Politics
Politics of the Pitcairn Islands takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic dependency, whereby the Mayor is the head of government. The territory's constitution was the Local Government Ordinance of 1964 until the new Constitution was introduced in 2010. The Pitcairn Islands has the smallest population of any democracy in the world.
The government's administrative offices are in Auckland, New Zealand (which shares the Queen as its head of state).
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