability: 60, population: 50 } });
+    // the nation's stats are NOT recomputed from the region on load (they stay 42)
+    expect(loaded!.nations.uk.stats.military).toBe(42);
+    db.close();
+  });
+
  it('delete removes a game by id and reports absence otherwise', () => {
    const db = openDb(':memory:');
    db.save(makeState('a'));
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import { mkdirSync } from 'node:fs';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import Database from 'better-sqlite3';
+import { migrateRegionStats } from '../shared/protocol';
 import type { GameState } from '../shared/types';

 export interface Db {
@@ -39,13 +40,22 @@ export function openDb(filePath: string): Db {
      const row = byId.get(id) as { data: string } | undefined;
      if (!row) return null;
      try {
-        const state = JSON.parse(row.data) as GameState;
+        let state = JSON.parse(row.data) as GameState;
        // (v0.22, #16 P3) Rows saved before `GameState.unowned` existed load
        // with it defaulted: a legacy game has no no-man's-land regions.
        if (state.unowned === undefined) state.unowned = [];
        // (v0.23, #16 P4a) Same for pending nation-op proposals: a legacy game
        // has none awaiting confirm/reject.
        if (state.pendingNationOps === undefined) state.pendingNationOps = [];
+        // (v0.27, #44) Same for map markers: a legacy game has none placed.
+        if (state.markers === undefined) state.markers = [];
+        // (v0.28, #46) Rows saved before per-region stats existed are migrated
+        // ONCE at load time (and never re-migrated afterwards — the field is
+        // then present): each owned region is seeded with a copy of its owner's
+        // nation-level stats and the nations' stats are recomputed as the
+        // (uniform-weight) area×population-weighted median, so no data is lost
+        // and a single-region nation keeps exactly its old stats.
+        state = migrateRegionStats(state);
        return state;
      } catch {
        return null;
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
-import type { GameState, Preset, RoundItem } from '../shared/types';
-import { makeEvent, type NationOp, type TurnResult } from '../shared/protocol';
+import type { GameState, MarkerType, Nation, NationStats, Preset, RegionStats, RoundItem } from '../shared/types';
+import { makeEvent, markerId, MAX_MARKERS, seedRegionStats, type MarkerSpec, type NationOp, type TurnResult } from '../shared/protocol';
 import type { LlmClient, ToolDefinition, WireMessage } from './llm';
 import { makeStubLlmClient } from './stub';
 import {
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import {
  removeRoundItem,
  resolveNationRef,
  runTurn,
+  validateMarkerOps,
  validateNationOps,
  validateTurnResult,
 } from './engine';
@@ -70,6 +71,11 @@ const preset: Preset = {
 };

 function baseState(): GameState {
+  const nations: GameState['nations'] = {
+    uk: { ...preset.nations[0], stats: { ...preset.nations[0].stats }, territory: [...preset.nations[0].territory], relations: { ...preset.nations[0].relations } },
+    us: { ...preset.nations[1], stats: { ...preset.nations[1].stats }, territory: [...preset.nations[1].territory], relations: { ...preset.nations[1].relations } },
+    de: { ...preset.nations[2], stats: { ...preset.nations[2].stats }, territory: [...preset.nations[2].territory], relations: { ...preset.nations[2].relations } },
+  };
  return {
    id: 'g1',
    presetId: 'test',
@@ -77,16 +83,16 @@ function baseState(): GameState {
    playerNationId: 'uk',
    turn: 1,
    date: '1939-09-01',
-    nations: {
-      uk: { ...preset.nations[0], stats: { ...preset.nations[0].stats }, territory: [...preset.nations[0].territory], relations: { ...preset.nations[0].relations } },
-      us: { ...preset.nations[1], stats: { ...preset.nations[1].stats }, territory: [...preset.nations[1].territory], relations: { ...preset.nations[1].relations } },
-      de: { ...preset.nations[2], stats: { ...preset.nations[2].stats }, territory: [...preset.nations[2].territory], relations: { ...preset.nations[2].relations } },
-    },
+    nations,
    events: [],
    pending: [],
    version: 1,
    unowned: [],
    pendingNationOps: [],
+    markers: [],
+    // (v0.28, #46) every owned region starts as a copy of its owner's stats,
+    // so a fresh state's derived stats equal its nation-level stats.
+    regionStats: seedRegionStats(nations),
  };
 }

@@ -524,7 +530,7 @@ describe('validateNationOps (v0.23 #16 P4a)', () => {
      relations: [],
      territoryChanges: [],
      unowned: [],
-      nationOps: [{ kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'France', to: 'French Republic' }],
+      nationOps: [{ kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'France', to: 'French Republic' }], markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
    });
    expect(withOps).not.toBeNull();
    expect(withOps!.nationOps).toEqual([{ kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'France', to: 'French Republic' }]);
@@ -545,7 +551,7 @@ describe('applyTurnResult (nation-op proposals, v0.23 #16 P4a)', () => {
      relations: [],
      territoryChanges: [],
      unowned: [],
-      nationOps: [{ kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'de', to: 'Reich' }],
+      nationOps: [{ kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'de', to: 'Reich' }], markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
    });
    expect(next.nations.de.name).toBe('DE'); // still the old name
    expect(next.pendingNationOps).toEqual([{ kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'de', to: 'Reich' }]);
@@ -565,7 +571,7 @@ describe('applyTurnResult (nation-op proposals, v0.23 #16 P4a)', () => {
      relations: [],
      territoryChanges: [],
      unowned: [],
-      nationOps: [{ kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'us', to: 'USA' }], // new proposal this turn
+      nationOps: [{ kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'us', to: 'USA' }], markers: { add: [], remove: [] }, // new proposal this turn
    });
    expect(next.pendingNationOps).toEqual([
      { kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'de', to: 'Reich' }, // the old one survived
@@ -583,7 +589,7 @@ describe('applyTurnResult (nation-op proposals, v0.23 #16 P4a)', () => {
      relations: [],
      territoryChanges: [],
      unowned: [],
-      nationOps: [{ kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'de', to: 'Reich' }],
+      nationOps: [{ kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'de', to: 'Reich' }], markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
    });
    expect(next.pendingNationOps).toEqual([{ kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'de', to: 'Reich' }]);
  });
@@ -1039,7 +1045,7 @@ describe('applyTurnResult', () => {
      relations: [],
      territoryChanges: [],
      unowned: [],
-      nationOps: [],
+      nationOps: [], markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
    };
    applyTurnResult(state, result);
    expect(JSON.stringify(state)).toBe(snapshot);
@@ -1055,7 +1061,7 @@ describe('applyTurnResult', () => {
      relations: [],
      territoryChanges: [],
      unowned: [],
-      nationOps: [],
+      nationOps: [], markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
    };
    const next = applyTurnResult(state, result);
    expect(next.pending).toEqual([]);
@@ -1077,7 +1083,7 @@ describe('applyTurnResult', () => {
      // 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: [] }],
      unowned: [],
-      nationOps: [],
+      nationOps: [], markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
    };
    const next = applyTurnResult(state, result, new Set(['wales-bbbb']));
    // the valid key was gained (taken from its sole previous owner); the bogus one was ignored
@@ -1102,7 +1108,7 @@ describe('applyTurnResult', () => {
      // released (not in state.unowned), so it does not enter GameState.unowned.
      territoryChanges: [{ nation: 'de', gain: ['POL', 'wales-bbbb'], lose: [] }],
      unowned: [],
-      nationOps: [],
+      nationOps: [], markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
    };
    const next = applyTurnResult(state, result); // no validKeys -> nothing filtered
    expect(next.nations.de.territory).toContain('wales-bbbb');
@@ -1119,7 +1125,7 @@ describe('applyTurnResult (sole-ownership invariants, v0.21 #16 P2)', () => {
    stateChanges: [],
    relations: [],
    unowned: [],
-    nationOps: [],
+    nationOps: [], markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
  };

  it('a double claim (two different gainers, one key) is rejected: the key stays with its original owner', () => {
@@ -1208,7 +1214,7 @@ describe('applyTurnResult (no man\'s land, v0.22 #16 P3)', () => {
    relations: [],
    territoryChanges: [],
    unowned: [],
-    nationOps: [],
+    nationOps: [], markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
  };

  it('a release removes the key from its sole owner and marks it in GameState.unowned', () => {
@@ -1323,7 +1329,7 @@ describe('applyTurnResult (no man\'s land, v0.22 #16 P3)', () => {

  it('a lone release is meaningful (it survives the retry/nudge path)', () => {
    expect(
-      isMeaningful({ date: 'x', events: [], stateChanges: [], relations: [], territoryChanges: [], unowned: ['GBR'], nationOps: [] }),
+      isMeaningful({ date: 'x', events: [], stateChanges: [], relations: [], territoryChanges: [], unowned: ['GBR'], nationOps: [], markers: { add: [], remove: [] } }),
    ).toBe(true);
  });

@@ -1630,9 +1636,9 @@ describe('buildSystemPrompt (tool mode, v0.21 #16 P2)', () => {

 describe('isMeaningful', () => {
  it('is true with an event, false when everything is empty', () => {
-    expect(isMeaningful({ date: 'x', events: [{ nation: 'uk', type: 'military', title: 't', text: 'b', outcome: 'neutral' }], stateChanges: [], relations: [], territoryChanges: [], unowned: [], nationOps: [] })).toBe(true);
-    expect(isMeaningful({ date: 'x', events: [], stateChanges: [{ nation: 'uk', stat: 'military', op: 'set', value: 5 }], relations: [], territoryChanges: [], unowned: [], nationOps: [] })).toBe(true);
-    expect(isMeaningful({ date: 'x', events: [], stateChanges: [], relations: [], territoryChanges: [], unowned: [], nationOps: [] })).toBe(false);
+    expect(isMeaningful({ date: 'x', events: [{ nation: 'uk', type: 'military', title: 't', text: 'b', outcome: 'neutral' }], stateChanges: [], relations: [], territoryChanges: [], unowned: [], nationOps: [], markers: { add: [], remove: [] } })).toBe(true);
+    expect(isMeaningful({ date: 'x', events: [], stateChanges: [{ nation: 'uk', stat: 'military', op: 'set', value: 5 }], relations: [], territoryChanges: [], unowned: [], nationOps: [], markers: { add: [], remove: [] } })).toBe(true);
+    expect(isMeaningful({ date: 'x', events: [], stateChanges: [], relations: [], territoryChanges: [], unowned: [], nationOps: [], markers: { add: [], remove: [] } })).toBe(false);
  });

