Change Congressional Representation (Link to Suggestion)

Day 757, 15:12 • Published in India Japan • by Myung Kei

Me running to the admins


Quite recently I made a suggestion to the admins, the link to this is below, the context reads as follows:


&quot😉efined on the wiki [url="http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Division_of_Congress_Members"]here,[/url]the current method of distributing congress seats. All regions, regardless of population, have the same number of congressional seats available as all of the other regions in the eNation.

While fair in distributing representation for regions accurately, in nations such as eJapan, eIndia, ePeru, eSwitzerland, eDenmark, etc. this is creating a [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_borough"]"rotten borough effect"[/url](Real Life England encountered this problem) where regions start with the same number of congress seats as regions with high populations. This is causing corrupt buying and moving of votes from high populated regions to lower populated regions. This also empowers groups, such as PTO'ers, easy seats in congress elections. Wildcards are supposed to fix this issue, giving seats by VOTES in an election. However, congress seats should be determined by PEOPLE in the region.

Take my home nation: eJapan. eJapan's 12 regions have 3 congressmen representing each region, regardless of population. The capital and most populated region, Kanto, currently has 640 residents. However, the region of Jeollabuk-do, the least populated region, has 2 residents. Now, why does the current module have 3 elected people represent a region of only 2 residents(am I missing something here)? This module's distribution of congressional seats is absurd, considering that Kanto has thousands of percent more people than Jeollabuk-do.

Wildcards are impractical and quite frankly undemocratic. In high populated regions, these wildcards are unpredictable and as such are fiercely contested. But if one candidate from small region suddenly gets a massive amount of votes, that candidate takes away a congress seat from a populated region that once had it. Congress representation should be determined BEFORE ELECTIONS, not DURING ELECTIONS. How many times in real life elections for legislatures have seats been denied to candidates because someone from another district had more votes?

The current system should be eliminated, both for regional proportions as well as wildcard representation.

Instead of using up unpredicable seats saved for wildcards, have congress’ 40 seats PRE-DETERMINED on the 16th of each month, to prevent a sudden population shift on the 25th (Congressional Election Day). For example, of eJapan’s 1202 residents, 640 live in Kanto. THEREFORE, Kanto receives 53.4% (21) of the possible congress seats of the entire nation (based off of the persons in the region/persons in the nation x100 formula). By contrast, Jeollabuk-do represents .0016% of the total population and would have 1 seat, because the smaller regions still need representatives to...well...represent them in congress. Similar % regions should also roughly have 1 representative.

If these popluation numbers shift, then the size of that region's representatives can grow or shrink. If Jelloabuk-do suddenly represents 15.00% of the population, then it will now have 6 possible representatives in the congress.

By this new system, the larger populated regions will have accurate representation due to the % of the popuation of the nation they represent, and will not have to fight over wildcard representatives. Smaller populated regions will have more honest and contested elections in the future.

Please consider fixing this unjust system.

~Myung Kei"

Help fix corrupt congressional representation by signing at the below link:

http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/145803/base-congressional-representation-on-people-not-regions/1