[ExI] Space governance

[Anton Sherwood]

How about this.  People are grouped into neighborhoods of 60.  Each 
draws lots to choose one representative to a council of 60.  Each 
council, in turn, draws lots to choose one representative to a higher 
council of 60 ...

I pick 60 as the magic number so that each member's fellow councillors 
are no more than half their Dunbar number, to reduce a tendency to see 
the council as their community.

A government for the present world population would thus have five tiers 
of councils.

I wonder though, is it better for a legislature to have a highly 
composite number (https://oeis.org/A002182) of seats, or a prime number? 
  Is there anything in the poli sci literature?


On 2020-9-25 09:48, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
> One drawback is that, by the time you get to 100,000,000 people, even 
> the "upper"/per-habitat legislative body will have hundreds of members, 
> and the "lower"/per-census legislative body will probably have 
> thousands.  There will be pressure to group up, maybe to create a 
> Senate-of-Senate with a population no more than 100 where all the 
> members can at least try to speak to each other on a one-on-one basis. 
> But then, jockeying to be part of that body will strive to represent 
> some large minority to the exclusion of the rest of the collective.


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