Aussie PM wants to demote the French in the U.N. Security Council

[Bereta_Eder]

One trolling secion at a time, or else get me a replacement

[Imran Siddiqui]

Where have all the trolls gone?

[Ben Kenobi]

8. Canada: 677 31 20987

Intolerable!
I protest the ranking of Canada.

We should multiply GDP by total landmass to get a better idea of significance.

[Getao321]

TAKE MICHIGAN O GREAT CANADA!!!!

Michigan is so boring...help us by conquring us and making the world actually realize we exist!

[Odin]

The Macedonia crap is BS, historic Macedonia in N. Greece (the Mt. Olympus area, west of Thessalonica) When did the Slavic "Macedonians" pull the name for northern Greece out of thier @ss? South Serbia would of been better.

[Ben Kenobi]

United States 9,629,091 101710
China 9,596,960 11600
Canada 9,976,140 6770
Russia 17,075,200 5270
Brazil 8,511,965 4251
Japan 377,835 1800

There you go.
Russia represents Continental Europe.
Do notice the US is 10x as strong as anyone else by this measure

[Frogman]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Why doesn't Europe deserve two spots? There is a lot of power concentrated there.

If you give out seats based on power, then the US deserves at least two. That's not going to happen, so why should Europe get two?

Actually, the UK vote is more like 2 for the US than it is 2 for the EU.

[Drake Tungsten]

Actually, the UK vote is more like 2 for the US than it is 2 for the EU.

Not always, but either way it is unfair to the rest of the globe. The over-representation of the West may be a good thing, but it's hard to defend in terms of fairness.