Shannon Theory and the US Senate

A good illustration.
The Senate come from a very disparate group of states. The voter to Senator relationship, hence varies according to the rank of the state itself. The New mexico rank allows Domenici to deliver smaller goods more often, fewer steps between him and the retail voter. Not so for Babs, my Senator. She has to deliver large goods over infrequent intervals, she is one or two more steps removed.

So, scale everything, and we have the Shannon relationship between -iLog(i) for i = 2 states, the -iLog(i) within an integer. They have to set up a production system in the Senate to deliver goods at the differential rate and size. There is probably a rank three network in the Senate, and it takes a ton of elites to run it.