diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/ar/gospelInternet.json b/library/i18n/locales/ar/gospelInternet.json
index 938de9ef6..4b35d3024 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/ar/gospelInternet.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/ar/gospelInternet.json
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "failed": "تعذّر تحميل جدول الجيران، لذلك لم يُرسم هذا المخطط.",
     "reached": "موصول إليها بالفعل، لذلك في المركز:",
     "unmatched": "غير موجودة في جدول الجيران أصلاً، لذلك لم تُرسم:",
-    "unplaced": "لم تُوجد أي صلة، لذلك لم تُوضع:"
+    "unplaced": "لم تُوجد أي صلة، لذلك لم تُوضع:",
+    "shown": "المجموعات البشرية على الحلقات:"
   },
   "centre": {
     "aria": "عرض",
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/de/gospelInternet.json b/library/i18n/locales/de/gospelInternet.json
index dcfbeb7bf..1a5ea84d5 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/de/gospelInternet.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/de/gospelInternet.json
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "failed": "Die Nachbartabelle konnte nicht geladen werden, daher wird dieses Diagramm nicht gezeichnet.",
     "reached": "Bereits erreicht, daher in der Mitte:",
     "unmatched": "Gar nicht in der Nachbartabelle, daher nicht gezeichnet:",
-    "unplaced": "Keine Beziehung gefunden, daher nicht eingeordnet:"
+    "unplaced": "Keine Beziehung gefunden, daher nicht eingeordnet:",
+    "shown": "Volksgruppen auf den Ringen:"
   },
   "centre": {
     "aria": "Anzeigen",
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/en/gospelInternet.json b/library/i18n/locales/en/gospelInternet.json
index 902b26685..f82524bb7 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/en/gospelInternet.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/en/gospelInternet.json
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "failed": "The neighbour table could not be loaded, so this chart is not drawn.",
     "reached": "Already reached, so at the centre:",
     "unmatched": "Not in the neighbour table at all, so not drawn:",
-    "unplaced": "No relation found, so not placed:"
+    "unplaced": "No relation found, so not placed:",
+    "shown": "People groups on the rings:"
   },
   "centre": {
     "aria": "Show",
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/es/gospelInternet.json b/library/i18n/locales/es/gospelInternet.json
index 82c711bcc..98ff0d354 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/es/gospelInternet.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/es/gospelInternet.json
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "failed": "No se pudo cargar la tabla de vecinos, así que este gráfico no se dibuja.",
     "reached": "Ya alcanzados, por eso en el centro:",
     "unmatched": "No están en la tabla de vecinos, así que no se dibujan:",
-    "unplaced": "No se encontró relación, así que no se sitúan:"
+    "unplaced": "No se encontró relación, así que no se sitúan:",
+    "shown": "Pueblos en los anillos:"
   },
   "centre": {
     "aria": "Mostrar",
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/fr/gospelInternet.json b/library/i18n/locales/fr/gospelInternet.json
index 21465cdb4..cd62b57da 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/fr/gospelInternet.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/fr/gospelInternet.json
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "failed": "La table des voisins n’a pas pu être chargée, ce graphique n’est donc pas tracé.",
     "reached": "Déjà atteints, donc au centre :",
     "unmatched": "Absents de la table des voisins, donc non tracés :",
-    "unplaced": "Aucune relation trouvée, donc non placés :"
+    "unplaced": "Aucune relation trouvée, donc non placés :",
+    "shown": "Peuples sur les anneaux :"
   },
   "centre": {
     "aria": "Afficher",
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/hi/gospelInternet.json b/library/i18n/locales/hi/gospelInternet.json
index 0e1c88e42..abaace730 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/hi/gospelInternet.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/hi/gospelInternet.json
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "failed": "पड़ोसी तालिका लोड नहीं हो सकी, इसलिए यह चित्र नहीं बनाया गया।",
     "reached": "पहले से पहुँचे हुए, इसलिए केंद्र में:",
     "unmatched": "पड़ोसी तालिका में हैं ही नहीं, इसलिए नहीं दिखाए गए:",
-    "unplaced": "कोई संबंध नहीं मिला, इसलिए स्थान नहीं दिया गया:"
+    "unplaced": "कोई संबंध नहीं मिला, इसलिए स्थान नहीं दिया गया:",
+    "shown": "वलयों पर जनसमूह:"
   },
   "centre": {
     "aria": "दिखाएँ",
