# Asiaref Country Brief

> Asiaref Country Brief is a paid API for AI agents from asiaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Returns a comprehensive bundle of government reference data for a single Asian country in one call, including policy rate, VAT/GST, CPI, tax rates, minimum wage, and public holidays — each with value, unit, effective date, and official source.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://asiaref.dev/v1/brief/:country?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/asiaref-country-brief-2fc135d6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_C3XC96-G61ryfDWDQHhzM

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability asiaref-country-brief-2fc135d6
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the full government reference brief for Thailand — I need the policy rate, VAT, CPI, tax rates, minimum wage and everything else in one shot, all with their official sources?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a comprehensive, multi-series government reference snapshot for a single Asian country in one API call rather than making multiple individual lookups for each rate type. It is ideal when you need official-source citations and confidence labels alongside the data — for compliance, investor reporting, or regulatory research. Prefer it over individual series endpoints (policy rate only, VAT only, etc.) when breadth across all reference categories matters more than depth in a single series.

## Known failure modes

- Country code not in covered Asia list — returns 404 or empty/error response
- Invalid or unsupported ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code — returns validation error
- Data temporarily stale — response includes stale flag on affected fields rather than failing outright
- Network or upstream source unavailability — may return 503
- Payment failure (x402) — call not executed if USDC payment is not completed

## How this service works

Asian country brief: every government reference series for one country in one call (policy rate, VAT/GST, CPI, income/corporate/withholding tax, minimum wage, holidays...), each with value, unit, effective date, last-confirmed date, official source and confidence label

## Output

A structured JSON object containing every covered government reference series for the requested country, including: central bank policy rate, VAT/GST rate (with breakdown), CPI, income tax, corporate tax, withholding tax, minimum wage, and public holidays. Each data point includes its numeric value, unit, effective date, last-confirmed date, the official government or gazette source URL, and a confidence label indicating data freshness and reliability.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {},
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/asiaref-country-brief-2fc135d6/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from asiaref.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/asiaref.dev/llms.txt)