Q. Why does the delegate cast his or her vote in accordance with the wishes of the region?

A. There are several reasons for this. The main one is that the delegate’s vote is weighted so it is worth far more than the vote of any other UN nation in the region.

Individual UN nations can vote, and their votes are worth only one vote. Conversely, the Delegate’s vote is worth the aggregate of all who endorse him or her. Currently, as I write this, Canada’s UN Delegate has 51 Endorsements. As such, his vote will be worth 51 votes. The more endorsements our delegate has, the more

Given that the Delegate’s vote is so influential, it has been constitutionally enshrined that the UN Delegate’s powerful vote will accord to the wishes of the majority in the region.

Secondly, there are several nations in Canada who are not in the UN. Some nations have primary nations who are in the UN in other regions, and as such are ineligible to have their Canadian nation in the UN. Others simply are philosophically opposed to the UN.

The off-site poll allows those players with a non-UN nation in Canada to have their say on the matter.

Colour me stupid. I've fixed the UN FAQ - I had misread the UN FAQ's onsite. Resolutions only bind UN nations. Sorry about that.

I don't mean to be contrarian, but I thought that the Jennifer Government site, in the U.N. FAQ's, made it pretty clear that non-member nations weren't affected in any way by the U.N. or its resolutions...

Which is it?

Sybillan Department of State

if UN resolutions only effect UN nations, wouldn' t it only be fair if only UN nations could have their say in how the delegate votes? That way non-UN nations can't unfairly tip the scales and have UN nations stuck with a decision they didn't want.

but I guess it doesn't matter too much, considering the landslide votes we've been having

That would require a constitutional amendment, so I'll keep things as is right now.

I personally think all nations should vote on these. I want to vote on a resolution in favour of the wishes of the majority of nations in Canada, not just the UN ones. If any nations join the UN later, these resolutions will affect them, so I'd like them to have their say nonetheless.

It's done that way so that people with 100's of non-UN nations as puppets don't skew the results.