Gambia

Gambia is a structurally exposed micro-state with nominal authority and no consequential external footprint.

Gambia scores below the state baseline because Russia's deceptive recruitment of former presidential security personnel, combined with the government's demonstrated inability to identify or disrupt active exploitation networks inside its own borders, signals meaningful erosion of sovereign control over labor and security domains, placing it closer to Afghanistan (36) than the Philippines (55).

With no proxy network, no structural instruments, and a coercive dependency on Russia carrying 72-point leverage over Gambia, external influence is negligible and confined to ECOWAS diplomatic participation.