The thing is, a ten-person senate is probably the best makeup for a legislature. We can't sustain five 10-person senates, and with smaller legislative bodies it's hard to keep interest up.
There are five at-large seats at the moment and five regional seats, right? Why couldn't we just remove two seats (one regional and one at-large) each time a region chose to secede. I'm not advocating secession or even saying you're necessarily wrong about the ideal size of the Senate. My point is simply that there is a relatively easy and logical fix if Senate size is your concern. Another hypothetical possibility would be for each region to become it's own country (with a 3-5 person Assembly as it's sole legislative body) which would eliminate the need for a federal Senate. Again, I want to stress that I'm not advocating secession; I'm merely considering how the game could adapt structurally to the secession of one or more regions.
You aren't reading Hagrid properly.
He's saying that if all of the regions were to be different countries, then they'd each have their own 10 member senates, which would mean at least 50 active players.
Now I think you could probably make do with a 6 person legislature, but you'd also need to factor in governors, justices among other things, so the point still stands.
Couldn't a five person Senate work just as well? That way you only need 25 active players. It is still a lot, but it seems much more doable.
No, that's why the regions fail.
