It will occur to the discerning player that since my character is in fact<em>the king of the city</em>, it is my job to determine how the city government operates.  Because my character set it up.  I am more than happy to write within reason about how it functions for those other players who take an interest in it (I'm a lawyer by trade and have a background in poli sci, so designing imaginary governments is fun for me - like playing with legos.)  But, I try to keep that sort of thing to a minimum as it is in fact deadly dull for almost everyone but me.<br/><br/>If TGT has any particular requirements, or elements of the civil authority have proven resistant to reform, I'm sure he'd have let me know back when I was chatting with him about what the city's laws are like.