Exactly. I'm running into problems there--I really haven't found anything in the books referring to something like a government or an economy at all. It's not even just that they don't have democracy--they don't seem to have any kind of ruling body. Yet the police are generally respected, order is mostly well-maintained, and I haven't seen signs of any kind of civil unrest or abnormally high crime rates. Somehow, everyone manages to have a middle- to upper-class standard of living, everyone who qualifies for one has a job, no one is concerned that the police could decide anything is illegal and put someone in jail since they have no written laws...

Really, I don't see how this could work unless the majority of the population were programmed robots or something.