  it('(v0.23 #16 P4a) a turn that only proposes a nation-op is meaningful (it survives the retry/nudge path)', () => {
@@ -1644,8 +1650,473 @@ describe('isMeaningful', () => {
        relations: [],
        territoryChanges: [],
        unowned: [],
-        nationOps: [{ kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'de', to: 'Reich' }],
+        nationOps: [{ kind: 'rename', nationRef: 'de', to: 'Reich' }], markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
+      }),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('(v0.27 #44) a turn that only adds a marker is meaningful (it survives the retry/nudge path)', () => {
+    expect(
+      isMeaningful({
+        date: 'x',
+        events: [],
+        stateChanges: [],
+        relations: [],
+        territoryChanges: [],
+        unowned: [],
+        nationOps: [],
+        markers: { add: [{ type: 'city', name: 'Lyon', regionKey: 'rhone-rhne' }], remove: [] },
      }),
    ).toBe(true);
  });
 });
+
+describe('markers (point placement, v0.27 #44)', () => {
+  // a deterministic centroid for one region key, undefined for everything else
+  const centroidOf = (key: string) =>
+    key === 'moselle-rygy' ? { lat: 48, lon: 6, spread: 1 } : undefined;
+
+  // build a MarkerSpec from a (possibly invalid, for the guard tests) type string
+  const mk = (type: string, name: string, regionKey: string): MarkerSpec =>
+    ({ type: type as MarkerType, name, regionKey });
+
+  it('adds a valid marker with a stable id, a jittered position within the spread, the region owner, and the placed turn', () => {
+    const state = baseState();
+    state.turn = 4; // placedTurn should equal the resolved turn
+    state.nations.uk.territory = ['GBR', 'moselle-rygy']; // the region is owned by uk
+    const result: TurnResult = {
+      date: '1939-09-03',
+      events: [],
+      stateChanges: [],
+      relations: [],
+      territoryChanges: [],
+      unowned: [],
+      nationOps: [],
+      markers: { add: [mk('city', 'Strasbourg', 'moselle-rygy')], remove: [] },
+    };
+    const next = applyTurnResult(state, result, undefined, centroidOf);
+    expect(next.markers).toHaveLength(1);
+    const m = next.markers[0];
+    expect(m.id).toBe(markerId('city', 'Strasbourg', 'moselle-rygy'));
+    expect(m.type).toBe('city');
+    expect(m.name).toBe('Strasbourg');
+    expect(m.regionKey).toBe('moselle-rygy');
+    expect(m.ownerNationId).toBe('uk'); // the region's sole owner
+    expect(m.placedTurn).toBe(4);
+    // the position is the centroid jittered within ±spread/2
+    expect(m.lat).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(47.5);
+    expect(m.lat).toBeLessThanOrEqual(48.5);
+    expect(m.lon).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(5.5);
+    expect(m.lon).toBeLessThanOrEqual(6.5);
+  });
+
+  it('is idempotent: re-adding the same (type, name, regionKey) does not duplicate the marker', () => {
+    const state = baseState();
+    state.nations.uk.territory = ['moselle-rygy'];
+    const add = [mk('city', 'Strasbourg', 'moselle-rygy')];
+    const first = applyTurnResult(state, {
+      date: '1939-09-03', events: [], stateChanges: [], relations: [], territoryChanges: [],
+      unowned: [], nationOps: [], markers: { add, remove: [] },
+    }, undefined, centroidOf);
+    expect(first.markers).toHaveLength(1);
+    // a second turn proposes the exact same marker again
+    const second = applyTurnResult(first, {
+      date: '1939-09-05', events: [], stateChanges: [], relations: [], territoryChanges: [],
+      unowned: [], nationOps: [], markers: { add, remove: [] },
+    }, undefined, centroidOf);
+    expect(second.markers).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(second.markers[0].id).toBe(first.markers[0].id); // stable id, no second copy
+  });
+
+  it('applyTurnResult drops a new add whose region is unknown or has no centroid, but keeps a valid one', () => {
+    const state = baseState();
+    state.nations.uk.territory = ['moselle-rygy'];
+    // validKeys knows two keys; the centroid resolves only the first.
+    const validKeys = new Set(['moselle-rygy', 'other-key']);
+    const centroidOf2 = (k: string) =>
+      k === 'moselle-rygy' ? { lat: 48, lon: 6, spread: 1 } : undefined;
+    const result: TurnResult = {
+      date: '1939-09-03',
+      events: [],
+      stateChanges: [],
+      relations: [],
+      territoryChanges: [],
+      unowned: [],
+      nationOps: [],
+      markers: {
+        add: [
+          { type: 'city', name: 'Good', regionKey: 'moselle-rygy' }, // valid + centroid → kept
+          { type: 'city', name: 'NoCent', regionKey: 'other-key' }, // in validKeys, no centroid → dropped
+          { type: 'city', name: 'Unknown', regionKey: 'zzz-not-a-key' }, // not in validKeys → dropped
+        ],
+        remove: [],
+      },
+    };
+    const next = applyTurnResult(state, result, validKeys, centroidOf2);
+    expect(next.markers).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(next.markers[0].name).toBe('Good');
+  });
+
+  it('caps the total marker count at MAX_MARKERS, dropping the newest add that exceeds the cap', () => {
+    const state = baseState();
+    // pre-seed the state with MAX_MARKERS - 1 distinct markers
+    const seeded: typeof state.markers = [];
+    for (let i = 0; i < MAX_MARKERS - 1; i++) {
+      const k = `seed-${i}`;
+      seeded.push({
+        id: markerId('city', `S${i}`, k),
+        type: 'city',
+        name: `S${i}`,
+        regionKey: k,
+        lat: 0, lon: 0,
+        ownerNationId: null,
+        placedTurn: 1,
+      });
+    }
+    state.markers = seeded;
+    // a permissive centroid: every region key resolves
+    const anyCentroid = () => ({ lat: 0, lon: 0, spread: 0 });
+    const result: TurnResult = {
+      date: '1939-09-03',
+      events: [],
+      stateChanges: [],
+      relations: [],
+      territoryChanges: [],
+      unowned: [],
+      nationOps: [],
+      markers: {
+        add: [
+          { type: 'city', name: 'NewA', regionKey: 'new-a' },
+          { type: 'city', name: 'NewB', regionKey: 'new-b' },
+        ],
+        remove: [],
+      },
+    };
+    const next = applyTurnResult(state, result, undefined, anyCentroid);
+    expect(next.markers).toHaveLength(MAX_MARKERS); // capped, not MAX_MARKERS + 1
+    expect(next.markers.some((m) => m.name === 'NewA')).toBe(true); // the 1st new one kept
+    expect(next.markers.some((m) => m.name === 'NewB')).toBe(false); // the 2nd (over cap) dropped
+  });
+
+  it('removes a marker by id; removing an absent id is a no-op', () => {
+    const state = baseState();
+    state.nations.uk.territory = ['moselle-rygy'];
+    const idA = markerId('city', 'Strasbourg', 'moselle-rygy');
+    const idB = markerId('port', 'Dunkirk', 'moselle-rygy');
+    state.markers = [
+      { id: idA, type: 'city', name: 'Strasbourg', regionKey: 'moselle-rygy', lat: 48, lon: 6, ownerNationId: 'uk', placedTurn: 1 },
+      { id: idB, type: 'port', name: 'Dunkirk', regionKey: 'moselle-rygy', lat: 48, lon: 6, ownerNationId: 'uk', placedTurn: 1 },
+    ];
+    const next = applyTurnResult(state, {
+      date: '1939-09-03', events: [], stateChanges: [], relations: [], territoryChanges: [],
+      unowned: [], nationOps: [], markers: { add: [], remove: [idA, 'zzzz-not-there'] },
+    }, undefined, centroidOf);
+    expect(next.markers).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(next.markers[0].id).toBe(idB); // only A removed; the bogus id was a no-op
+  });
+
+  it('a marker owner follows its region: released to no man\'s land → null; re-claimed → the new owner', () => {
+    const state = baseState();
+    state.nations.uk.territory = ['moselle-rygy'];
+    const idA = markerId('city', 'Strasbourg', 'moselle-rygy');
+    state.markers = [
+      { id: idA, type: 'city', name: 'Strasbourg', regionKey: 'moselle-rygy', lat: 48, lon: 6, ownerNationId: 'uk', placedTurn: 1 },
+    ];
+    // 1) uk releases the region → the marker becomes ownerless
+    const released = applyTurnResult(state, {
+      date: '1939-09-03', events: [], stateChanges: [], relations: [], territoryChanges: [],
+      unowned: ['moselle-rygy'], nationOps: [], markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
+    }, undefined, centroidOf);
+    expect(released.markers[0].ownerNationId).toBeNull();
+    // 2) de re-claims the region → the marker's owner follows to de
+    const reclaimed = applyTurnResult(released, {
+      date: '1939-09-05', events: [], stateChanges: [], relations: [],
+      territoryChanges: [{ nation: 'de', gain: ['moselle-rygy'], lose: [] }],
+      unowned: [], nationOps: [], markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
+    }, undefined, centroidOf);
+    expect(reclaimed.markers[0].ownerNationId).toBe('de');
+  });
+
+  it('the user prompt carries the existing markers when provided (and omits the field otherwise)', () => {
+    const state = baseState();
+    const info = {
+      id: markerId('city', 'Strasbourg', 'moselle-rygy'),
+      type: 'city' as MarkerType,
+      name: 'Strasbourg',
+      regionKey: 'moselle-rygy',
+      owner: 'uk',
+    };
+    const payload = JSON.parse(
+      buildUserPrompt(state, [], undefined, undefined, undefined, [info]),
+    ) as { markers?: Array<Record<string, unknown>> };
+    expect(payload.markers).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(payload.markers![0].name).toBe('Strasbourg');
+    expect(payload.markers![0].owner).toBe('uk');
+    // a bare call (no markers arg) omits the field entirely
+    const bare = JSON.parse(buildUserPrompt(state, [])) as { markers?: unknown };
+    expect(bare.markers).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('the system prompt documents the markers contract (field + placement rule + a type)', () => {
+    const prompt = buildSystemPrompt(preset);
+    expect(prompt).toMatch(/named points on the map/i);
+    expect(prompt).toMatch(/"markers"/);
+    expect(prompt).toMatch(/"add"/);
+    expect(prompt).toMatch(/"remove"/);
+    expect(prompt).toMatch(/gathering/);
+    expect(prompt).toMatch(/no man's land/); // owner recompute on release
+  });
+
+  it('validateMarkerOps cleans a raw markers field: drops bad types/empty names, dedupes, trims removes', () => {
+    const raw = {
+      add: [
+        { type: 'city', name: 'X', regionKey: 'a' },
+        { type: 'not-a-type', name: 'Y', regionKey: 'a' }, // invalid type -> dropped
+        { type: 'city', name: '   ', regionKey: 'a' }, // empty name -> dropped
+        { type: 'city', name: 'X', regionKey: 'a' }, // duplicate (same id) -> deduped
+        { type: 'port', name: 'Z', regionKey: 'b' }, // valid
+      ],
+      remove: ['id-1', 42, '', '  id-2  ', 'id-1'], // number/empty dropped, trimmed, deduped
+    };
+    const out = validateMarkerOps(raw);
+    expect(out.add.map((m) => m.name).sort()).toEqual(['X', 'Z']);
+    expect(out.remove).toEqual(['id-1', 'id-2']);
+  });
+
+  it('validateMarkerOps returns empty ops for a non-object raw value (a string, an array, null)', () => {
+    for (const bad of ['oops', [{ type: 'city', name: 'X', regionKey: 'a' }], null, undefined]) {
+      expect(validateMarkerOps(bad)).toEqual({ add: [], remove: [] });
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('runTurn wires the centroid through: a marker added over the LLM path is placed (owner = region owner)', async () => {
+    const result = JSON.stringify({
+      date: '1939-09-03',
+      events: [],
+      stateChanges: [],
+      relations: [],
+      territoryChanges: [{ nation: 'uk', gain: ['moselle-rygy'], lose: [] }],
+      unowned: [],
+      nationOps: [],
+      markers: { add: [{ type: 'city', name: 'Strasbourg', regionKey: 'moselle-rygy' }], remove: [] },
+    });
+    const { state } = await runTurn({
+      llm: fakeLlm([result]),
+      preset,
+      state: baseState(),
+      items: [],
+      centroidOf,
+    });
+    expect(state.markers).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(state.markers[0].name).toBe('Strasbourg');
+    expect(state.markers[0].ownerNationId).toBe('uk'); // uk gained the region this turn
+  });
+});
+
+// --- Per-region stats (v0.28, #46): the derived-stats model ------------------
+//
+// A nation's 0–100 stats are DERIVED as the area×population-weighted median of
+// the stats of the regions it owns (`GameState.regionStats`). These tests pin
+// the turn-level maintenance of that model in `applyTurnResult`:
+//   - a transferred region keeps its OWN stats (the conquest is what makes a
+//     nation's regions diverge);
+//   - a released region's entry is deleted (no man's land carries none);
+//   - a re-claimed region with no entry is re-inited to the gainer's stats;
+//   - a 0-region nation keeps its (directly-maintained) stats;
+//   - the end-of-turn recompute weights by area×population when `geoOf` is
+//     provided (and degrades to a uniform median without it).
+//
+// `applyTurnResult` is used directly (not `runTurn`) so the tests are pure and
+// don't depend on the LLM: the result objects below are constructed directly.
+
+const NS = (military: number, economy: number, stability: number, population: number): NationStats => ({
+  military,
+  economy,
+  stability,
+  population,
+});
+
+const RS = (military: number, economy: number, stability: number, population: number): RegionStats => ({
+  military,
+  economy,
+  stability,
+  population,
+});
+
+function mkNation(id: string, stats: NationStats, territory: string[]): Nation {
+  return { id, name: id.toUpperCase(), type: 'major', stats, territory, relations: {} };
+}
+
+function mkTurnState(
+  nations: Record<string, Nation>,
+  regionStats: Record<string, RegionStats>,
+  unowned: string[] = [],
+): GameState {
+  return {
+    id: 'g',
+    presetId: 'p',
+    presetTitle: 'P',
+    playerNationId: Object.keys(nations)[0] ?? '',
+    turn: 1,
+    date: '1939-09-01',
+    nations,
+    events: [],
+    pending: [],
+    version: 1,
+    unowned,
+    pendingNationOps: [],
+    markers: [],
+    regionStats,
+  };
+}
+
+function mkTurnResult(partial: Partial<TurnResult>): TurnResult {
+  return {
+    date: '1939-09-03',
+    events: partial.events ?? [],
+    stateChanges: partial.stateChanges ?? [],
+    relations: partial.relations ?? [],
+    territoryChanges: partial.territoryChanges ?? [],
+    unowned: partial.unowned ?? [],
+    nationOps: partial.nationOps ?? [],
+    markers: partial.markers ?? { add: [], remove: [] },
+  };
+}
+
+describe('applyTurnResult — per-region stats (v0.28, #46)', () => {
+  it('a transferred region keeps its OWN stats; the conqueror\'s aggregate blends them', () => {
+    // uk owns g1 (military 80), de owns d1 (military 95). de conquers g1.
+    const state = mkTurnState(
+      {
+        uk: mkNation('uk', NS(80, 70, 60, 50), ['g1']),
+        de: mkNation('de', NS(95, 90, 75, 90), ['d1']),
+      },
+      {
+        g1: RS(80, 70, 60, 50),
+        d1: RS(95, 90, 75, 90),
+      },
+    );
+    const next = applyTurnResult(
+      state,
+      mkTurnResult({ territoryChanges: [{ nation: 'de', gain: ['g1'], lose: [] }] }),
+    );
+    // territory moved
+    expect(next.nations.uk.territory).toEqual([]);
+    expect(next.nations.de.territory).toEqual(['d1', 'g1']);
+    // the transferred region KEPT its own (uk's) stats — not re-inited to de's
+    expect(next.regionStats.g1).toEqual(RS(80, 70, 60, 50));
+    expect(next.regionStats.d1).toEqual(RS(95, 90, 75, 90));
+    // de's derived stats are the (uniform) median of its two regions → pulled
+    // toward the conquered region's lower values
+    expect(next.nations.de.stats).toEqual(RS(80, 70, 60, 50));
+    // uk (now 0 regions) keeps its directly-maintained stats untouched
+    expect(next.nations.uk.stats).toEqual(NS(80, 70, 60, 50));
+  });
+
+  it('a released region leaves no-man\'s land and its stats entry is deleted', () => {
+    const state = mkTurnState(
+      { uk: mkNation('uk', NS(80, 70, 60, 50), ['g1', 'g2']) },
+      { g1: RS(80, 70, 60, 50), g2: RS(60, 60, 60, 60) },
+    );
+    const next = applyTurnResult(state, mkTurnResult({ unowned: ['g1'] }));
+    expect(next.unowned).toEqual(['g1']);
+    expect(next.nations.uk.territory).toEqual(['g2']);
+    // g1's stats left the table with the region; g2's stay
+    expect(next.regionStats).toEqual({ g2: RS(60, 60, 60, 60) });
+    // uk's derived stats now come only from g2
+    expect(next.nations.uk.stats).toEqual(RS(60, 60, 60, 60));
+  });
+
+  it('a re-claimed region with no entry is re-inited to the gainer\'s current stats', () => {
+    // g1 is unowned (released earlier; its stats entry was deleted). de owns d1.
+    const deStats = NS(95, 90, 75, 90);
+    const state = mkTurnState(
+      {
+        uk: mkNation('uk', NS(80, 70, 60, 50), []),
+        de: mkNation('de', deStats, ['d1']),
+      },
+      { d1: RS(95, 90, 75, 90) }, // g1 has NO entry (it was released)
+      ['g1'],
+    );
+    const next = applyTurnResult(state, mkTurnResult({ territoryChanges: [{ nation: 'de', gain: ['g1'], lose: [] }] }));
+    expect(next.unowned).toEqual([]); // g1 leaves no man's land
+    expect(next.nations.de.territory).toEqual(['d1', 'g1']);
+    // g1 was re-inited as a copy of de's (pre-stateChanges) stats
+    expect(next.regionStats.g1).toEqual(RS(95, 90, 75, 90));
+    // both of de's regions now hold identical stats → derived stats = those stats
+    expect(next.nations.de.stats).toEqual(RS(95, 90, 75, 90));
+  });
+
+  it('a 0-region nation keeps its directly-maintained stats (the recompute skips it)', () => {
+    const state = mkTurnState(
+      { uk: mkNation('uk', NS(80, 70, 60, 50), []) },
+      {},
+    );
+    const next = applyTurnResult(
+      state,
+      mkTurnResult({ stateChanges: [{ nation: 'uk', stat: 'military', op: 'set', value: 99 }] }),
+    );
+    expect(next.nations.uk.territory).toEqual([]);
+    // no regions to aggregate → the nation-level update sticks
+    expect(next.nations.uk.stats.military).toBe(99);
+    expect(next.regionStats).toEqual({});
+  });
+
+  it('the recompute weights by area×population: the larger region dominates (geoOf)', () => {
+    // uk owns two regions: a small one (military 50) and a large one (military
+    // 90). With area×population weighting the large region's value wins; without
+    // geo the uniform median picks the lower value (reached first at half-weight).
+    const state = mkTurnState(
+      { uk: mkNation('uk', NS(50, 50, 50, 50), ['big', 'small']) },
+      { big: RS(90, 90, 90, 90), small: RS(50, 50, 50, 50) },
+    );
+    const geoOf = (k: string) =>
+      k === 'big' ? { area: 1000, population: 1000 } : { area: 10, population: 100 };
+
+    const weighted = applyTurnResult(state, mkTurnResult({}), undefined, undefined, geoOf);
+    expect(weighted.nations.uk.stats).toEqual(RS(90, 90, 90, 90)); // the large region dominates
+
+    const uniform = applyTurnResult(state, mkTurnResult({})); // no geoOf
+    expect(uniform.nations.uk.stats).toEqual(RS(50, 50, 50, 50)); // uniform → lower value first
+  });
+
+  it('a nation-level stat change re-applies to every owned region (before the recompute)', () => {
+    // uk owns two identical regions. A nation-level `add` applies to each region
+    // and the derived (uniform) median tracks it; a 0-region sibling keeps its
+    // own nation-level update.
+    const state = mkTurnState(
+      {
+        uk: mkNation('uk', NS(50, 50, 50, 50), ['a', 'b']),
+        de: mkNation('de', NS(50, 50, 50, 50), []),
+      },
+      { a: RS(50, 50, 50, 50), b: RS(50, 50, 50, 50) },
+    );
+    const next = applyTurnResult(
+      state,
+      mkTurnResult({
+        stateChanges: [
+          { nation: 'uk', stat: 'economy', op: 'add', value: 20 },
+          { nation: 'de', stat: 'military', op: 'set', value: 77 },
+        ],
+      }),
+    );
+    // uk: both regions +20 economy → derived economy 70
+    expect(next.regionStats.a).toEqual(RS(50, 70, 50, 50));
+    expect(next.regionStats.b).toEqual(RS(50, 70, 50, 50));
+    expect(next.nations.uk.stats).toEqual(RS(50, 70, 50, 50));
+    // de: 0 regions → its nation-level set sticks
+    expect(next.nations.de.stats.military).toBe(77);
+  });
+
+  it('the original state is never mutated', () => {
+    const state = mkTurnState(
+      { uk: mkNation('uk', NS(80, 70, 60, 50), ['g1']), de: mkNation('de', NS(95, 90, 75, 90), ['d1']) },
+      { g1: RS(80, 70, 60, 50), d1: RS(95, 90, 75, 90) },
+    );
+    const beforeNations = JSON.stringify(state.nations);
+    const beforeRegions = JSON.stringify(state.regionStats);
+    applyTurnResult(state, mkTurnResult({ territoryChanges: [{ nation: 'de', gain: ['g1'], lose: [] }] }));
+    expect(JSON.stringify(state.nations)).toBe(beforeNations);
+    expect(JSON.stringify(state.regionStats)).toBe(beforeRegions);
+  });
+});
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import type {
  EventOutcome,
  EventType,
  GameState,
+  MapMarker,
  Nation,
  NationStats,
  Preset,
@@ -18,9 +19,16 @@ import { EVENT_TYPES, RELATION_STATUSES } from '../shared/types';
 import {
  addDays,
  clampStat,
+  deriveNationStats,
+  fnv1a32,
  isDateLike,
+  isMarkerType,
  makeEvent,
+  markerId,
+  MAX_MARKERS,
  nationForPrompt,
+  type MarkerInfo,
+  type MarkerSpec,
  type NationOp,
  type TurnEventSpec,
  type TurnResult,
@@ -187,12 +195,14 @@ export function buildSystemPrompt(preset: Preset, withNeighboursTool = false): s
    '    {"kind":"split","nationRef":"<nation id or name>","parts":[{"name":"<new name>","territory":["<region key>"]}]}',
    '    {"kind":"merge","nationRefs":["<id>","<id>"],"survivingRef":"<id of the surviving nation>","into":"<new name>"}',
    '  ],',
+    '  "markers": {"add":[{"type":"<city|factory|army|port|capital|fleet|rocket|gathering>","name":"<short name>","regionKey":"<region key>"}],"remove":["<marker id>"]}',
    '}',
    '',
    'HARD CONSTRAINTS',
    '- 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 and unowned.',
    '- List in "unowned" only region keys that a nation currently owns, and narrate each release in "events".',
+    '- Map markers ("markers") are named points on the map, anchored to a region key you own or that the narrative justifies: a capital (a nation\'s main seat of power — at most one per nation), major cities, factory complexes, army deployments, ports, fleet concentrations, rocket launch sites, or a gathering (a large political/social mass event that can enable a non-military takeover). Use only region keys from the "regions" table, keep each name under 40 characters, and place at most a handful of new markers per turn — only where the narrative justifies it. List a marker id from the user message\'s "markers" field in "remove" when it ceases to exist (a city razed, an army dispersed, a site destroyed).',
    '- Nation-management ops ("nationOps") are PROPOSALS: they only take effect if the player confirms them afterwards. Propose at most 1-2 per turn, only when the narrative justifies it, and narrate each one in "events".',
    '- Rename: add {"kind":"rename","nationRef":"<nation id or name>","to":"<new name>"} for a revolution, regime change or reunification that changes a nation\'s name.',
    '- Split: add {"kind":"split","nationRef":"<nation id or name>","parts":[{"name":"<new name>","territory":["<region key>"]}, ...]} when a state breaks up (dissolution, secession). Use at least 2 parts and assign each of the nation\'s region keys to at most one part — any key you leave unassigned goes to the first part.',
@@ -232,6 +242,14 @@ export function buildUserPrompt(
   * Omitted entirely when undefined.
   */
  noMansLand?: string[],
+  /**
+   * (v0.27, #44) The game's current map markers, as the model sees them:
+   * stable id, type, name, region key and current owner. Emitted verbatim
+   * (even when empty) so the model can reference a marker's id in
+   * `TurnResult.markers.remove` or leave an existing marker untouched.
+   * Omitted entirely when undefined.
+   */
+  markers?: MarkerInfo[],
 ): string {
  const player = state.nations[state.playerNationId];
  const playerName = player?.name ?? state.playerNationId;
@@ -270,6 +288,7 @@ export function buildUserPrompt(
  if (regionReference) payload.regions = regionReference;
  if (frontier !== undefined) payload.frontier = frontier;
  if (noMansLand !== undefined) payload.unowned = noMansLand;
+  if (markers !== undefined) payload.markers = markers;
  return JSON.stringify(payload, null, 2);
 }

