Government Formation: Revenue Zone Cabinet

A government can draw its entire majority from a contiguous belt of states while excluding entire regions. Reapportionment intensifies that risk: under any plausible delimitation, a Hindi-belt sweep can govern without holding a single seat from any of the five southern states. The design problem is to guarantee regional voices in Cabinet without imposing a hard formation threshold that hands hostage power to a precisely sized minority [@cite_belgium_541_days].