Regions should be abolished.
I still don't understand what harm the regions do. At best they provide a training ground for new members. At worst? They are inactive and boring. You don't gain anything by their abolition.
I don't think it's a good idea to have an entire section of the game that is "inactive and boring."
That is worst case. We clearly see that some regions are not inactive and provide a vibrant training ground for new recruits. Look at how the Mideast has continued (despite your grim warnings months ago) to pump out active users. I went from Assembly member to Senator and now Dan or Persepolis will join me on that same track.
And I continue to insist that you would have been active
anyway, especially if we created compensatory positions to deal somewhat with the decrease in positions brought about by the abolition of regions.