It does.
I was tempted to reply to say that here we leave most of those decisions of the role of leadership to each of the member states. Then the District governments decide among themselves how things should work within the District. And then at the very top, the President sends around the Black Eagles, who are absolutely not involved in the deaths, in purely coincidental traffic accidents, of anyone who might be a threat, and plant evidence that they were spies working with the Caldari.