En Allemagne, la Sarre, qui compte un million d'habitants, a trois voix à la chambre haute du parlement allemand, alors que la Rhénanie-Palatine, forte de 18 millions d'habitants, dispose de six voix.
In Germany, Saarland, with one million inhabitants, has three votes in the upper house of the German Parliament, whilst Rhineland-Palatinate, with a population of 18 million, has six votes; thus the German system is hardly fair.