Politics of Randstadt
Randstadt is a republic and free city of Dolchland, and is operated as a limited democracy, though with an old tradition of democracy that stands at odds with Dolchlandic history as a whole. The head of state is the Bürgermeister, who also acts as head of the upper house, while the head of the lower house and de facto head of government is the First Minister.
Executive power is vested in the position of Bürgermeister, with the upper house, the Meisterrat, selecting the Bürgermeister from among them. The remaining legislative authority is vested in the Gemeinderat, whose leader, the First Minister of the Gemeinderat, is selected by the body of ministers, who themselves are elected directly. Randstadt has a number of political parties which make up the Gemeinderat.
Randstadt added limited female suffrage to universal male suffrage in 1945. It then replaced this system with universal suffrage in 2003.