This paper presents the Scale of Statism, a principled framework grounded in natural-moral law for understanding and ranking socioeconomic systems based on state intervention, coercion, and structural injustice. It evaluates six distinct systems from free-market capitalism to Marxist socialism through an ordinal scale (1-6) that categorizes the degree of voluntary cooperation versus state domination. Challenging conventional classifications, this analysis demonstrates that modern economies, including those commonly labeled “capitalist,” are statist systems operating at varying degrees of centralized coercion, repression, and control. Most are mixed economies with Western nations in the middle range of the Scale and developing regions largely under more autocratic systems. Systems become increasingly unjust, oppressive, and dysfunctional as they drift from free-market principles. Statist models consistently produce systemic repression, economic instability, and civilizational stagnation. For Africa and the world, the message is clear: sovereignty, dignity, and prosperity require moving from statist orthodoxy toward morally grounded systems of free enterprise, sound money, and respect for natural individual rights—core principles of the Africonomics vision.