Personally I think a random system generated by the game would be best so as everyone starts with the same level of information.
I would go for a large quadrant dense system with medium number of warp points, probably WPM Balanced from the list of available maps.
2000 racial points is OK with me as well as long as everyone has the same number to spend so as not to give any one player a huge advantage/disadvantage from the start.
Neelix
