Below is an archived out-of-character discussion about the position of Yingdala in elections for the Security Council. For the current rules of the Security Council, please see the World Congress Information thread.
When the original boundaries were drawn to determine the four seats of the Security Council, Yingdala was placed alongside most of Seleya in Seat C. Although there is no formal position on which countries are part of which continents, most players consider Yingdala either part of Dovani or part of both continents. I don't think anybody really would argue that Yingdala is not part of Dovani at all. All of the other playable countries in Dovani (e.g. Seko and Lourenne) were placed in Seat D.
I have acknowledged in another post that the current seats system is at best quasi-continental but that doesn't mean we cannot try to improve it to better reflect our intuitions about which countries should be competing against one another. Liu Che, who has been responsible for representing Yingdala in the Security Council, has expressed the view that the country should be moved into Seat D to reflect its historic, cultural and geographic connection to Dovani. A few other players have signalled support for this change.
Re-locating Yingdala would provoke a few potential problems. The first is that it the seats would be less balanced numerically, with Seat C only containing 13 countries and Seat D containing 15. An easy way to fix this problem would be to move Vorona, a country without the same connection to Dovani, to Seat C in a straight switch.
Another potential issue is that it might upset the existing balance of power within the seats. Seat D already contains four of the nine most powerful countries in the game according to the military rankings, this would be adding another country with substantial history as a world power to the seat.
The other concern is a logistical one, I don't know exactly what the mechanism would be to add Yingdala to the options for Seat D and remove it from Seat C but it seems like this would probably involve Yingdala losing its current vote tally.
A few questions, then. Should Yingdala be moved to Seat D? If yes, should Vorona replace it in Seat C? How could this be achieved fairly without disadvantaging Yingdala in future Security Council campaigns?