# Dear Zimbabwe

- Link: https://perfectnations.org/dear-zimbabwe/
- Published: 2026-10-12T23:29:56-04:00
- Author: Preeti Sinha

[The Zimbabwe blueprint](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/zimbabwe/)

Perfect Nations™ · Letters to the NationsZimbabwe

# Dear Zimbabwe,

The ground beneath you has found a new price. In the first six months of 2026 you
exported $782 million of lithium products, up from $237 million a year earlier, 
as reported by the finance minister. You have required more of it to be processed
at home before it leaves. Most of the electricity you generate, 87.5 percent in 
2021, comes from renewable sources, from Kariba and the Zambezi.

The lithium earns. The clinic, the tap and the wage have not yet caught up. Health
service coverage stands at 59 on the World Health Organization index. In the last
national survey, in 2019, 38.3 percent of you lived below the poverty line. Two 
in three of you have basic drinking water and six in ten have electricity. In 2022,
more than half of city dwellers lived in slums.

> “The world needs your lithium for its batteries. Let it charge the Living Line
> at home first.”

Remittances from family abroad equal 8.5 percent of your economy, a sign of how 
much work your people find outside the country. The World Bank operations on record
are small health grants. The largest flows of capital into Zimbabwe today are not
development finance at all: they are the mining investments behind the lithium boom.

A mining boom is the moment to decide where its revenue goes. Each tonne exported
can carry a share pledged to water, care and homes, and each processing plant can
be sited to bring power and work to the towns around it. The world needs your lithium
for its batteries. Let it charge the Living Line at home first.

Yours in design,

**The Steward-General**

Perfect Nations · perfectnations.org

 [Read the Zimbabwe blueprint](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/zimbabwe/) 
[Write to the Stewards](https://perfectnations.org/contact/?nation=zimbabwe)

Sovereign Assets

## Every nation is richer than its balance sheet.

Water, ore, canopy, coastline, position, people. Assets by every definition finance
uses, and not one of them appears on a national account. We count them.

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   Water & Rivers_11 entries_    Ocean & Coast_14 entries_    Position & Institutions_32
entries_    Beneath the Ground_22 entries_    People_24 entries_    Sun, Wind & 
Power_10 entries_    Land & Harvest_13 entries_    Forest & Wild_10 entries_

Eight classes. One hundred and thirty-six entries, and counting.