# WORLD FEDERATION: A THOUSAND STATES >Each of which has a thousand neighborhoods. Each neighborhood has about seven thousand people. . . . the essential foundation stone for world federation on a democratic basis consists of regionalization within centralized government.... This argument rests on the idea that world government is lacking in Moral Authority unless each delegate represents an approximately equal portion of the world's population. Working backward from an estimate of the global population in the year 2000, which is anticipated to rise to the 10,000 million mark, I suggest that we should be thinking in terms of an ideal regional state at something around ten million, or between five and fifteen million, to give greater flexibility. This would furnish the U.N. with an **assembly of equals** of 1000 regional representatives: a body that would be justified in claiming to be **truly representative** of the world's population.
Weymouth believes that Western Europe could take some of the initiative for triggering this conception of World Government. He looks for the movement for regional autonomy to take hold in the European Parliament at Strasbourg; and hopes that **power can gradually be transferred** from Westminster, Paris, Bonn, etc., to regional councils, federated in Strasbourg.
I am suggesting that in the Europe of the future we shall see England split down into Kent, Wessex, Mercia, Anglia and Northumbria, with an independent Scotland, Wales and Ireland, of course. Other European examples will include Brittany, Bavaria and Calabria. **The national identities of our contemporary Europe will have lost their political significance.**