Re: CHAT: postcodes

John Cowan writes:
 > Stephen Mulraney scripsit:
 >
 > > > They answer only to the Duke of Normandy for the time being (viz.
 > > > Elizabeth II) whose ducal will is expressed through her Privy Council,
 > > > and their own States.
 > >
 > > What are their own states?
 >
 > The local legislatures of Jersey and Guernsey (which latter includes not
 > only the Isle of Guernsey, but Sark, Alderney, and Herm as well) are known
 > as the States.  See http://www.gov.je and http://www.gov.gg respectively.
 >
Indeed, let us not forget Sark, described on its website as "the last
bastion of fuedalism in the western world".

http://www.sark.gov.gg/