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by cbenz 3592 days ago
There is no "starter kit" to bootstrap a new country, but the project architecture is designed to clearly separate the core engine from the modeled country.

As this question has occured many times, we're certainly going to work on this topic and add a chapter to the documentation "Howto bootstrap a new country".

For now starting a new country consists of creating a new repository like openfisca-<country_name>, implement what we call entities (ways to group people together like households, families, etc.) and implement the formulas corresponding to the legislation taxes and/or benefits you want to compute.

This involves a lot of reverse-engineering work! If someone is interested, please contact us by opening a thread on the forum (https://forum.openfisca.fr/) or a GitHub issue (https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-core/issues)