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In terms of structure, local government in Atrassica resembles the situation in [[Devalōmara]] and [Neighbouringstateland]. Below the countyship level there are three classes of municipality - city (''sar''), borough (''vestra''), and village (''dasa'') - as well as civil townships and off-reservation indigenous villages with more limited powers and functions. However, countyship governments in Atrassica are significantly stronger than those in Devalōmara, and are responsible for important services such as education, public health, road maintenance, and a great deal of policing, as well as overseeing local economic development. Like other federal subjects in Punth, Atrassica has codified the special status of Settlement Movement communities, many of which are located in the island's interior. Although not municipalities or civil townships, settlement trusts are considered civic bodies, have special tax status, and have their affairs governed by a special Coöperatives Court.

The majority of the population are colonists, and most of the colonial population have family histories on the island dating at least three generations back, though many are more recent transplants from Great Kirav or elsewhere in the Federacy. The indigenous population is officially enumerated at 22.8% of the total, though the actual number of Atrassicans with substantial indigenous ancestry is much larger, as persons of mixed descent with Coscivian or other colonial ancestry in the male line are considered Coscivians, as are some indigenous communities that adopted Coscivian lifestyles and cultural norms early in the territory's history. Most of the older Atrassican families have ancestral roots in [[Cascada]], [[Ilfenóra]], [[Devalōmara]], [Statenexttoit], the North Coast of Great Kirav, and [[Æonara]]. Accordingly, Æonaran Coscivian and Arnórian Coscivian are the most spoken Coscivian languages in the territory after Kiravic.