Docs: the municipal layer — 57,185 records, cities documented
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README/roadmap/data-model updated for the city nodes: entity counts,
the places tree layout, and the roadmap pivot from 'mint local bodies'
to 'fill the municipal skeleton.'

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## What's in here today
37,667 markdown records, every one schema-validated:
57,185 markdown records, every one schema-validated:
| Entity | Count | What it is |
|---|---:|---|
| **Person** | 13,329 | Current officeholders — federal, all 50 state legislatures, and Florida down to the municipal level. Federal members carry their bioguide ID, leadership roles, and committee seats. |
| **Body** | 233 | The institutions themselves — the U.S. House, the Senate, 49 committees, 181 subcommittees, each with its leadership. |
| **Candidate** | 2,494 | Everyone running for federal office in 2026, from FEC filings. |
| **Jurisdiction** | 10,390 | Every U.S. county (3,131), all 435 congressional districts (Census demographics on 363), and every state legislative district 4,927 house, 1,897 senate — the nationwide skeleton, filled with data. |
| **Jurisdiction** | 29,908 | Every U.S. county (3,131), all 435 congressional districts (Census demographics on 363), every state legislative district (4,927 house, 1,897 senate), and **every incorporated municipality in the country — 19,513 cities, towns, villages, and boroughs** — keyed by Census place GEOID, with officeholders attached where the mirror has them. |
| **LegalText** | 11,221 | U.S. Code Titles 111 and 52 — General Provisions through Bankruptcy, plus Voting and Elections — mirrored section-by-section from the official OLRC XML release current through Public Law 119-100. |
The mirror answers, with receipts: *who holds power, who runs the institution, who's running, what each place is made of,* and *what the law says* — and, through git, *what changed.*
The mirror answers, with receipts: *who holds power, who runs the institution, who's running, what each place is made of — down to the city,* and *what the law says* — and, through git, *what changed.*
## How it works