On Hyperpowers

[Sonic Glitch]

Now, that's something behind which I can see the logic. To play devil's advocate, though, let me ask this: what do you do about the disenfranchisement that this would cause among the smaller members? Sure, they can be shouted down or forced into line, but that's pretty much the antithesis of the founding philosophy of the UN.

I would ask them to contribute more then, in the form of troops for UN intervention, for donation to other countries or by money for the administrative.

The issue then is that, as Mikey pointed out, these are smaller members. They may not have the resources (manpower or financial) to contribute more than they already do. Unless you want to make it proportional? I.E. Take what countries donate as a percentage of what they can donate and the greater the percentage the greater the vote? That's how my Residence Hall wins things for getting the most people to turn out to hall events. If we're encouraged to get Freshman to attend events, well we're a dorm of only about 40 people so numerically we will never have as many people turn out as other residence dorms. However, since we are only 40 people, percentage wise we have more freshman show up than the other dorms.


Did that make sense?

[Tyyr]

You'd probably have to run something where everybody gets one vote for 192-196, can't find a good agreed upon number but there are 192 UN members so we'll go with 192. Then we'll portion out another 180 votes by troop numbers or money donated. Frankly I'm not that wild about the percentage of GDP thing. You could get some small country donating a stupid amount of its GDP or armed forces to the UN and running the show for a year. Raw dollars or troop numbers would be my preference. Do we really want Albania deciding UN policy because it sent 5,000 troops out of their 14,500 on a UN relief mission?

With 180 votes apportioned by commitments the remainder of the world still has a strong voice in how things go, but those pulling their weight have more say than Iran.