Silas Hammond is the current mayor of Lentonville, Virginia, and the mayor-for-life of the town, running a very laissez-faire management of the town and adopting a very libertarian style of economics. Whilst admittedly one of the more honest politicians of the post-war world, Hammond is notably rather flexible with his moral code - drug-running and slave-trading isn't exactly uncommon, with Hammond and those partaking in such criminal activities coming to the understanding that the former would ignore the latter as long as no trouble came of their actions. Such actions have made Hammond fairly popular with the likes of Raiders and Slavers, but rather detested in the eyes of those such as the Regulators and Lentonville's own citizenry.