diff --git a/plugin-designs/country-posters/countries-map.vue b/plugin-designs/country-posters/countries-map.vue
index d4bf4ce10..698bfd772 100644
--- a/plugin-designs/country-posters/countries-map.vue
+++ b/plugin-designs/country-posters/countries-map.vue
@@ -1332,7 +1332,14 @@ async function openPacket() {
     // separate document and an object URL created here would be revoked out from under it.
     const spec = defaultPosterSpec({ widthIn: 8.27, heightIn: 11.69, dpi: 150, orientation: 'portrait' })
     spec.slots.title = { ...spec.slots.title, text: legendTitle.value || 'Doxa Map' }
-    spec.slots.legend = { ...spec.slots.legend, rows: legend?.rows?.value || [] }
+    // ★ useLegendData returns `items`, not `rows`: `legend.rows` was undefined, so `|| []` handed the
+    // renderer an empty list and this page printed its live map with no legend. Child tiers flattened in,
+    // as research-map's poster does, so the printed legend names every band the map draws.
+    const legendRows = (legend?.items?.value || [])
+      .flatMap((it) => [it, ...(it.children || [])])
+      .map((r) => ({ label: r.label, color: r.color }))
+      .filter((r) => r.label)
+    spec.slots.legend = { ...spec.slots.legend, rows: legendRows }
     let mapSvg = ''
     try {
       const mapBlob = await useMapPoster(() => map.value).render(spec, 'png')