A novel method to structure the world in population entities and application [3] towards European countries and regions

A novel method is presented to describe population entities. It consists of two steps. First the structure of a population entity is described in terms of sub entities using a logarithmic distribution. This allows the uniform description of the World in continents, continents in countries, countries in provinces, provinces in cities, etc. Secondly the logarithmic distribution is simplified. This reveals the main structural differences and similarities at a certain level (countries in terms of provinces for example) and opens a window to study scale effects (comparing for example the description of a province in cities and the world in terms of countries). The novel method is applied to the description of the EU and its member states. The five cultural dimensions of Hofstede are reduced to three and a new sequential analysis gives three major EU-regions. A parameter of the novel method is related to one of these three cultural dimensions`. The results are discussed in terms of sustainable development of the EU, its regions and it member states and sub-societies