Each village has a leader chosen by the people of that village. Between them these leaders choose one of their number as the overall leader of all the people in the valley.
Although they have lost the use of writing the people still keep an oral list of previous leaders. Often they give their leaders an epithet. These are some of the past leaders:
Suragi the happy
Farel the fearful
Krul the outsider
Lalike the short
Shisha the goat
Imfeste the laugher
Gabidi the guilty
Shasti the rock
Chenem the great
Asid the worried
Karich the weak
They have a seven-day week although there are no discernable weekends – each day seems the same and each family might have rest days on different days of the week from the next. Their naming of the days translate as oneday, twoday etc.
They do not split the year into months but just keep a record of the weeks, so they might record a past date by saying ‘threeday of the 20th week of the year 1,120’.