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For the first 6 months of its existence, New Danzilona had no official structure of governance and was largely a communal agrarian society. With a lack of any kind of decision-making bodies or persons, residents typically solved issues either democratically, through consensus, or autocratically. This lead to NDZ founder peakman2 coining the term "don't-be-a-dick-ocracy" as a way to refer to how NDZ was ran. This meant that most residents could do whatever they want as long as their actions weren't deemed dickish by the rest of the Danzilonans. All of the current residents had a lot of trust in each other, and they didn't really mess with each other or try to enforce any official laws unless someone was clearly being dickish and/or inconsiderate to someone else, resulting in a libertarian municipalist-style society.
Though this model worked for a while, as NDZ grew, residents pined for a small, formal bureaucracy to keep up with the day-to-day duties of maintaining the town. On January 13, 2014, peakman proposed such a formal structure, creating the positions of City Manager, Infrastructure Representatives, and Foreign Representatives.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Danzilona/comments/1v4cr7/proposal_my_proposed_structure_for_the_new/</ref> The City Manager was tasked with maintaining a monthly census for the city, overseeing and certifying votes and elections, and generally leading the legislative agenda during their term. Infrastructure reps would keep track of the city's properties, helping oversee derelictions and finding residents plots to build homes and businesses on. Finally, foreign representatives would act a point of contact for foreign nations wishing to do business or
=== The Danzilonan Federation ===
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