@@ -393,6 +412,7 @@ export function validateTurnResult(input: unknown): TurnResult | null {
    territoryChanges: [],
    unowned: [],
    nationOps: [],
+    markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
  };

  if (Array.isArray(o.events)) {
@@ -482,9 +502,51 @@ export function validateTurnResult(input: unknown): TurnResult | null {
  // list for the player to confirm/reject.
  result.nationOps = validateNationOps(o.nationOps);

+  // (v0.27, #44) Map-marker ops: new placements (validated here) and
+  // removals by stable id. Applied by applyTurnResult after the territory
+  // moves (a new marker's owner is the region's post-turn owner).
+  result.markers = validateMarkerOps(o.markers);
+
  return result;
 }

+/**
+ * (v0.27, #44) Validate the raw `markers` object of a turn into a safe
+ * `{ add, remove }` shape. Defensive like the rest of the parser — never
+ * throws. `add`: each spec needs a known marker type, a non-empty `name`
+ * (capped at 120 chars) and a non-empty `regionKey` (capped at 120 chars);
+ * specs whose derived id collides with an earlier one in the same batch
+ * collapse to the first (re-adding is idempotent). `remove`: deduped,
+ * non-empty marker ids (capped at 120 chars).
+ */
+export function validateMarkerOps(raw: unknown): { add: MarkerSpec[]; remove: string[] } {
+  const out: { add: MarkerSpec[]; remove: string[] } = { add: [], remove: [] };
+  if (!raw || typeof raw !== 'object' || Array.isArray(raw)) return out;
+  const o = raw as Record<string, unknown>;
+  if (Array.isArray(o.add)) {
+    const seen = new Set<string>();
+    for (const e of o.add) {
+      if (!e || typeof e !== 'object') continue;
+      const s = e as Record<string, unknown>;
+      if (!isMarkerType(s.type)) continue;
+      const name = str(s.name, 120);
+      const regionKey = str(s.regionKey, 120);
+      if (!name || !regionKey) continue;
+      const id = markerId(s.type, name, regionKey);
+      if (seen.has(id)) continue;
+      seen.add(id);
+      out.add.push({ type: s.type, name, regionKey });
+    }
+  }
+  if (Array.isArray(o.remove)) {
+    for (const k of o.remove) {
+      const s = typeof k === 'string' ? k.trim() : '';
+      if (s && !out.remove.includes(s)) out.remove.push(s.slice(0, 120));
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
 /**
 * A turn is "meaningful" if it produced at least an event, a stat change, a
 * no-man's-land release (v0.22 #16 P3: a release is a real world change even
@@ -498,7 +560,10 @@ export function isMeaningful(result: TurnResult): boolean {
    result.events.length > 0 ||
    result.stateChanges.length > 0 ||
    result.unowned.length > 0 ||
-    result.nationOps.length > 0
+    result.nationOps.length > 0 ||
+    // (v0.27, #44) a marker placed or removed this turn is a real world change.
+    result.markers.add.length > 0 ||
+    result.markers.remove.length > 0
  );
 }

@@ -516,15 +581,38 @@ 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 (including no-man's-land releases, v0.22 #16 P3). It also appends any
- * proposed nation-ops to the pending list (v0.23 #16 P4a) without applying
- * them — see the doc comment on `pendingNationOps` for why that list
- * deliberately survives across turns.
+ * events, apply stat changes (clamped), symmetric relations, territory moves
+ * (including no-man's-land releases, v0.22 #16 P3) and map markers (v0.27
+ * #44). It also appends any proposed nation-ops to the pending list (v0.23
+ * #16 P4a) without applying them — see the doc comment on `pendingNationOps`
+ * for why that list deliberately survives across turns.
+ *
+ * `centroidOf` (v0.27, #44) resolves a region key to its precomputed centroid
+ * (`{ lat, lon, spread }`, from public/region-centroids.json via
+ * server/regions.ts). New markers are positioned at that centroid plus a small
+ * deterministic offset; a spec whose key has no known centroid is dropped.
+ * Without it no marker can be placed (all adds are dropped), which keeps the
+ * engine pure and lets tests inject their own data.
+ *
+ * `geoOf` (v0.28, #46) resolves a region key to its area + population
+ * (from public/region-geo.json via server/regions.ts), used to weight the
+ * end-of-turn recompute of each nation's derived stats as the
+ * area×population-weighted median of its regions' stats. Without it the
+ * recompute degrades to an unweighted median (every region weight 1) — still
+ * region-consistent, just unweighted. The engine stays pure either way.
 */
-export function applyTurnResult(state: GameState, result: TurnResult, validKeys?: ReadonlySet<string>): GameState {
+export function applyTurnResult(
+  state: GameState,
+  result: TurnResult,
+  validKeys?: ReadonlySet<string>,
+  centroidOf?: (key: string) => { lat: number; lon: number; spread: number } | undefined,
+  geoOf?: (key: string) => { area: number; population: number } | undefined,
+): GameState {
  const next: GameState = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(state));
  next.version = (state.version ?? 0) + 1; // every mutation is a new revision
+  // (v0.28, #46) per-region stats table; a legacy/corrupt clone without the
+  // field starts empty (the turn then re-inits claimed regions as it goes).
+  next.regionStats = next.regionStats ?? {};
  const actingTurn = state.turn; // this action resolves the current turn
  next.turn = state.turn + 1; // then we advance to the next turn to play
  next.date = isDateLike(result.date) ? result.date : addDays(state.date, 2);
@@ -533,11 +621,6 @@ export function applyTurnResult(state: GameState, result: TurnResult, validKeys?
  for (const ev of result.events) {
    next.events.push(makeEvent(ev, actingTurn, next.date));
  }
-  for (const c of result.stateChanges) {
-    const n = next.nations[c.nation];
-    if (!n) continue;
-    n.stats[c.stat] = c.op === 'set' ? clampStat(c.value) : clampStat(n.stats[c.stat] + c.value);
-  }
  for (const r of result.relations) {
    const a = next.nations[r.a];
    const b = next.nations[r.b];
@@ -587,6 +670,10 @@ export function applyTurnResult(state: GameState, result: TurnResult, validKeys?
    if (owners.length !== 1) continue; // 0 owners (never assigned) or 2+ (corrupt): no-op
    unowned.add(key);
    next.nations[owners[0]].territory = next.nations[owners[0]].territory.filter((k) => k !== key);
+    // (v0.28, #46) a released region leaves no-man's land ownerless — its
+    // per-region stats leave the table with it (no man's land carries none;
+    // a later re-claim re-inits the entry from the gainer, see below).
+    delete next.regionStats[key];
  }