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/it/gospelInternet.json b/library/i18n/locales/it/gospelInternet.json
index 2c38bfd2f..969049dfc 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/it/gospelInternet.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/it/gospelInternet.json
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "failed": "Non è stato possibile caricare la tabella dei vicini, quindi questo grafico non viene disegnato.",
     "reached": "Già raggiunti, quindi al centro:",
     "unmatched": "Non presenti nella tabella dei vicini, quindi non disegnati:",
-    "unplaced": "Nessuna relazione trovata, quindi non collocati:"
+    "unplaced": "Nessuna relazione trovata, quindi non collocati:",
+    "shown": "Popoli sugli anelli:"
   },
   "centre": {
     "aria": "Mostra",
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/pt/gospelInternet.json b/library/i18n/locales/pt/gospelInternet.json
index f859bf389..94bff76c5 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/pt/gospelInternet.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/pt/gospelInternet.json
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "failed": "Não foi possível carregar a tabela de vizinhos, por isso este gráfico não é desenhado.",
     "reached": "Já alcançados, por isso no centro:",
     "unmatched": "Não constam da tabela de vizinhos, por isso não são desenhados:",
-    "unplaced": "Nenhuma relação encontrada, por isso não posicionados:"
+    "unplaced": "Nenhuma relação encontrada, por isso não posicionados:",
+    "shown": "Povos nos anéis:"
   },
   "centre": {
     "aria": "Mostrar",
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/ro/gospelInternet.json b/library/i18n/locales/ro/gospelInternet.json
index e2a419cab..5a826f42e 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/ro/gospelInternet.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/ro/gospelInternet.json
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "failed": "Tabelul vecinilor nu a putut fi încărcat, așa că acest grafic nu este desenat.",
     "reached": "Deja atinse, așadar în centru:",
     "unmatched": "Nu se află deloc în tabelul vecinilor, așadar nu sunt desenate:",
-    "unplaced": "Nicio relație găsită, așadar neașezate:"
+    "unplaced": "Nicio relație găsită, așadar neașezate:",
+    "shown": "Grupuri etnice pe inele:"
   },
   "centre": {
     "aria": "Afișează",
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/ru/gospelInternet.json b/library/i18n/locales/ru/gospelInternet.json
index cf8e32eff..ea467c69a 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/ru/gospelInternet.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/ru/gospelInternet.json
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "failed": "Не удалось загрузить таблицу соседей, поэтому эта диаграмма не построена.",
     "reached": "Уже достигнуты, поэтому в центре:",
     "unmatched": "Вовсе отсутствуют в таблице соседей, поэтому не показаны:",
-    "unplaced": "Связь не найдена, поэтому не размещены:"
+    "unplaced": "Связь не найдена, поэтому не размещены:",
+    "shown": "Народы на кольцах:"
   },
   "centre": {
     "aria": "Показать",
diff --git a/library/i18n/locales/zh/gospelInternet.json b/library/i18n/locales/zh/gospelInternet.json
index b35970437..eb6046d62 100644
--- a/library/i18n/locales/zh/gospelInternet.json
+++ b/library/i18n/locales/zh/gospelInternet.json
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "failed": "无法载入邻族数据表，因此本图未绘制。",
     "reached": "已经得着，因此位于中心：",
     "unmatched": "根本不在邻族数据表中，因此未绘制：",
-    "unplaced": "未找到关联，因此未予定位："
+    "unplaced": "未找到关联，因此未予定位：",
+    "shown": "环上的族群："
   },
   "centre": {
     "aria": "显示",
diff --git a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSet.vue b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSet.vue
index 270544426..5fc60cb65 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSet.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSet.vue
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ const prepared = computed(() => {
 
 const layout = computed(() => layoutCenteredSet(prepared.value.groups, { innerR: 30, ringGap: 22 }))
 const tally = computed(() => ringTally(layout.value))
+// ★ COUNTED FROM THE LAYOUT, NOT FROM WHAT IS DRAWN. layout.placed is every group that HAS a ring,
+// which is a fact about the data; the number of pins actually rendered depends on the fill mode and,
+// in the dense mode, reads differently at different zooms. Captioning the drawn count would give a
+// total that changes as the reader zooms — true at every instant and misleading overall.
