al attitudes of the West, which would
             massively erode the rich cultural variations which exist in the world.
             A preferable system of world government, if such could be invented, would meet
             all of these objections, as well perhaps as providing a global framework
             designed to encourage the democratic possibilities of all nations. Perhaps such
             a system might look something like the one I shall now describe.
             New form of World Government - outline structure
             The new World Parliament would be a single elected chamber, possibly similar in
             format to the House of Commons in the UK but with places for up to 1000 elected
             representatives - Members of the World Parliament, or 'MWP's. The MWPs would be
             elected from national or supra-national constituencies, one per so many head of
             population (but probably with a minimum of at least one per nation, at least in
             the early decades [There are approaching 200 nation states in the world at the
             moment, with populations ranging from 50,000 - St Lucia - to 5,000,000,000 -
             China. This represents a variance of a factor of 100,000, so the disparity in
             representation could not be tolerated indefinitely. In due course some notion of
             communal MWPs, shared by small countries of reasonably alike culture, would have
             to be introduced.]). They would be subjected to re-election every 5 years. The
             world government envisaged here would have no army and would require only
             minimal administrative support. As a result, its costs would be small. It would
             not be allowed to raise any taxes, instead being funded in a similar way to that
             in which the United Nations is today, by contributions from the nation-states
             which make up its membership. Such nation-states would continue to exist in the
             new system just as they do now, forming an essential balancing power to that of
             the world government, and would be without significant loss of sovereignty.
             Membership of the new system which the wo...