  // (2) Claims against the post-release ownership snapshot.
@@ -633,9 +720,119 @@ export function applyTurnResult(state: GameState, result: TurnResult, validKeys?
    }
    next.nations[gainer].territory.push(key);
    unowned.delete(key); // re-claimed: the key leaves no man's land
+    // (v0.28, #46) a transferred region keeps its own per-region stats (the
+    // conquest is what makes a nation's regions diverge); only a re-claimed
+    // region that has no entry left (it was released earlier this turn) is
+    // re-inited as a copy of the gainer's current stats, so the recompute
+    // below never sees a hole in the table.
+    if (!next.regionStats[key]) next.regionStats[key] = { ...next.nations[gainer].stats };
  }

  next.unowned = [...unowned];
+
+  // --- Per-region stats (v0.28, #46): nation-level stateChanges re-applied to
+  //     the regions, then every nation's stats recomputed as the derived
+  //     area×population-weighted median of its regions ---
+  //
+  //  (a) A nation-level stat change (`stateChanges`) is re-interpreted as
+  //      applying to EVERY region the nation owns: each owned region's copy of
+  //      that stat gets the same `set`/`add` (clamped to 0–100), and the
+  //      nation-level stat is updated too (it is kept as-is for nations the
+  //      recompute below does not touch — see (b) — and overwritten for the
+  //      rest, where the regions are the source of truth).
+  //
+  //  (b) RECOMPUTE: every nation's `stats` is re-derived as the weighted
+  //      median of its owned regions' stats (via deriveNationStats, weighted
+  //      by area×population when `geoOf` is available, unweighted otherwise).
+  //      Two guards keep degenerate states sane: a nation with NO regions
+  //      keeps its stats untouched (it has no regions to aggregate), and a
+  //      nation none of whose regions has a stats entry keeps its stats
+  //      too (deriveNationStats would return zeros, which would be wrong).
+  //      This recompute is what makes a conquered region's foreign stats
+  //      blend into the conqueror's aggregate and keeps the derived stats in
+  //      lockstep with the per-region table across the turn's changes.
+  for (const c of result.stateChanges) {
+    const n = next.nations[c.nation];
+    if (!n) continue;
+    for (const key of n.territory) {
+      const rs = next.regionStats[key];
+      if (!rs) continue; // a key with no entry is skipped (recompute does the same)
+      rs[c.stat] = c.op === 'set' ? clampStat(c.value) : clampStat(rs[c.stat] + c.value);
+    }
+    n.stats[c.stat] = c.op === 'set' ? clampStat(c.value) : clampStat(n.stats[c.stat] + c.value);
+  }
+  for (const n of Object.values(next.nations)) {
+    if (n.territory.length === 0) continue; // 0-region guard: no regions to aggregate
+    if (!n.territory.some((k) => next.regionStats[k])) continue; // no entry: keep n.stats
+    n.stats = deriveNationStats(n.territory, next.regionStats, geoOf);
+  }
+
+  // --- Map markers (v0.27, #44) ---
+  //
+  // Markers are anchored to a region key and are processed against the FINAL
+  // post-claim ownership, in this order:
+  //   (1) REMOVE: a marker whose id is in result.markers.remove is dropped
+  //       (a listed-but-absent id is a no-op).
+  //   (2) OWNER RECOMPUTE: every surviving marker's ownerNationId is set to
+  //       its region's current owner — a captured region follows the new
+  //       owner, a region released to no man's land (or a key with 0 or 2+
+  //       owners) becomes `null`. A marker always follows its region.
+  //   (3) ADD: each new spec (in order) is placed at its region's centroid
+  //       (injected via centroidOf) plus a small deterministic per-axis
+  //       offset, owned by the region's post-turn owner, and stamped with
+  //       the acting turn. Dropped (never throws): a region key that is not
+  //       in validKeys or has no known centroid, an id that already exists
+  //       (a re-add is idempotent — the existing marker stays), and any adds
+  //       beyond MAX_MARKERS (the later ones).
+  {
+    const finalOwner = new Map<string, string | null>();
+    {
+      const owners = new Map<string, string[]>();
+      for (const n of Object.values(next.nations)) {
+        for (const key of n.territory) {
+          if (!valid(key)) continue;
+          const list = owners.get(key);
+          if (list) list.push(n.id);
+          else owners.set(key, [n.id]);
+        }
+      }
+      for (const [key, list] of owners) finalOwner.set(key, list.length === 1 ? list[0] : null);
+    }
+    const removeIds = new Set(result.markers.remove);
+    const markers: MapMarker[] = [];
+    for (const m of next.markers ?? []) {
+      if (removeIds.has(m.id)) continue;
+      markers.push({ ...m, ownerNationId: finalOwner.get(m.regionKey) ?? null });
+    }
+    // Deterministic ±(spread/2) offset per axis: a FNV-1a-derived unit
+    // fraction of the marker id (stable across runs and platforms), so
+    // markers of one region scatter naturally instead of stacking.
+    const jitter = (id: string, axis: 'lat' | 'lon', spread: number): number => {
+      const frac = (fnv1a32(`${id}#${axis}`) >>> 8) / 0x00ffffff;
+      return (frac * 2 - 1) * (spread / 2);
+    };
+    const round6 = (v: number): number => Math.round(v * 1e6) / 1e6;
+    for (const spec of result.markers.add) {
+      const id = markerId(spec.type, spec.name, spec.regionKey);
+      if (markers.some((m) => m.id === id)) continue; // re-add: idempotent, keep the existing
+      if (markers.length >= MAX_MARKERS) continue; // hard cap: drop the excess
+      if (!valid(spec.regionKey)) continue; // unknown region key
+      const c = centroidOf?.(spec.regionKey);
+      if (!c) continue; // no centroid data for this key
+      markers.push({
+        id,
+        type: spec.type,
+        name: spec.name,
+        regionKey: spec.regionKey,
+        lat: round6(c.lat + jitter(id, 'lat', c.spread)),
+        lon: round6(c.lon + jitter(id, 'lon', c.spread)),
+        ownerNationId: finalOwner.get(spec.regionKey) ?? null,
+        placedTurn: actingTurn,
+      });
+    }
+    next.markers = markers;
+  }
+
  // (v0.23, #16 P4a) Nation-op proposals are NOT applied by the turn — they
  // are appended to the pending list, which (unlike `pending`) SURVIVES
  // across turns until the player confirms or rejects each one. `next` is a
@@ -965,15 +1162,39 @@ export async function runTurn(opts: {
   * switches the turn onto the getNeighbours tool path.
   */
  getNeighbours?: (keys: string[]) => string[];
+  /**
+   * (v0.27, #44) Region-key -> precomputed centroid resolver (from
+   * public/region-centroids.json). Present, the turn's new markers can be
+   * placed at their region's centroid; absent, marker adds are dropped and
+   * the existing markers' owners still get recomputed.
+   */
+  centroidOf?: (key: string) => { lat: number; lon: number; spread: number } | undefined;
+  /**
+   * (v0.28, #46) Region-key -> area/population resolver (from
+   * public/region-geo.json). Present, the end-of-turn recompute of each
+   * nation's derived stats weights each owned region by area×population;
+   * absent, the recompute degrades to an unweighted (uniform) median —
+   * still region-consistent, just unweighted.
+   */
+  geoOf?: (key: string) => { area: number; population: number } | undefined;
 }): Promise<{ state: GameState; result: TurnResult }> {
-  const { llm, preset, state, items, regionReference, validRegionKeys, getNeighbours } = opts;
+  const { llm, preset, state, items, regionReference, validRegionKeys, getNeighbours, centroidOf, geoOf } = opts;
  const chatWithTools = llm.chatWithTools;
  const useTools = getNeighbours !== undefined && chatWithTools !== undefined;
  const system = buildSystemPrompt(preset, useTools);
  const frontier = getNeighbours ? playerFrontier(state, getNeighbours) : undefined;
  // (v0.22, #16 P3) the model always sees the current no-man's-land keys (empty
  // list on a fresh game) so it knows which unowned regions can be re-claimed.
-  const user = buildUserPrompt(state, items, regionReference, frontier, state.unowned ?? []);
+  // (v0.27, #44) likewise the current map markers, so it can reference their
+  // stable ids in `markers.remove` (or leave them untouched).
+  const markers = (state.markers ?? []).map((m) => ({
+    id: m.id,
+    type: m.type,
+    name: m.name,
+    regionKey: m.regionKey,
+    owner: m.ownerNationId,
+  }));
+  const user = buildUserPrompt(state, items, regionReference, frontier, state.unowned ?? [], markers);
  const nudge =
    'Your previous output was invalid. Respond with ONLY the JSON object described above for this batch — no prose, no fences.';

@@ -1018,10 +1239,11 @@ export async function runTurn(opts: {
      territoryChanges: [],
      unowned: [],
      nationOps: [],
+      markers: { add: [], remove: [] },
    };
  }

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

 // --- Advisor (brainstorm) -----------------------------------------------------
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { existsSync } from 'node:fs';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';

-import { deepClone } from '../shared/protocol';
+import { deepClone, seedRegionStats } from '../shared/protocol';
 import type {
  AddActionRequest,
  AddDiplomacyRequest,
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import { createLlmClient } from './llm';
 import { makeStubLlmClient } from './stub';
 import { askAdvisor, confirmNationOp, queueRoundItem, rejectNationOp, removeRoundItem, runTurn } from './engine';
 import { buildRegionMap } from './map';
-import { allTerritoryKeys, expandCountriesToKeys, hasAdjacency, loadRegions, neighboursOf, referenceForKeys, validKeys } from './regions';
+import { allTerritoryKeys, centroidOf, expandCountriesToKeys, geoOf, hasAdjacency, hasCentroids, hasGeo, loadRegions, neighboursOf, referenceForKeys, validKeys } from './regions';
 import { createPresetStore } from './presets';
 import { openDb, type Db } from './db';

@@ -134,11 +134,20 @@ app.post('/api/games', (req: Request, res) => {
    // list grows as the LLM proposes renames (and, later, splits/merges) and
    // shrinks as the player confirms or rejects them.
    pendingNationOps: [],
+    // (v0.27, #44) No markers on a fresh game; the LLM places them over time.
+    markers: [],
+    // (v0.28, #46) Per-region stats are seeded below, once territories hold
+    // real region keys — each region starts as a copy of its owner's initial
+    // stats, so the derived aggregate equals the nation's stats on turn 1.
+    regionStats: {},
  };
  // 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);
+  // (v0.28, #46): seed per-region stats AFTER the expansion so each owned
+  // region key gets its owner's initial stats (see seedRegionStats).
+  state.regionStats = seedRegionStats(state.nations);
  db.save(state);
  res.json({ game: state });
 });
@@ -288,6 +297,16 @@ app.post('/api/games/:id/jump', async (req, res) => {
      // engine the resolver — the turn then runs with the LLM's getNeighbours
      // tool and the player-frontier prompt field (both switch off without it).
      getNeighbours: hasAdjacency() ? (keys) => neighboursOf(keys) : undefined,
+      // (v0.27, #44) when the centroid manifest loaded, hand the engine the
+      // resolver so a turn can place new map markers at their region's
+      // centroid (without it, marker adds are dropped; existing markers are
+      // still maintained).
+      centroidOf: hasCentroids() ? (key) => centroidOf(key) : undefined,
+      // (v0.28, #46) when the region-geo manifest (area + population) loaded,
+      // hand the engine the resolver so the end-of-turn recompute weights each
+      // owned region by area×population (without it the aggregate degrades to
+      // an unweighted median — still region-consistent, just unweighted).
+      geoOf: hasGeo() ? (key) => geoOf(key) : undefined,
    });
    db.save(state);
    broadcast(id, 'turn', { state, result });
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ const state: GameState = {
  version: 1,
  unowned: [],
  pendingNationOps: [],
+  markers: [],
+  // (v0.28, #46) the map is ownership-only; the region-stats table is unused here.
+  regionStats: {},
 };

