The Gary Free State Regime is the name retroactively given to the ruling regime of Gary Free State. The body was loosely based on the mayor-council government system of the city of Gary (City). The regime was instituted to establish order amid a massive influx of migrants from the Midwest seeking citizenship by lottery into Chicago.
As an emergency organization, the powers of the mayor were a bit extreme. The situation is going to be unstable no matter what when a city quintuples in size in the matter of a decade, so the solutions tended toward authoritarian.
Jaivon Townsend (Gary) ended the Regime and created Gary (City-State).