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Proportional representation goes a long way of increasing fairness. Societies are not split cleanly by geographic lines. You can have a lot more diverse ruling class by coalescing single person electorates into at least 30 electorates per district.

But what would also be needed is to increase the total numbers of representatives by a whole factor at least. USA is one of the least represented democracies in the world (only India is worse). Even China has more representatives per capita.

This also extends to local elections where cities as big as Seattle or San Francisco only have 9 and 11 members in their respective city counsels. There is no way to represent such big and diverse cities with this few seats. In comparison Oslo has 59 seats in their city council.



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