 // The RegionMap built from the fixture: the authoritative region key → owner source.
@@ -0,0 +1,220 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import {
+  deriveNationStats,
+  migrateRegionStats,
+  seedRegionStats,
+  weightedMedian,
+} from '../shared/protocol';
+import type { GameState, Nation, NationStats } from '../shared/types';
+
+// --- Test fixtures -----------------------------------------------------------
+
+const S = (military: number, economy: number, stability: number, population: number): NationStats => ({
+  military,
+  economy,
+  stability,
+  population,
+});
+
+function nation(id: string, name: string, stats: NationStats, territory: string[]): Nation {
+  return { id, name, type: 'major', stats, territory, relations: {} };
+}
+
+function mkState(
+  nations: Record<string, Nation>,
+  regionStats?: Record<string, unknown>,
+): GameState {
+  const base: GameState = {
+    id: 'g',
+    presetId: 'p',
+    presetTitle: 'P',
+    playerNationId: Object.keys(nations)[0] ?? '',
+    turn: 1,
+    date: '1939-09-01',
+    nations,
+    events: [],
+    pending: [],
+    version: 1,
+    unowned: [],
+    pendingNationOps: [],
+    markers: [],
+    regionStats: {} as GameState['regionStats'],
+  };
+  if (regionStats !== undefined) base.regionStats = regionStats as GameState['regionStats'];
+  else delete (base as { regionStats?: unknown }).regionStats; // simulate a legacy row
+  return base;
+}
+
+// --- weightedMedian ----------------------------------------------------------
+
+describe('weightedMedian', () => {
+  it('returns 0 for an empty input or zero total weight', () => {
+    expect(weightedMedian([], [])).toBe(0);
+    expect(weightedMedian([5, 6], [0, 0])).toBe(0); // zero weights
+    expect(weightedMedian([5, 6], [NaN, -1])).toBe(0); // non-finite / non-positive → 0
+  });
+
+  it('returns the single value when it is the only weighted input', () => {
+    expect(weightedMedian([42], [7])).toBe(42);
+  });
+
+  it('the median of a set of IDENTICAL values is that value (translation-invariant)', () => {
+    // The invariant seeding + legacy migration rely on: equal values → that value,
+    // regardless of the (arbitrary) weights.
+    expect(weightedMedian([7, 7, 7], [1, 5, 9])).toBe(7);
+    expect(weightedMedian([0, 0], [10, 20])).toBe(0);
+    expect(weightedMedian([100, 100, 100], [1, 1, 1000])).toBe(100);
+    // and a constant shift shifts the result by the same constant
+    expect(weightedMedian([107, 107, 107], [1, 5, 9])).toBe(weightedMedian([7, 7, 7], [1, 5, 9]) + 100);
+  });
+
+  it('picks the value at the first point the cumulative weight reaches half the total', () => {
+    // two equal weights: the lower value is reached first (cum 1 of 2 ≥ 1)
+    expect(weightedMedian([10, 20], [1, 1])).toBe(10);
+    // an odd middle: the true middle value
+    expect(weightedMedian([10, 20, 30], [1, 1, 1])).toBe(20);
+    // the heavier value dominates
+    expect(weightedMedian([10, 20], [1, 3])).toBe(20);
+    expect(weightedMedian([10, 20], [3, 1])).toBe(10);
+  });
+
+  it('treats non-finite or non-positive weights as excluded (0)', () => {
+    // NaN weight on 10, positive on 20 → only 20 counts
+    expect(weightedMedian([10, 20], [NaN, 1])).toBe(20);
+    // negative weight on 20, positive on 10 → only 10 counts
+    expect(weightedMedian([10, 20], [1, -5])).toBe(10);
+  });
+});
+
+// --- deriveNationStats -------------------------------------------------------
+
+describe('deriveNationStats', () => {
+  const regionStats = {
+    a: S(50, 50, 50, 50),
+    b: S(90, 90, 90, 90),
+  };
+  const geo: Record<string, { area: number; population: number }> = { a: { area: 100, population: 1000 }, b: { area: 1000, population: 1000 } };
+
+  it('weights by area×population: the larger region dominates the aggregate', () => {
+    // a: weight 100×1000=100000, b: weight 1000×1000=1000000 → b (90) dominates
+    const out = deriveNationStats(['a', 'b'], regionStats, (k) => geo[k]);
+    expect(out).toEqual(S(90, 90, 90, 90));
+  });
+
+  it('degrades to a uniform (unweighted) median without geo: the lower value is reached first', () => {
+    // equal weights 1,1 → the lower (a=50) is reached at half-total first
+    const out = deriveNationStats(['a', 'b'], regionStats);
+    expect(out).toEqual(S(50, 50, 50, 50));
+    // same when geoOf is provided but returns undefined for the keys (missing geo)
+    const out2 = deriveNationStats(['a', 'b'], regionStats, () => undefined);
+    expect(out2).toEqual(S(50, 50, 50, 50));
+  });
+
+  it('skips a region key that has no stats entry', () => {
+    // b has no entry → only a is counted → a's (50) values
+    const out = deriveNationStats(['a', 'b'], { a: S(50, 50, 50, 50) }, (k) => geo[k]);
+    expect(out).toEqual(S(50, 50, 50, 50));
+  });
+
+  it('returns zero stats when none of the owned regions has a stats entry', () => {
+    const out = deriveNationStats(['a', 'b'], {}, (k) => geo[k]);
+    expect(out).toEqual(S(0, 0, 0, 0));
+  });
+
+  it('a single region yields exactly that region\'s stats (the seeding invariant)', () => {
+    expect(deriveNationStats(['a'], regionStats, (k) => geo[k])).toEqual(S(50, 50, 50, 50));
+    expect(deriveNationStats(['a'], regionStats)).toEqual(S(50, 50, 50, 50));
+  });
+
+  it('treats zero/negative area or population as a fallback weight of 1', () => {
+    // a has area 0 (weight falls back to 1×pop), b has full weight → b dominates
+    const g: Record<string, { area: number; population: number }> = { a: { area: 0, population: 1000 }, b: { area: 1000, population: 1000 } };
+    const out = deriveNationStats(['a', 'b'], regionStats, (k) => g[k]);
+    expect(out).toEqual(S(90, 90, 90, 90));
+  });
+});
+
+// --- seedRegionStats ---------------------------------------------------------
+
+describe('seedRegionStats', () => {
+  it('copies each owner\'s stats to every region it owns', () => {
+    const nations = {
+      uk: nation('uk', 'UK', S(80, 70, 60, 50), ['k1', 'k2']),
+      de: nation('de', 'DE', S(95, 70, 75, 90), ['k3']),
+    };
+    expect(seedRegionStats(nations)).toEqual({
+      k1: S(80, 70, 60, 50),
+      k2: S(80, 70, 60, 50),
+      k3: S(95, 70, 75, 90),
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('gives the first owner\'s stats a key owned by two or more nations (corrupt)', () => {
+    const nations = {
+      a: nation('a', 'A', S(10, 10, 10, 10), ['k1']),
+      b: nation('b', 'B', S(90, 90, 90, 90), ['k1']),
+    };
+    expect(seedRegionStats(nations)).toEqual({ k1: S(10, 10, 10, 10) });
+  });
+
+  it('returns an empty table for nations with no territory', () => {
+    const nations = { a: nation('a', 'A', S(10, 10, 10, 10), []) };
+    expect(seedRegionStats(nations)).toEqual({});
+  });
+});
+
+// --- migrateRegionStats ------------------------------------------------------
+
+describe('migrateRegionStats', () => {
+  it('returns a v0.28+ row (regionStats present) UNCHANGED — same reference, no recompute', () => {
+    const state = mkState(
+      { uk: nation('uk', 'UK', S(42, 70, 60, 50), ['k1']) },
+      { k1: S(99, 70, 60, 50) }, // deliberately divergent from the nation stats
+    );
+    const out = migrateRegionStats(state);
+    expect(out).toBe(state); // same reference: untouched
+    expect(out.regionStats).toEqual({ k1: S(99, 70, 60, 50) });
+    expect(out.nations.uk.stats).toEqual(S(42, 70, 60, 50)); // NOT recomputed from the region
+  });
+
+  it('migrates a legacy row (regionStats absent): seeds each owned region and preserves stats', () => {
+    const state = mkState({
+      uk: nation('uk', 'UK', S(80, 70, 60, 50), ['k1', 'k2', 'k3']),
+      de: nation('de', 'DE', S(95, 70, 75, 90), ['k4']),
+    });
+    // sanity: we built a legacy row
+    expect((state as { regionStats?: unknown }).regionStats).toBeUndefined();
+
+    const out = migrateRegionStats(state, (k) =>
+      k === 'k1' ? { area: 100, population: 1000 }
+      : k === 'k2' ? { area: 1, population: 1 }
+      : k === 'k3' ? { area: 9, population: 9 }
+      : { area: 50, population: 500 });
+    // each owned region is seeded with a copy of its owner's stats…
+    expect(out.regionStats).toEqual({
+      k1: S(80, 70, 60, 50),
+      k2: S(80, 70, 60, 50),
+      k3: S(80, 70, 60, 50),
+      k4: S(95, 70, 75, 90),
+    });
+    // …and the (multi-region) nation's stats are PRESERVED: the weighted median of
+    // identical values is that value, regardless of the (uneven) weights.
+    expect(out.nations.uk.stats).toEqual(S(80, 70, 60, 50));
+    expect(out.nations.de.stats).toEqual(S(95, 70, 75, 90));
+    // the original row is NOT mutated
+    expect((state as { regionStats?: unknown }).regionStats).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(state.nations.uk.stats).toEqual(S(80, 70, 60, 50));
+  });
+
+  it('a legacy 0-region nation keeps its stats (no recompute, no entries)', () => {
+    const state = mkState({
+      uk: nation('uk', 'UK', S(80, 70, 60, 50), []),
+      de: nation('de', 'DE', S(95, 70, 75, 90), ['k1']),
+    });
+    const out = migrateRegionStats(state);
+    expect(out.nations.uk.stats).toEqual(S(80, 70, 60, 50)); // unchanged
+    expect(out.nations.de.stats).toEqual(S(95, 70, 75, 90)); // single region → preserved
+    expect(out.regionStats).toEqual({ k1: S(95, 70, 75, 90) });
+    expect('uk' in (out.regionStats ?? {})).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
@@ -5,8 +5,12 @@ import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import {
  allTerritoryKeys,
+  centroidOf,
  expandCountriesToKeys,
+  geoOf,
  hasAdjacency,
+  hasCentroids,
+  hasGeo,
  hasRegionData,
  loadRegions,
  neighboursOf,
@@ -103,6 +107,9 @@ describe('regions (region-key loader, v0.19 #16 P1)', () => {
      version: 1,
      unowned: [],
      pendingNationOps: [],
+      markers: [],
+      // (v0.28, #46) unused here (allTerritoryKeys is ownership-only).
+      regionStats: {},
    };
    // 16 GBR sub-regions + 42 FRA sub-regions, no overlap between the two.
    expect(allTerritoryKeys(state).size).toBe(58);
@@ -133,6 +140,34 @@ describe('regions (region-key loader, v0.19 #16 P1)', () => {
    expect(neighboursOf([])).toEqual([]);
  });

+  it('(v0.27 #44) hasCentroids() is true and centroidOf resolves a real key to a plausible location', () => {
+    expect(hasCentroids()).toBe(true);
+    const ain = centroidOf('ain-lqtt');
+    expect(ain).toBeDefined();
+    expect(ain!.lat).toBeCloseTo(46.16, 1);
+    expect(ain!.lon).toBeCloseTo(4.8, 1);
+    expect(ain!.spread).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  });
+
+  it('(v0.27 #44) centroidOf returns undefined for an unknown key', () => {
+    expect(centroidOf('not-a-real-key-xyz')).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('(v0.28 #46) hasGeo() is true and geoOf resolves a real key to area + population', () => {
+    expect(hasGeo()).toBe(true);
+    const ain = geoOf('ain-lqtt');
+    expect(ain).toBeDefined();
+    expect(ain!.area).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0); // km²
+    expect(ain!.population).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+    // exact spot-check values pinned from the committed manifest (Ain, FRA)
+    expect(ain!.area).toBeCloseTo(22557.77, 1); // km²
+    expect(ain!.population).toBe(2304126);
+  });
+
+  it('(v0.28 #46) geoOf returns undefined for an unknown key', () => {
+    expect(geoOf('not-a-real-key-xyz')).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
  describe('graceful degradation with no region data', () => {
    beforeEach(() => resetRegions());

@@ -146,6 +181,12 @@ describe('regions (region-key loader, v0.19 #16 P1)', () => {
      // and no adjacency: the LLM tool / frontier field switch off
      expect(hasAdjacency()).toBe(false);
      expect(neighboursOf(['moselle-rygy'])).toEqual([]);
+      // and no centroids: the marker-placement path degrades to a no-op
+      expect(hasCentroids()).toBe(false);
+      expect(centroidOf('ain-lqtt')).toBeUndefined();
+      // and no region-geo: the per-region stats weighting degrades to uniform
+      expect(hasGeo()).toBe(false);
+      expect(geoOf('ain-lqtt')).toBeUndefined();
    });
  });

@@ -197,6 +238,37 @@ describe('loadRegions resolves the manifest per environment (dev public/ vs prod
    expect(loadRegions(prodRoot)).toBe(true);
    expect(hasAdjacency()).toBe(false);
    expect(neighboursOf(['moselle-rygy'])).toEqual([]);
+    // and no centroids (not copied into this dist/) -> marker placement degrades
+    expect(hasCentroids()).toBe(false);
+    expect(centroidOf('ain-lqtt')).toBeUndefined();
+    // and no region-geo (not copied into this dist/) -> stats weighting is uniform
+    expect(hasGeo()).toBe(false);
+    expect(geoOf('ain-lqtt')).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('(v0.27 #44) a dist/ WITH the centroids manifest loads them (prod layout)', () => {
+    copyFileSync(
+      path.join(realRoot, 'public', 'region-centroids.json'),
+      path.join(prodRoot, 'dist', 'region-centroids.json'),
+    );
+    expect(loadRegions(prodRoot)).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasCentroids()).toBe(true);
+    const ain = centroidOf('ain-lqtt');
+    expect(ain).toBeDefined();
+    expect(ain!.lat).toBeCloseTo(46.16, 1);
+  });
+
+  it('(v0.28 #46) a dist/ WITH the region-geo manifest loads it (prod layout)', () => {
+    copyFileSync(
+      path.join(realRoot, 'public', 'region-geo.json'),
+      path.join(prodRoot, 'dist', 'region-geo.json'),
+    );
+    expect(loadRegions(prodRoot)).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasGeo()).toBe(true);
+    const ain = geoOf('ain-lqtt');
+    expect(ain).toBeDefined();
+    expect(ain!.area).toBeCloseTo(22557.77, 1);
+    expect(ain!.population).toBe(2304126);
  });

  it('returns false and no data when neither public/ nor dist/ holds the files', () => {
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 // (region-keys.json: stable feature id -> region key), the sub-national geo
 // (regions.geo.json: feature id -> { name, parent }), and — optionally — the
 // precomputed region-adjacency manifest (region-adjacency.json: region key ->
-// bordering region keys, built by scripts/build-region-adjacency.mjs) — all
+// bordering region keys, built by scripts/build-region-adjacency.mjs) and the
+// precomputed region-centroid manifest (region-centroids.json: region key ->
+// { lat, lon, spread }, built by scripts/build-region-centroids.mjs) — all
 // from public/ in dev (Vite serves it) or dist/ in prod (Vite copies
 // public/* -> dist/ at build, and the Docker image keeps only dist/) — and
 // joins them into the lookups the region-level ownership model needs:
@@ -13,6 +15,10 @@
 //   - neighboursOf(): the union of the bordering keys for a set of keys — the
 //     data behind the LLM's getNeighbours tool and the player-frontier prompt
 //     field (v0.21, #16 P2)
+//   - centroidOf(): a region key's precomputed anchor point ({ lat, lon, spread })
+//     — the data behind LLM-placed map markers (v0.27, #44)
+//   - geoOf(): a region key's area (km²) + population (from region-geo.json)
+//     — the weighting source for the per-region stats model (v0.28, #46)
 //
 // Deliberately turf-free: it reads the JSON files with plain JSON.parse and
 // never imports @turf/@types/geojson (importing one pulls @types/geojson into
@@ -39,12 +45,17 @@ interface RegionData {
  validKeys: Set<string>;
  /** region key -> bordering region keys (from public/region-adjacency.json). */
  adjacency: Record<string, string[]>;
+  /** region key -> anchor point (from public/region-centroids.json). */
+  centroids: Record<string, { lat: number; lon: number; spread: number }>;
+  /** region key -> { area (km²), population } (from public/region-geo.json, v0.28 #46). */
+  geo: Record<string, { area: number; population: number }>;
 }

 let data: RegionData | null = null;

 /**
- * Load (or reload) the region-key manifest, geo, and adjacency. Idempotent.
+ * Load (or reload) the region-key manifest, geo, adjacency, and centroids.
+ * Idempotent.
 * The files are served to the client from `public/` in dev (Vite serves it
 * directly) and from `dist/` in prod (Vite copies `public/*` → `dist/` at build
 * and the Docker image keeps only `dist/`), so probe `public/` then `dist/`
@@ -52,7 +63,10 @@ let data: RegionData | null = null;
 * key manifest + geo. The adjacency manifest is OPTIONAL: when it is missing
 * or broken, `adjacency` stays empty and `neighboursOf`/`hasAdjacency` simply
 * report "no adjacency" (the LLM tool and the frontier prompt field switch
- * off; everything else keeps working). Returns true when the core pair loaded
+ * off; everything else keeps working). The centroid manifest is likewise
+ * OPTIONAL (v0.27, #44): when missing or broken, `centroids` stays empty and
+ * `centroidOf`/`hasCentroids` report "no centroids" (new map markers can't be
+ * placed, but everything else keeps working). Returns true when the core pair loaded
 * cleanly; a missing/broken pair 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).
@@ -61,6 +75,8 @@ export function loadRegions(root: string): boolean {
  const keyFile = 'region-keys.json';
  const geoFile = 'regions.geo.json';
  const adjacencyFile = 'region-adjacency.json';
+  const centroidsFile = 'region-centroids.json';
+  const regionGeoFile = 'region-geo.json';
  const base = [
    path.join(root, 'public'), // dev: Vite serves public/ at /
    path.join(root, 'dist'), // prod: Vite copies public/* -> dist/ (== clientDir)
@@ -74,13 +90,13 @@ export function loadRegions(root: string): boolean {
  const geoPath = path.join(base, geoFile);
  try {
    const idToKey = JSON.parse(readFileSync(keyPath, 'utf8')) as Record<string, string>;
-    const geo = JSON.parse(readFileSync(geoPath, 'utf8')) as {
+    const geoJson = 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 ?? []) {
+    for (const f of geoJson.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
@@ -105,7 +121,71 @@ export function loadRegions(root: string): boolean {
      }
    }

