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Governments in FFVII

Invitation to speculate:

I wonder who actually makes the laws in the world of FFVII. Obviously, Shinra does whatever it likes with impunity, but I doubt the Board is interesting in spending its days debating poop-scoop bylaws or legal ages for drink and consent. Midgar has a Mayor, who is so entirely under Shinra's thumb that he's forced to exist in the top-security area of their building. So maybe Midgar has a town council, which we never see because it's not relevant to the story, responsible for passing laws and by-laws and always obedient to Shinra's will. It seems really unlikely that their world has no legislative bodies, because the end result of that isn't a well-ordered world for Shinra to dominate, but chaos. Yuffie's dad seems to be some sort of government official in Wutai; Tifa's dad was the mayor of Nibelheim; Junon, I don't know about. Bugenhagen dominates Cosmo Canyon, but he might just be a really rich eccentric old guy who happens to live there, while the Canyon itself is ruled by a council of elders.
 

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Cosmo Canyon seems to have three elders: Bugah, Hargo, and Bugenhagen above them. I’m not entirely sure it’s not supposed to be “Bugen, Hagen, and Bugenhagen.” But what that means I don’t know.
 

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It's funny, I always just assumed (maybe because of his german name) that Bugenhagen didn't come originally from the Canyon but settled there after parting ways with Shinra.

I assume so as well, with a kind of hand-wavey headcanon that maybe Bugenhagen is a title, rather than a name.
 
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