Gerrymandering is an embarrassment for any country which calls itself democratic.
If, say, Milosovic had suggested such a system in the former Yugoslavia, the
collective consciousness of the world would have cried "whom are you trying to
fool". The real problem is the myth that those elected somehow "represent their
district". Except in cases of pork-barrelling (which also should be eliminated),
that's probably no longer true. It might have been true back in the old days, but
it's not today. And what about the people who didn't vote for the person who got
elected? Who represents them?

The only truly democratic system is proportional representation. A party gets x
percent of the vote and they get x percent of the seats in the parliament or
whatever. It never ceases to amaze me that people deem any other system democratic.
(Of course, proportional representation must deal with rounding errors and perhaps
a threshold, but these are small problems compared to the problems of a
first-past-the-post system, only one of which is gerrymandering.)