code: def representatives(self, count=None, sorting=False):
          payload = {}
          if count is not None:
              payload['count'] = self._process_value(count, 'int')
          if sorting:
              payload['sorting'] = self._process_value(sorting, 'strbool')
          resp = self.call('representatives', payload)
          representatives = resp.get('representatives') or {}
          for k, v in representatives.items():
              representatives[k] = int(v)
          return representatives