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Top contenders for permanent members are Brazil, India, Egypt.
I can't see other nations not going for this, since of course they are going to try to increase their own power if they have the opportunity, but if we're going for some kind of global democratic representation in the UN then either the security council shouldn't exist at all and its powers should just be decided by normal votes, or the SC should exist but have its members chosen by percentage of the world population, or fuck it abandon all pretense and make the SC include every country with nukes because that's really what it's a proxy for isn't it.
I can't see other nations not going for this, since of course they are going to try to increase their own power if they have the opportunity, but if we're going for some kind of global democratic representation in the UN then either the security council shouldn't exist at all and its powers should just be decided by normal votes, or the SC should exist but have its members chosen by percentage of the world population, or fuck it abandon all pretense and make the SC include every country with nukes because that's really what it's a proxy for isn't it.