-    data = { idToKey, keyToInfo, keysByCountry, validKeys, adjacency };
+    // Centroids are optional too (v0.27, #44): a missing/broken file means
+    // "no centroid data" — new markers can't be placed (their adds are
+    // dropped), but everything else keeps working.
+    let centroids: Record<string, { lat: number; lon: number; spread: number }> = {};
+    const centroidsPath = path.join(base, centroidsFile);
+    if (existsSync(centroidsPath)) {
+      try {
+        const raw = JSON.parse(readFileSync(centroidsPath, 'utf8')) as Record<
+          string,
+          { lat?: unknown; lon?: unknown; spread?: unknown }
+        >;
+        // Keep only well-formed entries; a corrupt file degrades to "none".
+        for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(raw)) {
+          if (
+            v &&
+            typeof v.lat === 'number' &&
+            typeof v.lon === 'number' &&
+            typeof v.spread === 'number' &&
+            Number.isFinite(v.lat) &&
+            Number.isFinite(v.lon) &&
+            Number.isFinite(v.spread)
+          ) {
+            centroids[k] = { lat: v.lat, lon: v.lon, spread: v.spread };
+          }
+        }
+      } catch (err) {
+        console.error('[regions] failed to load region-centroids.json, continuing without it', err);
+        centroids = {};
+      }
+    }
+
+    // The region-geo manifest (v0.28, #46): area (km²) + population per region
+    // key — the weighting source for the per-region stats model. OPTIONAL like
+    // the others: a missing/broken file means "no geo data", and weighting
+    // degrades to uniform (every region weight 1) while everything else keeps
+    // working.
+    let geo: Record<string, { area: number; population: number }> = {};
+    const geoDataPath = path.join(base, regionGeoFile);
+    if (existsSync(geoDataPath)) {
+      try {
+        const raw = JSON.parse(readFileSync(geoDataPath, 'utf8')) as Record<
+          string,
+          { area?: unknown; population?: unknown }
+        >;
+        // Keep only well-formed entries; a corrupt file degrades to "none".
+        for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(raw)) {
+          if (
+            v &&
+            typeof v.area === 'number' &&
+            Number.isFinite(v.area) &&
+            v.area >= 0 &&
+            typeof v.population === 'number' &&
+            Number.isFinite(v.population) &&
+            v.population >= 0
+          ) {
+            geo[k] = { area: v.area, population: v.population };
+          }
+        }
+      } catch (err) {
+        console.error('[regions] failed to load region-geo.json, continuing without it', err);
+        geo = {};
+      }
+    }
+
+    data = { idToKey, keyToInfo, keysByCountry, validKeys, adjacency, centroids, geo };
    return validKeys.size > 0;
  } catch (err) {
    console.error('[regions] failed to load region data', err);
@@ -189,6 +269,47 @@ export function hasAdjacency(): boolean {
  return data !== null && Object.keys(data.adjacency).length > 0;
 }

+/**
+ * True when the region-centroid manifest loaded with at least one entry
+ * (v0.27, #44). The server's jump route uses this to decide whether to hand
+ * the engine a centroid resolver (which lets a turn place new map markers)
+ * or skip marker placement (existing markers are still maintained).
+ */
+export function hasCentroids(): boolean {
+  return data !== null && Object.keys(data.centroids).length > 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * True when the region-geo manifest loaded with at least one entry (v0.28,
+ * #46). The server's jump route uses this to decide whether to hand the
+ * engine a geo resolver (which weights the per-region stats derivation by
+ * area×population) or fall back to a uniform (unweighted) median.
+ */
+export function hasGeo(): boolean {
+  return data !== null && Object.keys(data.geo).length > 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The precomputed anchor point for a region key: the centroid of its
+ * largest-area part, plus a `spread` (≈ 0.1 × that part's smallest bbox
+ * dimension, in degrees) the engine scatters markers within
+ * ±(spread/2) of the centroid. `undefined` for an unknown key or when no
+ * centroid data is loaded (v0.27, #44).
+ */
+export function centroidOf(key: string): { lat: number; lon: number; spread: number } | undefined {
+  return data?.centroids[key];
+}
+
+/**
+ * The precomputed area (km²) + population for a region key (v0.28, #46) — the
+ * weighting source for the per-region stats model. `undefined` for an unknown
+ * key or when no geo data is loaded (the derivation then falls back to a
+ * uniform weight of 1 for that region).
+ */
+export function geoOf(key: string): { area: number; population: number } | undefined {
+  return data?.geo[key];
+}
+
 /**
 * The union of the region keys that share a land border with any of the given
 * keys — deduplicated, the queried keys themselves excluded, and sorted for
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ export interface StubPayload {
   * is covered by unit tests against applyTurnResult, not by the stub.
   */
  unowned?: string[];
+  /**
+   * (v0.27, #44) Current map markers (`{ id, type, name, regionKey, owner }`),
+   * emitted by the engine's user prompt. The stub ignores this field — it
+   * never places or removes a marker (see deterministicTurn), so the marker
+   * path is covered by unit tests against applyTurnResult, not by the stub.
+   */
+  markers?: Array<{ id: string; type: string; name: string; regionKey: string; owner: string | null }>;
 }

 function truncate(s: string, n: number): string {
@@ -61,6 +68,10 @@ function truncate(s: string, n: number): string {
 * (v0.23, #16 P4a) The stub likewise NEVER proposes nation-management ops (it
 * always returns `nationOps: []`) — the propose→confirm/reject flow is
 * covered by unit tests only, keeping the e2e assertions untouched.
+ *
+ * (v0.27, #44) The stub likewise NEVER places or removes a map marker (it
+ * always returns `markers: { add: [], remove: [] }`) — the marker path is
+ * covered by unit tests only, keeping the e2e assertions untouched.
 */
 export function deterministicTurn(p: StubPayload): TurnResult {
  const state = p.state;
@@ -126,6 +137,7 @@ export function deterministicTurn(p: StubPayload): TurnResult {
    territoryChanges,
    unowned: [], // the stub never creates no man's land (see doc comment)
    nationOps: [], // the stub never proposes nation ops (see doc comment)
+    markers: { add: [], remove: [] }, // the stub never touches markers (see doc comment)
  };
 }

@@ -6,10 +6,14 @@ import type {
  EventOutcome,
  EventType,
  GameState,
+  MarkerType,
  Nation,
+  NationStats,
  RelationStatus,
+  RegionStats,
  StatKey,
 } from './types';
+import { MARKER_TYPES, STAT_KEYS } from './types';

 /** A numeric change to one of a nation's 0–100 stats. */
 export type StateChange =
@@ -114,6 +118,100 @@ export interface TurnEventSpec {
  outcome: EventOutcome;
 }

+// --- Map markers (v0.27, #44) -------------------------------------------------
+//
+// The LLM places named point markers (cities, factories, armies, ports,
+// capitals, fleets, rocket launch sites, gatherings) anchored to a region
+// key. It never sees or sets coordinates: the engine derives the position
+// from the region's precomputed centroid (public/region-centroids.json) plus a
+// small deterministic offset, and it recomputes each marker's owner from the
+// region's current owner on every turn (a released region → null).
+//
+// The marker id is a STABLE, deterministic 4-letter code (FNV-1a 32-bit →
+// base 26, the same scheme as the region keys' 4-char suffix) derived from
+// (type, name, regionKey) — so re-adding an identical marker is idempotent
+// (same id, skipped) and removing by id is unambiguous.
+
+/** The spec the LLM emits to place a marker: type, name and the region it sits in. */
+export interface MarkerSpec {
+  type: MarkerType;
+  name: string;
+  regionKey: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * One existing marker as the user prompt presents it to the model (v0.27,
+ * #44): its stable `id` (the model may echo it in `TurnResult.markers.remove`),
+ * type, name, region key, and the id of the nation currently owning its
+ * region (`null` when the region is unowned / no man's land).
+ */
+export interface MarkerInfo {
+  id: string;
+  type: MarkerType;
+  name: string;
+  regionKey: string;
+  owner: string | null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The per-type presentation of a marker: its display label (tooltip /
+ * dossier), its color, and its glyph character (a symbol-layer text label —
+ * a small, font-safe character in front of the name). Pure + shared so the
+ * client's marker layer and any server-side consumers agree on the look.
+ */
+export const MARKER_TYPE_INFO: Record<MarkerType, { label: string; color: string; glyph: string }> = {
+  city: { label: 'City', color: '#cbd5e1', glyph: '●' },
+  factory: { label: 'Factory', color: '#fb923c', glyph: '■' },
+  army: { label: 'Army', color: '#ef4444', glyph: '▲' },
+  port: { label: 'Port', color: '#38bdf8', glyph: '◆' },
+  capital: { label: 'Capital', color: '#fbbf24', glyph: '★' },
+  fleet: { label: 'Fleet', color: '#22d3ee', glyph: '◗' },
+  rocket: { label: 'Rocket site', color: '#a78bfa', glyph: '↥' },
+  gathering: { label: 'Gathering', color: '#4ade80', glyph: '◉' },
+};
+
+/** Hard cap on a game's total markers (new adds beyond the cap are dropped, v0.27 #44). */
+export const MAX_MARKERS = 400;
+
+/**
+ * FNV-1a 32-bit — the same tiny, stable, pure string hash the region keys use
+ * (see scripts/build-region-keys.mjs). Exported so the engine can derive
+ * deterministic per-axis jitter fractions from it (marker placement, v0.27 #44).
+ */
+export function fnv1a32(str: string): number {
+  let h = 0x811c9dc5;
+  for (let i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
+    h ^= str.charCodeAt(i);
+    h = Math.imul(h, 0x01000193) >>> 0;
+  }
+  return h >>> 0;
+}
+
+/** Spread a 32-bit hash across four lowercase letters (base 26 per byte). */
+function code4(h: number): string {
+  let out = '';
+  for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
+    out += String.fromCharCode(97 + (((h >>> (i * 8)) & 0xff) % 26));
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The stable id for a marker: 4 base-26 lowercase chars from the FNV-1a hash
+ * of `(type, name, regionKey)` (NUL-separated so no field boundary is
+ * ambiguous). Deterministic across runs and platforms (pure string math), so
+ * the same (type, name, regionKey) always maps to the same id — re-adding is
+ * idempotent, removing by id is unambiguous.
+ */
+export function markerId(type: MarkerType, name: string, regionKey: string): string {
+  return code4(fnv1a32(`${type}\u0000${name}\u0000${regionKey}`));
+}
+
+/** True when `t` is one of the eight known marker types (v0.27, #44). */
+export function isMarkerType(t: unknown): t is MarkerType {
+  return typeof t === 'string' && (MARKER_TYPES as string[]).includes(t);
+}
+
 /** The exact JSON object the world-simulator LLM must return for a turn. */
 export interface TurnResult {
  date: string;
@@ -141,6 +239,16 @@ export interface TurnResult {
   * survivor. Empty on turns where the model proposes none.
   */
  nationOps: NationOp[];
+  /**
+   * (v0.27, #44) Map-marker ops this turn. `add` places new named markers
+   * (the engine positions each at its region's centroid + a small
+   * deterministic offset, sets the owner to the region's post-turn owner,
+   * derives the stable id, and drops unknown types/region keys, duplicates,
+   * and adds beyond MAX_MARKERS); `remove` drops markers by their stable id
+   * (a no-op for an id that is not present). Both required, `[]` on turns
+   * with no marker activity.
+   */
+  markers: { add: MarkerSpec[]; remove: string[] };
 }

 /** Per-region map payload: region key -> owning nation + its stable color. */
@@ -409,3 +517,137 @@ export function nationForPrompt(n: Nation) {
    relations: n.relations,
  };
 }
+
+// --- Per-region stats (v0.28, #46) ------------------------------------------
+//
+// A nation's 0–100 `NationStats` are no longer stored as independent per-nation
+// values: they are DERIVED as the area×population-weighted median of the stats
+// of the regions the nation owns (`GameState.regionStats`, keyed by region key).
+// These pure helpers implement that derivation, the fresh-game / legacy seeding,
+// and the one-time migration of a pre-v0.28 row. They have no runtime deps.
+
+/**
+ * The weighted median of `values` with per-value `weights` (paired by index).
+ * The pairs are sorted by value ascending and the result is the value at the
+ * first point where the cumulative weight reaches at least half the total
+ * weight. An empty input, or a total weight of zero, yields 0. Non-finite or
+ * non-positive weights are treated as 0 (excluded from the median).
+ * Translation-invariant: adding a constant to every value shifts the result by
+ * that constant — so the median of a set of **identical** values is that value
+ * (the invariant the equal-value seeding and legacy migration rely on).
+ * Pure + shared.
+ */
+export function weightedMedian(values: number[], weights: number[]): number {
+  if (values.length === 0) return 0;
+  const pairs = values
+    .map((v, i) => {
+      const w =
+        typeof weights[i] === 'number' && Number.isFinite(weights[i]) && weights[i] > 0
+          ? weights[i]
+          : 0;
+      return { v: Number.isFinite(v) ? v : 0, w };
+    })
+    .filter((p) => p.w > 0);
+  if (pairs.length === 0) return 0;
+  const total = pairs.reduce((s, p) => s + p.w, 0);
+  if (total <= 0) return 0;
+  pairs.sort((a, b) => a.v - b.v);
+  let cum = 0;
+  for (const p of pairs) {
+    cum += p.w;
+    if (cum >= total / 2) return p.v;
+  }
+  return pairs[pairs.length - 1]!.v;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Derive a nation's aggregate {@link NationStats} from the stats of the regions
+ * it owns: each of the four stats is the **area×population-weighted median**
+ * (see {@link weightedMedian}) over the nation's owned region keys. A region's
+ * weight is `(area > 0 ? area : 1) × (population > 0 ? population : 1)` — both
+ * factors fall back to 1 when the region has no geo entry (`geoOf` returns
+ * `undefined` for it), so every region carries weight ≥ 1 and a missing geo
+ * degrades gracefully to a uniform (unweighted) median. A region key with no
+ * `regionStats` entry is skipped. Returns the zero stats when the nation owns
+ * no region with a stats entry (the caller's 0-region guard keeps the nation's
+ * directly-maintained `n.stats` in that case). Pure + shared.
+ */
+export function deriveNationStats(
+  regionKeys: string[],
+  regionStats: Record<string, RegionStats>,
+  geoOf?: (key: string) => { area: number; population: number } | undefined,
+): NationStats {
+  const zero: NationStats = { military: 0, economy: 0, stability: 0, population: 0 };
+  const byStat: Record<StatKey, number[]> = {
+    military: [],
+    economy: [],
+    stability: [],
+    population: [],
+  };
+  const weights: number[] = [];
+  for (const key of regionKeys) {
+    const rs = regionStats[key];
+    if (!rs) continue; // a key with no per-region stats is skipped
+    const g = geoOf?.(key);
+    const a = g && g.area > 0 ? g.area : 1;
+    const p = g && g.population > 0 ? g.population : 1;
+    weights.push(a * p);
+    for (const k of STAT_KEYS) byStat[k].push(rs[k]);
+  }
+  if (weights.length === 0) return zero;
+  const out: NationStats = { military: 0, economy: 0, stability: 0, population: 0 };
+  for (const k of STAT_KEYS) out[k] = clampStat(weightedMedian(byStat[k], weights));
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Seed a per-region stats table from a set of nations (used both at game
+ * creation and by the legacy migration): every owned region key gets a **copy**
+ * of its owner's current `NationStats`, so a fresh nation's regions all start
+ * identical (the weighted median of identical values is that value, so the
+ * derived `n.stats` equals the seeded one). A region with two or more owners
+ * (corrupt) is seeded by the first owner encountered; a key owned by nobody gets
+ * no entry. Pure + shared.
+ */
+export function seedRegionStats(nations: Record<string, Nation>): Record<string, RegionStats> {
+  const out: Record<string, RegionStats> = {};
+  for (const n of Object.values(nations)) {
+    for (const key of n.territory) {
+      if (!(key in out)) out[key] = { ...n.stats }; // first owner wins (sole ownership holds normally)
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * (v0.28, #46) One-time migration of a **legacy** (pre-v0.28) `GameState` row
+ * into the per-region-stats model, returning a new state (the input is never
+ * mutated):
+ *  - a row that already has `regionStats` (a v0.28+ save) is returned
+ *    **UNCHANGED** — its `Nation.stats` are already the correct derived medians
+ *    and must not be recomputed on load (that would drift them);
+ *  - a legacy row (`regionStats` absent at runtime) seeds every owned region key
+ *    with a copy of its owner's current stats (so each nation's regions start
+ *    identical), then recomputes each nation's stats as the weighted median of
+ *    its regions (a 0-region nation keeps its stats). Without `geoOf` the
+ *    weighting is uniform, which is weight-invariant for the identical-value
+ *    case, so the recomputed stats equal the originals — the migration is a
+ *    no-op on the visible numbers and only materializes the (previously
+ *    implicit) per-region values. Never throws.
+ */
+export function migrateRegionStats(
+  state: GameState,
+  geoOf?: (key: string) => { area: number; population: number } | undefined,
+): GameState {
+  // A v0.28+ row already carries per-region stats: leave it exactly as saved.
+  if (state.regionStats !== undefined) return state;
+  // Legacy row: materialize per-region stats from each nation's (uniform) stats.
+  const next: GameState = { ...state, regionStats: seedRegionStats(state.nations) };
+  for (const n of Object.values(next.nations)) {
+    if (n.territory.length === 0) continue; // 0-region guard: keep its stats
+    if (n.territory.some((k) => next.regionStats[k])) {
+      n.stats = deriveNationStats(n.territory, next.regionStats, geoOf);
+    }
+  }
+  return next;
+}
@@ -13,6 +13,19 @@ export interface NationStats {
  population: number;
 }

