One country, read through the distance between what it says and what it does — across four pillars: Artificial Intelligence, Trust, Economy, Work. Original research; every figure carries a source, a date and a confidence tier.
Romanians place trust and hope outward and upward: in the European Union, in the institutions that stand outside politics, in AI as a personal tool, in their own optimism. The national, institutional and structural layer underneath does not keep pace — declared belief outruns revealed capacity. That distance is the index.
Each pillar pairs the strongest available attitude/belief indicator with its behavioural or delivery counterpart; the pillar gap reads declared belief against revealed capacity. Sources are institutional and dated — Eurobarometer, Eurostat, and comparable public datasets — and every figure carries a source reference, a date where applicable, and a confidence tier. Rates that are not population shares (inflation, GDP, headcounts) are reported directly and never folded into a 0–100 index, to avoid false precision. The overall RBI is the unweighted mean of the four pillar scores — a deliberate choice, not a weighting that hides a thesis. Every displayed value is re-derived by an independent verification pass before publication. The study is aggregate-only and GDPR-compliant by design: it describes a population, never a person.
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