World map — data table

Representation model — Europe

This section (and the EP delegation model below it) is Europe-only — the Bundesrat bands, the 2-representatives-per-region convention, and the European Parliament delegation reform below are all Europe-specific models with no equivalent defined for the other 10 blocs yet. Building a comparable representation model for a bloc with no self-sufficiency scoring and a different constitutional starting point would be invented, not derived — so it isn't attempted here.

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Flat model — 2 representatives per region

Every congruent-mode region gets exactly 2 representatives, aggregated by country. Convention for multi-country regions (none currently in the congruent-mode set, but applied generally): representatives split evenly across the region's constituent countries — e.g. 1+1 for a 2-country region.

Bundesrat-weighted comparison

Each region's population is banded per Germany's Bundesrat formula (Art. 51 GG): ≤2M → 3 votes, >2M–6M → 4 votes, >6M–7M → 5 votes, >7M → 6 votes. The same multi-country split convention applies.

Country share comparison

Sorted by flat-model share, largest first. Top bar = flat model, bottom bar = Bundesrat-weighted.

EP delegation model — population balance across representation groupings

Amendment A2.2 (round-3 feedback) set the model: reuse the European Parliament chamber as-is, but send each representation grouping a roughly equal delegation instead of national delegations sized by degressive proportionality — target spread a max factor of 3–7 between the largest and smallest grouping's population, 10 at the outside. Today's EP is looser than that already: Germany's ~96 seats against Malta's 6 is a 16× gap by seat count, and the per-seat population gap runs to roughly 10× (Malta ≈86,000 people/seat vs. Germany ≈860,000). Amendment A3 (round-4 feedback) adds a second grouping layer purpose-built to hit that target, and Amendment A4.1 (round-5 feedback) adds a state-boundary-respecting third: data/grouping_schemes.json (documented in the methodology page) carries the original Affinity (66) scheme plus however many further schemes the current data build defines — every one of them is shown side by side below, generated from the data file rather than a fixed pair. Groupings a scheme marks factor_exempt (sovereign microstates, exclaves, and similar singletons) sit outside that scheme's factor calculation and are listed separately as special status. A scheme may additionally mark a sovereign_floor list (A4.1 — small sovereign states that cannot merge upward without crossing a state border under a no-cross-border-merge rule); those are excluded from the factor too, but labeled distinctly as "sovereign minimum" rather than "special status".