World in 2011 editor, Daniel Franklin, looks ahead at a year that will delight numerologists, produce striking examples of the power of technology and other predictions in the 25th edition of The World In. (2)

The coming year will see the first stages of a widespread and largely welcome attack on the scope of the state in rich countries, predicts John Micklethwait (1)

• • A year of palindromes
• • Much less stimulating
• • Avoidable errors
• • Multinationimbles
• • Cooling the Earth
  • (1)
• • Another year, another billion
  • (1)
• • The filthy rich
  • (1)
• • Curl up with a good screen

Blocked at home, what can Barack Obama achieve abroad? (2)

• • Waiting for Congress
• • Trucking delicious
  • (1)
• • The year of hope 2.0
• • Grand old contest
• • Cheer up
• • Let it pour
• • Way to lead

Germany will increase its influence on the euro-zone economy (4)

• • The emerald no longer shines
  • (1)
• • A chancellor at bay
• • Buon compleanno!
  • (1)
• • Europe in the new global game
  • (2)
• • More pain, little gain
  • (2)
• • Unfancy dress
• • All the world's a stage
  • (2)
• • The trouble with Ottomania
  • (9)
• • The right club
• • Twenty years on
  • (3)
• • Farewell to eastern Europe
  • (20)
• • Pivotal Poland
  • (7)

Things will start to fall apart for Britain’s centre-right coalition government

• • What the census will show
• • Budget butchery
• • Over to you
  • (1)
• • A global agenda

Democracy is happily becoming routine (1)

• • Castro v Castro
• • Minority report
• • We, the bicentennials
  • (3)

China gets ready, cautiously, for new leaders

• • Kim-wee
• • A sea of troubles
• • Fair dinkum: the digital ambition
  • (1)
• • The fastest lap
  • (6)
• • How fast can they go?
  • (7)
• • More gloom for Afghanistan
  • (2)
• • Two-speed Australia
  • (2)
• • Haka time
  • (1)

Iraq’s continuing headache

• • Iran's president nuked by the economy?
  • (1)
• • What if...
  • (2)
• • Sunny sub-Sahara
• • Hello country number 193
  • (1)

The mood will be tense; get used to it

• • Future imperfect
• • Authorised anniversary
• • A history of the future in four objects
  • (5)
• • The slow farewell
• • The state of the state

We mark our 25th edition by peering 25 years ahead. In the first article in this section Jim O'Neill looks at the global economy of 2036

• • Jamie Oliver on what we will eat
• • New era, new god, says Paul Saffo
  • (3)
• • Don Tapscott describes an age of collaboration
• • John Battelle looks back to the future of technology
• • Design takes over, says Paola Antonelli
  • (1)
• • Doug Smith expects the weather forecast to improve
• • Nassim Taleb looks at what will break, and what won't
  • (10)
• • Mark Pincus on friends
  • (1)
• • Vineet Nayar envisages bottom-up leadership
• • Usain Bolt looks ahead to the 2036 Olympics

Businesses will learn to look beyond the BRICs

• • The new battle-plan for business
• • A very big HIT
  • (1)
• • Breakdown ahead
• • What China and Israel will teach the world
  • (6)
• • Births, deaths and resurrection
• • Let's make a deal
• • Research and develop
  • (1)
• • Metering the news
• • Words fail them

Watch out for currency confusion

• • A wall of worry
  • (1)
• • BRIC-a-brac
  • (1)
• • Howdy, world
• • China's balancing hand
  • (2)
• • Three kings
• • Let there be light
• • Wrong, INET?
• • Drive carefully
  • (1)