SERIES: My Nation, My Identity

S4-S6 / Adult

Multiple Sessions

The Future of Your Nation: What Kind of Country Do You Want?

The final challenge asks you to move from analysing nationhood to designing it. What should a country protect, reward, remember and expect from its citizens — and what happens when those values conflict? You will use the whole series to create a future national vision grounded in evidence and tested against difficult scenarios. By […]

The Future of Your Nation: What Kind of Country Do You Want?

Your Mission

Design the kind of nation you would want to live in — then prove your values can survive real trade-offs.

This capstone brings together identity, history, migration, democracy and globalisation. You will define principles, design institutions, use evidence and stress-test the result.

The Shape of This Challenge

Discover

✏️ ️ Notice & question

Explore

️ Investigate & test

Create

✏️ Make & communicate

Reflect

️ Think & apply

Discover

Start with the values before the policy details.

Step 1

Choose the Principles Before the Policies

️ Values ranking · 8–10 mins

We are learning to identify the values that should guide a future nation before choosing specific policies.

Freedom, equality, security, prosperity, sustainability, belonging and participation can all matter, but sometimes they pull in different directions.

Your Task

Choose seven national values.
Rank your top five.
For each top value, write what it would change about a real public decision.
Identify one pair of values that could conflict.

I can define and justify the values guiding my future national vision.

→ This becomes the decision framework for the capstone.

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Step 2

Turn Values Into Institutions

✏️ System design · 10–12 mins

We are learning to translate broad values into practical national structures and rights.

A value only shapes a country when it affects laws, institutions, education, participation or public services.

Your Task

Create six system areas: rights, democracy, belonging/citizenship, education/culture, economy/opportunity, global relationships.
Add at least one design choice to each.
Connect each choice to one guiding value.
Circle one design choice where two values conflict.

I can turn abstract national values into concrete institutional choices.

→ This builds the system structure of your future nation.

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Explore

Use real-world evidence and test the design under pressure.

Step 3

Use Evidence From the Present

Choose your route · 12–15 mins

We are learning to use real-world evidence to test whether my national design choices are plausible.

A future vision should learn from what already works, fails or creates trade-offs in real countries.

Your Task

Choose three major design choices.
Complete one research route.
Find one real-world example or evidence point for each.
Change at least one design choice if the evidence challenges it.

⚡ Quick Track

Use one credible current example for each of three choices. Record the benefit, trade-off and whether you kept or changed the idea.

Dig Deeper

Compare two countries or policy models for one major issue. Explain which elements you would combine, reject or adapt.

I can use evidence to strengthen or revise a future national vision.

→ This stops the capstone becoming a list of unsupported ideals.

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Step 4

Stress-Test the Nation

️ Scenario cabinet · 10–12 mins

We are learning to test how principles and institutions behave under pressure.

Values become clearer when there is no perfect option.

Your Task

Test four scenarios: economic crisis, large migration increase, national security threat, major technology disruption.
For each, decide how your nation responds.
Identify which value is most at risk.
Change one rule or safeguard if the system fails your own principles.

I can apply national principles consistently during difficult trade-offs.

→ This creates the resilience section of the final vision.

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Create & Share

Create a future national charter that is ambitious, coherent and honest about trade-offs.

Step 5

Create Your Future Nation Charter

✏️ Synthesise · Create · 40–50 mins

We are learning to combine identity, history, belonging, democracy and globalisation into a coherent national vision.

Your future nation should not be perfect. It should be clear about its principles, institutions and unresolved trade-offs.

Your Task

State your five guiding values.
Cover all six system areas from Step 2.
Use at least three evidence-backed real-world examples.
Include one difficult trade-off and how the nation would manage it.
Choose one output below.

Future Nation Charter

2 pages · 550–700 words

⏱ 40–50 mins

Set out principles, rights, institutions, belonging, culture, economy and global relationships.

Nation 2045 Vision

6 slides · maximum 30 words per slide

⏱ 40–45 mins

Pitch values, citizenship, democracy, national story, global role and resilience.

Address to the Nation

2 minutes final runtime

⏱ 40–50 mins

Deliver a future national vision that explains both ambition and trade-offs.

I can create a coherent, evidence-based national vision with explicit trade-offs.

→ This is the capstone output for the My Nation, My Identity series.

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Step 6

Reflect, Apply, Look Forward

️ Final reflection · 8–10 mins

We are learning to evaluate how my understanding of national identity changed across the series.

The aim was not to arrive at one correct national identity, but to build a more informed way of thinking about belonging, history, citizenship and change.

Your Task

Answer the prompts.
Name one belief or assumption that became more complicated.
Choose one principle from your charter you think should remain non-negotiable.

Reflect

Which challenge changed your idea of national identity most?

Apply

What is one national debate you now feel better equipped to analyse?

Look Forward

What should a nation preserve even as technology, migration and globalisation continue to change it?

I can explain how evidence and competing perspectives shaped my final national vision.

→ Series complete: you now have a reasoned national vision rather than a slogan.

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TOOLKIT

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Use credible sources and distinguish evidence, interpretation and opinion. This series deals with identity and citizenship, so respectful disagreement matters.

Synthesis

Bring forward evidence and ideas from the earlier challenges rather than starting from slogans.

Policy

Turn values into choices about institutions, rights, belonging, education, culture or participation.

Create

Use a future-nation charter, 6-slide national vision or 2-minute address.

Educator / Parent Notes

Age, Stage and Prior Learning: Designed as the advanced S4–S6/adult capstone. The activity is about reasoned civic design, not steering learners toward a particular ideology.

Before You Start: Encourage learners to represent trade-offs fairly and avoid treating their preferred model as universally correct.

How to Open This: Ask: “If you could write five principles for a country but not choose any policies yet, what would they be?”

Scheduling: This is best over multiple sessions. Steps 1–2 establish principles/system; Steps 3–4 test them; Step 5 creates the capstone.

If a Pupil Gets Stuck: Provide six system headings and a three-value starter set. Use one real-world evidence example rather than three if needed.

For Fast Finishers: Ask learners to compare two future-nation models built from different value rankings or hold a mock constitutional convention.

Marking Guidance: Look for coherence between values and institutions, use of evidence, fair treatment of competing views, explicit trade-offs and willingness to revise under pressure.

The Future of Your Nation: What Kind of Country Do You Want?

The Future of Your Nation: What Kind of Country Do You Want?

Discover

Choose the Principles Before the Policies

Turn Values Into Institutions

Explore

Use Evidence From the Present

Stress-Test the Nation

Create & Share

Create Your Future Nation Charter

Reflect, Apply, Look Forward

Show What You Have Learned

Synthesis

Policy

Create

Show What You Have Learned

Synthesis

Policy

Create

TOOLKIT

Synthesis

Policy

Create

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