+const placedTotal = computed(() => layout.value.placed.length)
 const radii = computed(() => ringRadii({ innerR: 30, ringGap: 22 }))
 // The arrow carries its group's ring so the dimming can tell them apart. inwardArrow returns
 // geometry and the neighbour it names, not the ring — reading a.ring off it would have been
@@ -201,7 +206,14 @@ useShadowStyles(
                       :active-ring="activeRing" :panel="panelEl" @select="activeRing = $event"
                       />
       </div>
-      <p v-if="tally.centre || tally.unplaced || prepared.unmatched" class="gcs-warn">
+      <!-- ★ THE POSITIVE TOTAL COMES FIRST, and it is the TRUE one, not a count of what happens to be
+           drawn at this zoom. In the dense mode the same groups render as an arc of colour when zoomed
+           out and as separate pins when zoomed in; a caption derived from what is currently visible
+           would change as the reader moved, which is exactly the way a chart misleads without ever
+           being wrong. The three clauses after it account for every group NOT on a ring, so the
+           paragraph reads as one reconciliation rather than four unrelated numbers. -->
+      <p v-if="placedTotal || tally.centre || tally.unplaced || prepared.unmatched" class="gcs-warn">
+        <span v-if="placedTotal">{{ T('gospelInternet.centered.shown', 'People groups on the rings:') }} <b dir="ltr">{{ fmt(placedTotal) }}</b>. </span>
         <span v-if="tally.centre">{{ T('gospelInternet.centered.reached', 'Already reached, so at the centre:') }} <b dir="ltr">{{ fmt(tally.centre) }}</b>. </span>
         <span v-if="tally.unplaced">{{ T('gospelInternet.centered.unplaced', 'No relation found, so not placed:') }} <b dir="ltr">{{ fmt(tally.unplaced) }}</b>. </span>
         <span v-if="prepared.unmatched">{{ T('gospelInternet.centered.unmatched', 'Not in the neighbour table at all, so not drawn:') }} <b dir="ltr">{{ fmt(prepared.unmatched) }}</b>.</span>
diff --git a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSetMap.vue b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSetMap.vue
index 417aff354..8fb638528 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSetMap.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/gospel-internet/src/components/GiCenteredSetMap.vue
@@ -78,11 +78,24 @@ const layout = computed(() => layoutCenteredSet(props.groups, { innerR: INNER_R,
 // evenly by angle and deterministically by id, never inside a label's keep-out arc. Over-full rings
 // shrink their pins to a floor before anything is reported unplaced — a visible pin beats a missing
 // one — and whatever still cannot fit is reported rather than silently overlapped or dropped.
+// ★ THE ONE LINE DRIVER ROW 130 DECIDES. 'fit' (today) keeps every pin separable at the chart's own
+// scale and reports what will not fit; on the real default view that is 931 of 2,074 drawn and 1,143
+// reported. 'fill-all' draws all 2,074 and lets zoom do the separating — measured: 0 unplaced, every
+// pin inside its band, none under a label, ring 2 using 18 rows for its 658 groups.
+//
+// 'fit' is NOT a placeholder and must stay the default here until the ruling: it is the honest mode
+// for a page that cannot zoom, which is why the POSTER should keep it whatever the screen chooses.
+// The binding constraint is band DEPTH, not separation — sep can never fall below 2x the pin floor
+// (5.2), and an 18.5-unit band therefore holds at most 3 rows, so no minSep reaches ring 2's 658.
+// That is why this is a mode and not a tuned number.
+const SET_FILL_MODE = 'fit'          // ← row 130: change to 'fill-all' for the screen charts
+
 const banded = computed(() => bandFill(layout.value.placed, radii.value, {
   ringGap: RING_GAP,
   labels: ringLabels.value,
   // The chart's own units, not screen pixels: this module cannot know the zoom.
   minSep: 7,
+  mode: SET_FILL_MODE,
 }))
 
 const features = computed(() => centeredSetFeatures(