An SMLC quiz

Where should you be living?

18 yes/no questions · about 90 seconds · nothing personal stored, no account

Some people fight their country every day without naming it: the way decisions get made, what self-promotion costs, whether rules or relationships open doors. That friction is measurable.

Answer eighteen yes-or-no’s and your position is compared against 34 societies, each placed on the dimensions of Sina’s Model of Layered Communication (SMLC) using Hofstede’s individualism data and Trompenaars’ rule-vs-relationship research. You get your top matches, and the one place you’d swim hardest against.

A lens, not a relocation order: a society’s position is its prevailing default, and every society contains its whole range of people.