JerryMangling is the art of drawing electoral maps without the usual human nonsense. Instead of letting politicians doodle dragon-shaped districts until they win, we hand the crayons to an AI panel and tell it: "Play fair, follow the rules, don’t get clever."
The rules (called *principles*) are written by humans beforehand. Things like: "keep towns together," "don’t split rivers in half," "everyone gets about the same number of neighbours to argue with." If people hate the results, they don’t whinge about the lines on the map — they change the rules. This saves whole decades of lawsuits, fistfights, and cartographic migraines.
The name "JerryMangling" is, of course, a Hitchhiker’s improvement on gerrymandering. Where the latter meant politicians twisting maps for gain, the former means AI tidying up our global mess, producing districts that look less like salamanders and more like places humans actually recognise. As an added bonus, with Assemblies only 180,000 souls per representative, the stakes of any one boundary are too small to cause planetary-scale riots. Which is nice.