Facts

• Selected tier defaulted to Tier 1 from content/config/top-countries.json.
• The first country object in that tier resolved to france, western-europe, Tier 1, rank 1.
• Existing deterministic files for this week's France run were updated in place instead of duplicated.

Inference

• GitHub remains the source of truth for this publish run.
• Deterministic weekly paths are stable and suitable for repeat automation.

Uncertainty

• No publication uncertainty exists at the path-selection level.
• Any later changes should affect content, not the selected country or deterministic file paths.