Usually, tourists were allowed only a maximum of three minutes in the viewing area before leaving for a new group from the queue to take their place, but with the identities of those in the group, they were allowed up to ten minutes here. Even regular VIPs and esteemed figures could only stay up to five minutes, but it was different for this group. This was because in their midst was the son of the vice city lord of the neighbouring Blue Springs City, who was tipped to succeed his father.
Every city-state utilised a different system of government with some being of form of democracy, an oligarchy, or a parliamentary. Apart from a theocracy and a dictatorship, almost every form of government could be utilised in a city-state. Most of the time, this practice extended down to the various cities within the city-state.
