> It makes no sense for Fiji to be awarded the same number as India. That makes sense, since it's reasonable to assume that high-quality employees are a percen

> It makes no sense for Fiji to be awarded the same number as India. That makes sense, since it's reasonable to assume that high-quality employees are a percentage of the population. Having a global fixed number of immigrants rather than a per-country pool would also work: If A has a population of 10, B has a population of 20(with similar quality percentage), and the pool is 6, then A gets 1/2 the amount admitted as B. If A's population rises to 20, then they'd get the same amount as B. So it would be proportional to population within the pool. The only reason to prefer per-country fixed limits is if you wanted diversity. The meaning of "diversity" here is approximated by "variance of sampling immigrants' original home government from a uniform distribution over all governments".