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>Do you not have representatives at all in Switzerland?
We have, but first of all, almost none of them is a professional politician, Switzerland has a tradition of "part-time politics" and most politicians have jobs on the side. For example, many politicians are actually CEOs of small businesses or farmers, who only do politics as a side business.

>Do you have national votes on literally every piece of legislation?
Not on every piece but we have national votes on everything that is important. The smaller the political entity, the more often you vote though. So on the cantonal and communal level we literally vote about 95% of all pieces of legislation. In my small town in northern Switzerland I voted on 12 issues this year alone, for example if we want to renovate some school building for an X amount of money, if women should have the right to equal pay (got rejected by the voters), if stores should be opened for longer in the evening (got rejected by the voters) etc. Our representatives are almost irrelevant.