The intent of this system is to allow PCs to be able to select town rulers. While the system looks superficially like democracy it's much closer to an oligarchy - only PCs get to vote, reflecting their greater influence in the world (whether as warriors, traders etc) compared to their NPC friends. The system will take some tuning etc. For now, the salary portion ('Appointing officers' below) isn't implemented but will follow in the near future.