Saint Lyaos's government structure is fairly simple. The smallest administrative unit of Saint Lyaos is the house. A house is not just one residential structure and its inhabitants; rather, a house can be better understood as a family and its holdings. Houses self-determine who is a member of their house. Holdings, a broad category, are a matter of common consensus. A house's holdings likely includes a few residential structures, grazing areas, and a chusa herd.
Each house belongs to a town or village, the smallest of which is a mere 3 houses. Each town or village belongs to a county. While houses and their towns or villages work together as a semi-autonomous entity, and thus may have local assemblies to determine laws, collect taxes, and organize events, counties are purely administrative divisions of the land with no associated governing body.
Counties are used to determine Common Assemblage lot. The Common Assemblage is Saint Lyaos's parliament or senate, and is the nation's only national legislative body. Assemblage representatives are selected by lottery, and represent the county they reside in. Depending on the size of the county, 2-10 representatives are selected from each to form the Common Assemblage. However, a loophole exists to facilitate a kind of "voting." Citizens have the option of designating a voluntary substitute, someone who agrees to serve in the Assemblage should that person be chosen. In this way, some individuals are able to amass multiple entries for the Assemblage lot, thus increasing their chances of being selected.
The Assemblage elects a head of state from amongst themselves, known as simply the Lead. The Lead has no special power over other representatives, but is obligated to maintain peace amongst the Assemblage and facilitate constructive dialogue.
The Assemblage is empowered to make decisions for Saint Lyaos in many areas. However, towns and village reserve a certain amount of autonomy over their areas, and are most likely to make these decisions by direct vote. Assemblage decisions must be determined by majority.
Additionally, Saint Lyaos has a system of courts.
Saint Lyaos maintains no formal standing army.