+/**
+ * (v0.28, #46) The 0–100 status indices of a **single region**. Per-region stats
+ * are the unit of record: a nation's aggregate {@link NationStats} is derived as
+ * the area×population-weighted median of the stats of the regions it owns (see
+ * `protocol.deriveNationStats`). Every value is clamped to 0–100 by the engine.
+ */
+export interface RegionStats {
+  military: number;
+  economy: number;
+  stability: number;
+  population: number;
+}
+
 export const STAT_KEYS = ['military', 'economy', 'stability', 'population'] as const;
 export type StatKey = (typeof STAT_KEYS)[number];

@@ -68,6 +81,60 @@ export const EVENT_TYPES: EventType[] = [

 export type EventOutcome = 'success' | 'failure' | 'partial' | 'neutral';

+// --- Map markers (v0.27, #44) -------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Named point markers the LLM can place on the map (cities, factories, armies,
+// ports, capitals, fleets, rocket launch sites, political/social gatherings).
+// A marker is anchored to a **region key** (see `public/region-keys.json`): the
+// engine positions it at that region's precomputed centroid (with a small
+// deterministic offset) and its `ownerNationId` follows the region's current
+// owner (recomputed on every turn; `null` when the region is unowned / no
+// man's land). See protocol.ts for the LLM-facing `TurnResult.markers`
+// contract and the `markerId` derivation.
+
+/** The eight marker categories the model may place (v0.27, #44). */
+export type MarkerType =
+  | 'city'
+  | 'factory'
+  | 'army'
+  | 'port'
+  | 'capital'
+  | 'fleet'
+  | 'rocket'
+  | 'gathering';
+
+/** All marker types, in canonical order (used by the LLM contract + map layer). */
+export const MARKER_TYPES: MarkerType[] = [
+  'city',
+  'factory',
+  'army',
+  'port',
+  'capital',
+  'fleet',
+  'rocket',
+  'gathering',
+];
+
+/**
+ * A named point marker on the map (v0.27, #44). `id` is a stable,
+ * deterministic 4-character code derived from `type + name + regionKey`
+ * (see protocol.markerId) — re-adding the same marker is idempotent and
+ * removing by id is unambiguous. `lat`/`lon` are filled in by the engine from
+ * the region's centroid manifest (never by the model); `ownerNationId` is the
+ * marker's region's current owner (`null` when unowned) and is recomputed by
+ * the engine on every committed turn, so a marker always follows its region.
+ */
+export interface MapMarker {
+  id: string;
+  type: MarkerType;
+  name: string;
+  regionKey: string;
+  lat: number;
+  lon: number;
+  ownerNationId: string | null;
+  placedTurn: number;
+}
+
 /** A narrative event the simulation emitted on some turn. */
 export interface EventEntry {
  id: string;
@@ -153,6 +220,29 @@ export interface GameState {
   * runtime dependencies.)
   */
  pendingNationOps: NationOp[];
+  /**
+   * (v0.27, #44) Named point markers on the map: the LLM places them (via a
+   * turn's `markers.add`) and removes them (`markers.remove`, by id). The
+   * engine positions each at its region's centroid (deterministic small
+   * offset) and recomputes `ownerNationId` from the region's current owner on
+   * EVERY committed turn (a released region → `null`). Always `[]` on a fresh
+   * game; rows saved before v0.27 load with this defaulted to `[]` (see
+   * server/db.ts) — additive, no data wipe. Capped at protocol.MAX_MARKERS.
+   */
+  markers: MapMarker[];
+  /**
+   * (v0.28, #46) Per-region stats, keyed by **region key** (see
+   * `public/region-keys.json`): each owned region carries its own four 0–100
+   * stats, and a nation's aggregate `Nation.stats` is the area×population-
+   * weighted median of the regions it owns (see `protocol.deriveNationStats`).
+   * A region that ends a turn **unowned** (released to no man's land) has NO
+   * entry, and a preset-unassigned region (never owned) has none until first
+   * claimed (re-claiming re-inits it to the gainer's stats). Always present on a
+   * fresh game (every owned region seeded with its owner's initial stats); a
+   * legacy SQLite row without the field is migrated at load (see server/db.ts)
+   * — additive, no data wipe.
+   */
+  regionStats: Record<string, RegionStats>;
 }

 /**
@@ -706,6 +706,7 @@ function GameScreen({
        nations={game.nations}
        presetId={game.presetId}
        unowned={game.unowned ?? []}
+        markers={game.markers ?? []}
        onFocusNation={focusNation}
      />

@@ -10,12 +10,14 @@ import workerUrl from 'maplibre-gl/dist/maplibre-gl-worker.mjs?url';
 maplibregl.setWorkerUrl(workerUrl);
 import {
  mapFeatureOwner,
+  MARKER_TYPE_INFO,
+  nationColor,
  regionFillStyle,
  unownedTooltipLabel,
  type RegionMap,
  type RegionOwner,
 } from '@shared/protocol';
-import type { Nation } from '@shared/types';
+import { MARKER_TYPES, type MapMarker, type Nation } from '@shared/types';
 import { cn } from '@/lib/utils';
 import { idToKey } from '@/lib/regions';

@@ -45,8 +47,16 @@ type GeoSource = maplibregl.GeoJSONSource;
 // looked black, and `styledata` was gated on fetching a remote document. An
 // inline object loads instantly, so `isStyleLoaded()` / `styledata` fire
 // immediately and the choropleth is guaranteed to paint. (The OFM `ne2sr`
-// raster has no vector tiles, so no glyphs endpoint is needed — we don't add
-// label layers; the choropleth provides the borders.)
+// raster has no vector tiles, so the basemap itself needs no label layers —
+// the choropleth provides the borders.)
+//
+// No `glyphs` URL: the map needs no MapLibre *text* rendering. The basemap is
+// raster (its labels are baked into the PNG tiles), and the LLM-placed map
+// markers (v0.27, #44) are drawn as canvas-generated icon images in a symbol
+// layer — fully self-contained, so they render offline and deterministically
+// without depending on any external font/glyph endpoint (the OpenFreeMap
+// `fonts/` path is a dead nginx 404, and the basemap's apparent labels come
+// from the raster, not from glyphs).
 const NE2SR_TILES = ['https://tiles.openfreemap.org/natural_earth/ne2sr/{z}/{x}/{y}.png'];

 const INLINE_STYLE: maplibregl.StyleSpecification = {
@@ -88,6 +98,8 @@ const PLAYER_LINE = 'player-line';
 const FLASH_LINE = 'flash-line';
 const HOVER_FILL = 'hover-fill';
 const HOVER_LINE = 'hover-line';
+const MARKERS_SOURCE = 'markers';
+const MARKER_SYMBOL = 'markers-symbol';

 /** Sensible per-scenario initial camera: Europe for the WWII scenarios, wider for the global ones. */
 function cameraForPreset(presetId: string): { center: [number, number]; zoom: number } {
@@ -195,6 +207,186 @@ function featuresByRegionKeys(
  return { type: 'FeatureCollection', features: JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(features)) };
 }

+// --- Map markers (v0.27, #44) ------------------------------------------------
+//
+// The LLM places named point markers (cities, factories, armies, ports,
+// capitals, fleets, rocket sites, gatherings) anchored to a region key. The
+// engine positions each at its region's centroid (deterministic small offset)
+// and recomputes its owner from the region's current owner every turn. The
+// map renders them as a single top-most symbol layer: a per-type glyph
+// character in front of the name, per-type color, dark-theme halo.
+
+/**
+ * The GeoJSON behind the marker symbol layer: one Point per marker at
+ * `[lon, lat]`, carrying the stable id, type, name, its type's glyph, and the
+ * current owner's name + stable color (empty when the region is unowned).
+ * Pure; the caller passes the current marker list + nations record, so a
+ * renamed/removed owner is picked up on the next paint.
+ */
+function buildMarkersFC(markers: MapMarker[], nations: Record<string, Nation>): FeatureCollection {
+  const features = markers.map((m) => {
+    const owner = m.ownerNationId ? nations[m.ownerNationId] : undefined;
+    return {
+      type: 'Feature' as const,
+      geometry: { type: 'Point' as const, coordinates: [m.lon, m.lat] as [number, number] },
+      properties: {
+        id: m.id,
+        type: m.type,
+        name: m.name,
+        glyph: MARKER_TYPE_INFO[m.type]?.glyph ?? '',
+        owner: owner?.name ?? '',
+        ownerId: owner?.id ?? '',
+        ownerColor: owner ? nationColor(owner.id) : '',
+      },
+    };
+  });
+  return { type: 'FeatureCollection', features };
+}
+
+// Small canvas-path helpers for the marker icons (self-contained shapes — no
+// unicode/font dependency, so they render identically in any environment).
+function roundRectPath(
+  ctx: CanvasRenderingContext2D,
+  x: number,
+  y: number,
+  w: number,
+  h: number,
+  r: number,
+): void {
+  ctx.beginPath();
+  ctx.moveTo(x + r, y);
+  ctx.lineTo(x + w - r, y);
+  ctx.quadraticCurveTo(x + w, y, x + w, y + r);
+  ctx.lineTo(x + w, y + h - r);
+  ctx.quadraticCurveTo(x + w, y + h, x + w - r, y + h);
+  ctx.lineTo(x + r, y + h);
+  ctx.quadraticCurveTo(x, y + h, x, y + h - r);
+  ctx.lineTo(x, y + r);
+  ctx.quadraticCurveTo(x, y, x + r, y);
+  ctx.closePath();
+}
+
+function starPath(
+  ctx: CanvasRenderingContext2D,
+  cx: number,
+  cy: number,
+  spikes: number,
+  outer: number,
+  inner: number,
+): void {
+  let rot = (Math.PI / 2) * -1;
+  const step = Math.PI / spikes;
+  ctx.beginPath();
+  ctx.moveTo(cx + Math.cos(rot) * outer, cy + Math.sin(rot) * outer);
+  for (let i = 0; i < spikes; i++) {
+    rot += step;
+    ctx.lineTo(cx + Math.cos(rot) * inner, cy + Math.sin(rot) * inner);
+    rot += step;
+    ctx.lineTo(cx + Math.cos(rot) * outer, cy + Math.sin(rot) * outer);
+  }
+  ctx.closePath();
+}
+
+/**
+ * (v0.27, #44) Draw one marker-type icon into an offscreen canvas: a distinct
+ * shape per type, filled with the type's color from the shared
+ * `MARKER_TYPE_INFO` contract, with a dark outline for legibility on any
+ * choropleth fill. Added to the map as a named image and referenced by the
+ * symbol layer's `icon-image` — a real symbol layer, per-type color + form,
+ * with zero external font/glyph dependency.
+ */
+function drawMarkerIcon(type: MapMarker['type']): ImageData {
+  const S = 44;
+  const c = document.createElement('canvas');
+  c.width = S;
+  c.height = S;
+  const ctx = c.getContext('2d')!;
+  const cx = S / 2;
+  const cy = S / 2;
+  ctx.fillStyle = MARKER_TYPE_INFO[type]?.color ?? '#cbd5e1';
+  ctx.strokeStyle = '#0b1220';
+  ctx.lineWidth = 2.5;
+  ctx.lineJoin = 'round';
+  switch (type) {
+    case 'city':
+      ctx.beginPath();
+      ctx.arc(cx, cy, S * 0.3, 0, Math.PI * 2);
+      break;
+    case 'factory': {
+      const h = S * 0.5;
+      roundRectPath(ctx, cx - h / 2, cy - h / 2, h, h, 5);
+      break;
+    }
+    case 'army': {
+      const r = S * 0.34;
+      ctx.beginPath();
+      ctx.moveTo(cx, cy - r);
+      ctx.lineTo(cx + r, cy + r * 0.8);
+      ctx.lineTo(cx - r, cy + r * 0.8);
+      ctx.closePath();
+      break;
+    }
+    case 'port': {
+      const r = S * 0.36;
+      ctx.beginPath();
+      ctx.moveTo(cx, cy - r);
+      ctx.lineTo(cx + r, cy);
+      ctx.lineTo(cx, cy + r);
+      ctx.lineTo(cx - r, cy);
+      ctx.closePath();
+      break;
+    }
+    case 'capital':
+      starPath(ctx, cx, cy, 5, S * 0.36, S * 0.15);
+      break;
+    case 'fleet':
+    case 'gathering':
+      ctx.beginPath();
+      ctx.arc(cx, cy, S * 0.32, 0, Math.PI * 2);
+      break;
+    case 'rocket': {
+      const w = S * 0.14;
+      ctx.beginPath();
+      ctx.moveTo(cx, cy - S * 0.36);
+      ctx.lineTo(cx + S * 0.22, cy - S * 0.04);
+      ctx.lineTo(cx + w, cy - S * 0.04);
+      ctx.lineTo(cx + w, cy + S * 0.34);
+      ctx.lineTo(cx - w, cy + S * 0.34);
+      ctx.lineTo(cx - w, cy - S * 0.04);
+      ctx.lineTo(cx - S * 0.22, cy - S * 0.04);
+      ctx.closePath();
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+  ctx.fill();
+  ctx.stroke();
+  // fleet and gathering share a circle base; an inner mark tells them apart
+  // (fleet = a dark porthole dot, gathering = a white bullseye dot).
+  if (type === 'fleet' || type === 'gathering') {
+    ctx.beginPath();
+    ctx.arc(cx, cy, S * 0.13, 0, Math.PI * 2);
+    ctx.fillStyle = type === 'fleet' ? '#0b1220' : '#ffffff';
+    ctx.fill();
+  }
+  // Hand MapLibre the raw pixels (an untainted canvas, so getImageData is safe)
+  // rather than the canvas element — `addImage` accepts ImageData directly.
+  return ctx.getImageData(0, 0, S, S);
+}
+
+/** The hover tooltip for a marker: its type label + name, then the owner chip. */
+function markerTooltipHtml(
+  type: string,
+  name: string,
+  owner: string,
+  ownerColor: string,
+): string {
+  const label = MARKER_TYPE_INFO[type as MapMarker['type']]?.label ?? 'Marker';
+  const ownerLine = owner
+    ? `<div class="hm-popup-owner"><span class="hm-chip" style="background:${ownerColor}"></span>${esc(owner)}</div>`
+    : '<div class="hm-popup-sub">No owner</div>';
+  return `<div class="hm-popup"><div class="hm-popup-title">${esc(label)}: ${esc(name)}</div>${ownerLine}</div>`;
+}
+
 const esc = (s: string) =>
  s.replace(/[&<>"']/g, (c) => ({ '&': '&amp;', '<': '&lt;', '>': '&gt;', '"': '&quot;', "'": '&#39;' }[c] as string));

