Equestria, Constitutional or Absolute monarchy?

[Book Smarts]

maybe Granny got the favor of Celestia and thus gained an extended lifespan?

Wouldn't that be more like a curse?

[The Wandering Magus]

hmm... nah.   Granny sure seems to love being alive after all these years!

[Aurethius]

It's definitely interesting. May even come up in-game somehow. I try not to worry about 'thinking too much' about it, it's just another way to have a good time with a show.

[The Wandering Magus]

thinking too much about it, the very definition of fandom!

[Book Smarts]

thinking too much about it, the very definition of fandom!

After almost a year with this community, I would have to agree with this statement 

[The Wandering Magus]

it's why we have million-page fanfics

[Lord of Madness]

it's why we have million-page fanfics

very true... very very true...

[The Wandering Magus]

one might say my little speech in my oc page is overanalyzing

anyhow.  Diarchy is the answer.

[Silverweed]

I think that "Diarchic Theocracy" would be a fine definition...though probably the princesses don't share equal powers, but Celestia wields most of them...especially after Luna's ban 

[The Wandering Magus]

you never know; after all, when somepony is princess of the night, it's hard to really notice and understand exactly what powers she has.

[Little Judas]

Who's judge when something happens illegal happens both in daytime and nighttime.

And for that matter, is there a legal system?

[Rissian]

Well Appleloosa had a Sheriff if I recall, and the hospital had night guards. So they probably have some sort of legal system.

[Little Judas]

Both are quite different, maybe there is a provincial legal system or even every town for themselves.

[The Wandering Magus]

Maybe Appleloosa is a Shire in the Kingdom of Canterlot?

[Little Judas]

I've read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, but none of them really explain the concept of a shire.
Assuming you still live in Middle -Earth, can you give an explanation?

[The Wandering Magus]

In Old English times, an administrative district, consisting of a number of smaller districts ('hundreds' or 'wapentakes'), united for purposes of local government, and ruled jointly by an ealdorman and a sheriff, who presided in the shire-moot (shire court). Under Norman rule, the division of England into shires was continued, the AF. counté, Anglo-Latin comitatus, being adopted as the equivalent of the English term. At the present day shire is rare in official use, but is current as a literary synonym for county (chiefly restricted to those counties that have names ending in -shire). The counties of Wales, and most of those of Scotland, have -shire as the ending of their name, but the word is now rarely employed in speaking of them. The counties of Ireland were often called shires in the 16-17th c., but the use is now obsolete.

[Little Judas]

Going to read that a second time when I get home and hope to understand it the third time.

[The Wandering Magus]

xD sorry

[Blues-Music]

Crime rate is low in equestria however there is a legal system.There are royal guards everywhere.Not to mention in appleloosa you can see a sherrif house.

[Book Smarts]

Ponyville is a town, and I think Appleloosa is a colony of sorts, mainly for just recently thriving with the alliance between the buffalo