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>this isn't a city or a county

Yes it is, it's both of those things. Consolidated city/county governments are not a weird oddity that no one knows how to handle, they're not super common but they're not governmental arrangements from Neptune, either

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Perhaps not from Neptune, but they don't exist in any of the 3 states I have lived in - so I was surprised.

Coming from the state of Virginia, I might say that they're a perfectly standard way to govern.

VA independent cities aren't that, though. They're what they say on the tin: Cities without a county, they're not a nominal county and city both existing on paper but governed as one

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