@@ -254,6 +446,13 @@ interface Props {
   * component doc for the full behavior.
   */
  onFocusNation?: (id: string, info?: { name?: string }) => void;
+  /**
+   * (v0.27, #44) The game's named map markers (`GameState.markers`): the LLM
+   * places/removes them over time, the engine positions each at its region's
+   * centroid and keeps its owner in sync with the region's owner. Rendered as
+   * a top-most symbol layer (per-type glyph + name, per-type color).
+   */
+  markers?: MapMarker[];
 }

 /**
@@ -286,6 +485,18 @@ interface Props {
 * a plain "No owner" sub-line. The colors/labels come from the shared
 * `regionFillStyle` / `unownedTooltipLabel` contract in @shared/protocol.
 *
+ * (v0.27, #44) LLM-placed **map markers** (`markers` prop = `GameState.markers`)
+ * render on a top-most symbol layer: each is its type's canvas-generated icon
+ * (a distinct shape, per-type color from the shared `MARKER_TYPE_INFO`
+ * contract, dark-outlined) at the engine-derived position (region centroid +
+ * small deterministic offset). The icons are drawn into named map images
+ * (`marker-<type>`), so there is no external font/glyph dependency and markers
+ * render offline and deterministically. Hovering a marker shows a tooltip
+ * (type label + name + owner chip); clicking one switches the dossier to the
+ * owning nation (no-op when the marker's region is unowned). The region
+ * hover/click handlers detect a marker under the cursor (MapLibre layer events
+ * have no propagation) and act on the marker's data.
+ *
 * Zoom and pan are driven directly by the user (MapLibre wheel/trackpad + drag)
 * — no floating control and no external API.
 */
@@ -297,6 +508,7 @@ export default function WorldMap({
  className,
  unowned,
  onFocusNation,
+  markers,
 }: Props) {
  const containerRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
  const mapRef = useRef<maplibregl.Map | null>(null);
@@ -311,12 +523,14 @@ export default function WorldMap({
  const presetRef = useRef(presetId);
  const unownedRef = useRef<Set<string>>(new Set(unowned ?? []));
  const onFocusNationRef = useRef(onFocusNation);
+  const markersRef = useRef<MapMarker[]>(markers ?? []);
  regionsRef.current = regions;
  nationsRef.current = nations;
  playerRef.current = playerNationId;
  presetRef.current = presetId;
  unownedRef.current = new Set(unowned ?? []);
  onFocusNationRef.current = onFocusNation;
+  markersRef.current = markers ?? [];

  // Diffing state for the transient territory-change flash (owned by this component
  // so a resync with identical data never re-flashes).
@@ -424,6 +638,39 @@ export default function WorldMap({
    const onHover = (e: maplibregl.MapLayerMouseEvent) => {
      const f = e.features?.[0];
      if (!f) return;
+      // (v0.27, #44) A marker rendered on top of this region wins the hover.
+      // The region polygon is always beneath a marker, so this FILL_LAYER
+      // delegate fires in both cases; if a marker icon is under the cursor,
+      // show the marker's tooltip (name + type + owner) instead of the
+      // region's. `e.point` is the cursor's pixel position, so querying the
+      // marker layer there tests the icon's (small) hit area, not the whole
+      // region.
+      const markerHits = map.queryRenderedFeatures(e.point, { layers: [MARKER_SYMBOL] });
+      if (markerHits.length > 0) {
+        const mp = (markerHits[0].properties ?? {}) as {
+          type?: string;
+          name?: string;
+          owner?: string;
+          ownerColor?: string;
+        };
+        hoverPopup
+          .setLngLat(e.lngLat)
+          .setHTML(
+            markerTooltipHtml(
+              typeof mp.type === 'string' ? mp.type : '',
+              typeof mp.name === 'string' ? mp.name : '',
+              typeof mp.owner === 'string' ? mp.owner : '',
+              typeof mp.ownerColor === 'string' ? mp.ownerColor : '',
+            ),
+          )
+          .addTo(map);
+        map.getCanvas().style.cursor = 'pointer';
+        // A marker has no region outline to highlight; clear the previous one
+        // (and reset lastHoverId so moving back onto a region re-triggers it).
+        lastHoverId = null;
+        (map.getSource(HOVER_SOURCE) as GeoSource | undefined)?.setData(emptyFC());
+        return;
+      }
      const p = f.properties as { name?: string; regionId?: string };
      const subId = typeof p?.regionId === 'string' ? p.regionId : '';
      if (subId && subId !== lastHoverId) {
@@ -466,6 +713,19 @@ export default function WorldMap({
    const onClick = (e: maplibregl.MapLayerMouseEvent) => {
      const f = e.features?.[0];
      if (!f) return;
+      // (v0.27, #44) A marker under the cursor: focus its owning nation
+      // (identical to its region's owner — the engine keeps a marker's owner in
+      // sync with the region) and carry the marker's name into the dossier.
+      const markerHits = map.queryRenderedFeatures(e.point, { layers: [MARKER_SYMBOL] });
+      if (markerHits.length > 0) {
+        const mp = (markerHits[0].properties ?? {}) as { ownerId?: string; name?: string };
+        const owner = typeof mp.ownerId === 'string' ? mp.ownerId : '';
+        if (owner) {
+          const info = typeof mp.name === 'string' ? { name: mp.name } : undefined;
+          onFocusNationRef.current?.(owner, info);
+        }
+        return;
+      }
      const region = mapFeatureOwner(regionsRef.current, f);
      if (!region?.ownerId) return;
      // Carry the clicked sub-region's name so the dossier can show which region
@@ -497,6 +757,9 @@ export default function WorldMap({
      if (!map.getSource(FLASH_SOURCE)) {
        map.addSource(FLASH_SOURCE, { type: 'geojson', data: emptyFC() });
      }
+      if (!map.getSource(MARKERS_SOURCE)) {
+        map.addSource(MARKERS_SOURCE, { type: 'geojson', data: emptyFC() });
+      }
    };

    // Stamp ownership + colors onto the regions source (no-op until both the
@@ -509,6 +772,26 @@ export default function WorldMap({
      src.setData(applyRegions(geo, regionsRef.current, playerRef.current, idKey, unownedRef.current));
    };

+    // Stamp the current markers onto the marker source (v0.27, #44).
+    const paintMarkers = () => {
+      const src = map.getSource(MARKERS_SOURCE) as GeoSource | undefined;
+      if (!src) return;
+      src.setData(buildMarkersFC(markersRef.current, nationsRef.current));
+    };
+
+    // Register the eight canvas-generated marker-type icon images (v0.27, #44).
+    // Images are cleared on a style (re)load, so this is (re)run from
+    // `ensureLayers` (which fires on every `styledata`). Self-contained — no
+    // external font/glyph endpoint — so markers render offline and
+    // deterministically.
+    const ensureMarkerImages = async () => {
+      for (const type of MARKER_TYPES) {
+        const id = `marker-${type}`;
+        if (map.getImage(id)) continue;
+        await map.addImage(id, drawMarkerIcon(type));
+      }
+    };
+
    const ensureLayers = async () => {
      if (cancelled) return;
      ensureSources();
@@ -528,6 +811,7 @@ export default function WorldMap({
      }
      if (cancelled) return;
      paintRegions();
+      paintMarkers();
      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.
@@ -554,8 +838,9 @@ export default function WorldMap({
      }
      // NOTE: layers are added in bottom→top order (each appends on top). The
      // stack is: fill, base borders, player border, territory-change flash,
-      // hover brighten, hover outline. Do not use a `beforeId` here — it throws
-      // if that layer does not exist yet on a fresh style load.
+      // hover brighten, hover outline, and (top-most) the LLM-placed map
+      // markers' symbol layer (v0.27, #44). Do not use a `beforeId` here — it
+      // throws if that layer does not exist yet on a fresh style load.
      if (!map.getLayer(PLAYER_LINE)) {
        map.addLayer({
          id: PLAYER_LINE,
@@ -589,6 +874,36 @@ export default function WorldMap({
          paint: { 'line-color': '#ffffff', 'line-width': 1.6, 'line-opacity': 0.9 },
        });
      }
+      // (v0.27, #44) The LLM-placed map markers: a top-most symbol layer.
+      // Each marker renders its type's canvas-generated icon (a distinct shape,
+      // per-type color from the shared MARKER_TYPE_INFO contract) with a dark
+      // outline for legibility on any choropleth fill. The icon images are
+      // self-contained (no external font/glyph endpoint), so markers render
+      // offline and deterministically. `icon-image` is `marker-<type>`, the
+      // named canvas images registered by `ensureMarkerImages` above.
+      await ensureMarkerImages();
+      if (!map.getLayer(MARKER_SYMBOL)) {
+        map.addLayer({
+          id: MARKER_SYMBOL,
+          type: 'symbol',
+          source: MARKERS_SOURCE,
+          layout: {
+            'icon-image': ['concat', 'marker-', ['get', 'type']],
+            'icon-size': 0.8,
+            'icon-allow-overlap': true,
+            'icon-ignore-placement': true,
+          },
+        });
+      }
+      // Marker interactions: the markers sit above the choropleth, but they
+      // deliberately share the region (FILL_LAYER) handlers registered below.
+      // MapLibre layer-scoped events are independent per-layer delegates (no
+      // propagation, no stopPropagation), so a marker-on-region would fire
+      // both a marker and a region handler. Instead the region handlers detect
+      // a marker under the cursor (see onHover/onClick) and act on the
+      // marker's data; clicking a marker focuses its owning nation via the
+      // same path as clicking its region (the marker's owner == its region's
+      // owner).
      map.off('mousemove', FILL_LAYER, onHover);
      map.off('mouseout', FILL_LAYER, onHoverOut);
      map.off('click', FILL_LAYER, onClick);
@@ -646,6 +961,19 @@ export default function WorldMap({
    }
  }, [regions, playerNationId, unowned]);

+  // (v0.27, #44) Repaint the marker symbol layer whenever the marker list
+  // changes (a turn placed/removed markers) or the nations record changes
+  // (a confirmed rename/merge changes an owner's display name). No-op until
+  // the map + source exist (the mount effect's ensureLayers applies the
+  // current data once the layer structure is in place).
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const map = mapRef.current;
+    if (!map) return;
+    const src = map.getSource(MARKERS_SOURCE) as GeoSource | undefined;
+    if (!src) return;
+    src.setData(buildMarkersFC(markers ?? [], nations));
+  }, [markers, nations]);
+
  // Full-viewport, edge-to-edge background layer. `position: fixed` is set
  // inline because MapLibre's own stylesheet sets `.maplibregl-map` to
  // `position: relative`, which would otherwise win over a Tailwind class.
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
kamilkrzywda	7fbc00ebbe	Merge pull request 'v0.28.0 (#46 ): per-region stats — area×population-weighted-median Nation.stats (PR 1 of 2)' (#47 ) from feat/46-region-stats into master CI / build + unit + e2e (push) Successful in 2m31s Details	2026-10-15 02:20:55 +02:00
kamilkrzywda	22805a3be6	v0.28.0 (#46 ): per-region stats — area×population-weighted-median Nation.stats (PR 1 of 2) CI / build + unit + e2e (pull_request) Successful in 2m34s Details	2026-10-15 00:17:19 +00:00
kamilkrzywda	327fffb789	Merge pull request 'v0.27.0 (#44 ): LLM-placed named map point markers' (#45 ) from feat/44-llm-map-pointers into master CI / build + unit + e2e (push) Successful in 2m41s Details	2026-10-15 00:40:52 +02:00
kamilkrzywda	a129c2ab81	v0.27.0 (#44 ): LLM-placed named map point markers CI / build + unit + e2e (pull_request) Successful in 2m36s Details - shared: 8 MarkerTypes + MARKER_TYPE_INFO (label/color/glyph); MapMarker; GameState.markers (required, [] at init); TurnResult.markers {add,remove}; MarkerSpec/MarkerInfo; FNV-1a 4-char markerId; MAX_MARKERS=400. - data: new public/region-centroids.json (1,800 anchors = largest-part centroid + spread ~0.1x min-bbox) built by new idempotent scripts/build-region-centroids.mjs. - server: regions.ts centroid loader (public/ then dist/); engine applyTurnResult marker ops (remove -> owner-recompute -> add, jitter, cap, never throws); prompt documents the contract; buildUserPrompt carries markers; stub marker-free. - client: WorldMap symbol layer rendered as canvas per-type icons (glyph CDN dead); hover tooltip shows name; click focuses owning nation. - tests: 168 -> 189 (centroids script, regions centroids, db legacy, engine markers).	2026-10-14 22:37:29 +00:00