A NEW Atlas Parliament (Founding Thread)

[homelycooking]

I will make the map. Does the southern border need to line up with the US' northern border, since Cyrencia is located where Canada should be? Should some major cities, then, be located on the Great Lakes?

[homelycooking]

Here is the map. The twist is that Cyrencia is settled from the Pacific side first.
I took some liberties with the demographics. Let me know if you like them or not.



FONTAINE
Capitol: Enterprise
Population 8,344,018
Percent Anglophone: 89%
Percent Francophone: 6%
Population Growth: 4.5%

DELEON
Capitol: Deleon City
Population 5,938,192
Percent Anglophone: 76%
Percent Francophone: 8%
Population Growth: 2%

VALENTINE
Capitol: Moraine City
Population 4,023,545
Percent Anglophone: 90%
Percent Francophone: 5%
Population Growth: 1%

WESTSNOW
PAYS-DE-NEIGE-DE-L'OUEST
Capitol: Wells Harbour
Population 456,880
Percent Anglophone: 63%
Percent Francophone: 36%
Population Growth: 2.5%

NORTHERN FONTAINE
FONTAINE-DU-NORD
Capitol: Port-du-Roi
Population 1,943,500
Percent Anglophone: 9%
Percent Francophone: 89%
Population Growth: 1%

MEREDITH
Capitol: Greenville
Population 2,353,746
Percent Anglophone: 93%
Percent Francophone: 2%
Population Growth: 5.5%
 
ATLANTICA
Capitol: New Vauxhall
Population 376,886
Percent Anglophone: 98%
Percent Francophone: 1%
Population Growth: 0.5%

TOTAL POPULATION: 21,030,941

[homelycooking]

The map is good, but DeLeon should be switched with DeLeon City.

Fixed.

Now how many members does the House of Equals have, and how are they elected? I can draw up single-member constituencies, since I think that's what you were getting at with your original post.

Does Cyrencia have a directly-elected executive, or is it a parliamentary system?

Note: In your original post, Dr Cynic, you specified that

Population is rougly 2\3rds of the U.S.

This is not so with my statistics, but it seems a little ridiculous that Canada/Cyrencia could support two hundred million people.

[homelycooking]

Here's a possible constituency map, with latest election results in which the SDP/PDS regained control of the House of Equals. If you like it, there will be more statistics to come.

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2302/cyrenciaconstituencies2.png

Atlantica
Reform 2
Social Democrats 0
Regional Rights 0
Independent Labour 0

Meredith
Reform 4 (1 loss to SDP, 1 gain from SDP, 1 loss to ILP)
Social Democrats 6 (1 loss to Reform, 1 gain from Reform)
Regional Rights 0
Independent Labour 1 (1 gain from Reform)

Valentine
Reform 6 (4 losses to SDP)
Social Democrats 11 (4 gains from Reform)
Regional Rights 0
Independent Labour 0

Northern Fontaine
Reform 0
Social Democrats 1 (1 gain from RRP)
Regional Rights 8 (1 loss to SDP)
Independent Labour 0

Westsnow
Reform 2 (1 gain from SDP)
Social Democrats 0 (1 loss to Reform)
Regional Rights 0
Independent Labour 0

Fontaine
Reform 16 (8 losses to SDP)
Social Democrats 22 (8 gains from Reform, 1 gain from ILP)
Regional Rights 0
Independent Labour 0 (1 loss to SDP)

DeLeon
Reform 6 (3 losses to SDP)
Social Democrats 16 (3 gains from Reform, 2 gains from ILP)
Regional Rights 0
Independent Labour 3 (2 losses to SDP)

TOTALS
Reform 36 (1 loss to ILP, 16 losses to SDP, 2 gains from SDP)
Social Democrats 56 (16 gains from Reform, 2 losses to Reform, 1 gain from RRP, 3 gains from ILP)
Regional Rights 8 (1 loss to SDP)
Independent Labour 4 (3 losses to SDP, 1 gain from Reform)

PREVIOUS ELECTION (2008)
Reform 51
Social Democrats 38
Regional Rights 9
Independent Labour 6

[homelycooking]

Province-based or national constituencies?
List PR, STV, mixed system?
Droop, Hare, St Lague quota?
Terms of office?

[homelycooking]

Province-based or national constituencies?
List PR, STV, mixed system?
Droop, Hare, St Lague quota?
Terms of office?

Province based.

List PR

St. Lague

Every 4 years (Though the calender can be sped up game wise and the PM has the option to call an early election)

OK, so what more do we need to get started?

[homelycooking]

Applying the Sainte-Lague method for seat allocation to the provinces with 70 seats, I get the following representations in the HoE. I gave minimum representation of 2 seats to Westsnow and Atlantica.

Fontaine 24
DeLeon 17
Valentine 12
Meredith 7
Northern Fontaine 6
Westsnow 2
Atlantica 2

Perhaps the next step is to have interested participants choose home states, a Cyrencian persona and start an election campaign for the House of Equals?

[homelycooking]

Jean-Philippe Rocheleau
RRP/PDR
North Fontaine
Age 51