# Canon – Country Leaders Lookup

> Canon – Country Leaders Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from veri.orbonomy.xyz, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns current political leaders for a given country via a fact-checking and academic research API.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://veri.orbonomy.xyz/api/leaders
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/canon-country-leaders-lookup-f2e4de19
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ADTKF1sVs8nE0KPzJgqK7

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 canon-country-leaders-lookup-f2e4de19 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Who are the current political leaders of France? Use Canon to look that up for me.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to quickly look up the current head of state or government for a specific country and want a fact-checked, structured result rather than relying on potentially stale training data.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid 'country' field returns an error
- Unknown or unrecognized country name may return empty or error response
- Payment failure (non-payment of 0.05 USDC) results in 402 response
- Network or server error returns 5xx

## How this service works

Fact-checking and academic research for AI agents. Verify claims, search papers, explore journals. USDC on Base.

## Output

A JSON object with a success boolean and, presumably, structured information about the current leaders of the specified country.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "country"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "country": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "success": {
   "type": "boolean"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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