  This paper discusses the size distribution, - in economic terms - of the
Italian municipalities over the period 2007-2011. Yearly data are rather well
fitted by a modified Lavalette law, while Zipf-Mandelbrot-Pareto law seems to
fail in this doing. The analysis is performed either at a national as well as
at a local (regional and provincial) level. Deviations are discussed as
originating in so called king and vice-roy effects. Results confirm that Italy
is shared among very different regional realities. The case of Lazio is
puzzling.

Physics and Society;Economics