It's not Chan Santa Cruz's government that confuses me (though they did have some odd ideas, particularly the theocratic nature of the Cult of the Talking Cross), so much as the religious offices revolving around the may cycles of the Postclassic Yucatan. The organization of Yucatec Maya states at that time is easy enough to understand, but then they each seemed to adhere to a unified set of symbolic seats of power and other offices based around calendrical cycles. Lots of different cycles, and lots of different rules regarding these official seats as well as holy titles and whatnot. Even they don't seem to have been able to make up their minds about who was supposed to be seating what katun or may or whatever some of the time, and yet somehow the system was incredibly long lived in that Chichen Itza for example continued receiving tribute well into the 1700's, despite falling as a city in the 1200's. The Spanish were apparently unaware of what you could call the secret governments of the Maya in that region for a very long time.Chan Santa Cruz's government is weird enough 9 Fanged Hummingbird doesn't totally get how it worked.